Ukranian forces calibrate a “Baba Yaga” heavy lift drone in 2024. [АрміяІнформ/Wikipedia]

The Drone Age (Part 2): “A deadly kill zone unlike anything warfare has ever seen.”

STORY BY RICHARD FOOT

This is the second of a two-part series examining the impact that drones and autonomous weapons are having on modern warfare. Read Part 1.

On the front lines of Ukraine’s war with Russia, death is delivered not by artillery, tanks or machine guns, but via the spinning rotors of hobbyist-style, explosive-laden drones, lethal enough to kill a section of infantry or destroy an armoured vehicle.

Welcome to the battlefield of the 21st century, where, according to Francis Farrell, a reporter with The Kyiv Independent, “drones fly further and further with every month, and closer to the front line, reality breaks down into a deadly kill zone unlike anything warfare has ever seen.”

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Herman Mol shares his experiences as a Dutch teenager during the Second World War at the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum in 2010. [Courtesy Herman Mol]

WW II Hunger Winter survivor recalls the liberation of the Netherlands

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

It was May 1958 when Dutch-born immigrant Herman Mol began his Canadian dream. Though the war had been over for 13 long years, and while Mol himself had managed well over that time, the Netherlands was still a country in healing.

Career opportunities had brought him across the Atlantic to the shores of Halifax. From there, he was bound for Ontario and, in due course, a promising future as a newspaper linotype operator and typesetter.

The new Canadian thus settled into life among many of those who, more than a decade earlier, had played a significant role in Holland’s liberation.

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