China’s High-Altitude Stealth Drones: Dominating Surveillance, Electronic Warfare, and Air Combat

Introduction The 2019 drone strikes targeting Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities represented a pivotal moment in military history, revealing that even nations armed with advanced air defense systems can be vulnerable to low-cost, asymmetric unmanned aerial threats. This operation starkly demonstrated how a swarm of inexpensive drones and cruise missiles can overwhelm conventional…