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Ukraine has digitized its fighting forces on a shoestring 

Ukraine has achieved a cut-price version of what the Pentagon has spent decades and billions of dollars striving to accomplish. Kyiv’s improvised web of drones, fighters and weapons, linked through satellite communications and custom software, is giving its soldiers a level of intelligence, coordination and accuracy that has allowed the initially outnumbered and outgunned forces to run circles around Russia’s massive but lumbering armies.