When the United States first fired a missile from an armed Predator drone in Afghanistan on November 14,2001, it was clear that warfare had forever changed. During the two decades that followed, drones became the most iconic__16__ of the war on terror. Highly sophisticated, multimillion-dollar US drones were repeatedly used in targeted killing campaigns. But their use worldwide was__17__ powerful nations. Then, as the navigation systems and wireless technologies in hobbyist drones and consumer electronics__18__ , a second style of military drone appeared—not in Washington, but in Istanbul. And it caught the world’s __19__ in Ukraine in 2022, when it proved itself capable of holding back one of the toughest militaries on the planet. The Bayraktar TB2 drone, a Turkish-made aircraft from the Baykar corporation, marks a new __20__ in the still-new era of drone warfare. Cheap, widely available drones have changed how smaller nations fight modern wars.