Explore 78 scenarios based on documented battles, from Karabakh and Kyiv to Port Sudan and Kidal. Compare simulated decisions with and without drones, then review costs, outcomes and civilian harm.
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FPV attack drones cost about $200 to $1,000 each ( CSIS, May 2025 ). Newer T 90 tanks cost about $4.5 million ( Newsweek, January 2023 ).
Thirty seconds from a real simulation run: briefing, drone flights and the review. Demonstration commander, accelerated playback; no leaderboard result is submitted.
Read the situation, choose a side and pick which drones to send. Three learning objectives open every scenario.
Give orders on the map. Enemy units stay hidden until your recon finds them, and jamming, weather and air defence change what your drones can do.
The after action review shows what you could see, why each strike had its odds, and the civilian toll beside the real one. Five questions close the run.
The after action review places your objective, time, losses, cost exchange and civilian harm beside the published historical outcome. Compare the decisions you made with what happened in reality.
Long range one way attack drones reach an oil refinery about 400 km behind the front and try to put its three processing units and its tank farm out of action before the air defence around the town can stop them.
Break through the old line of contact and take Jabrayil. CSIS wrote that Azerbaijani drones ‘were the center of attention in this war’.
Human Rights Watch documented unlawful attacks on populated areas by Armenian forces and apparently indiscriminate attacks by Azerbaijani forces during the 2020 war. These reports concern civilian protection across the conflict, not proof from this simulation of any particular crime.
These reports describe the wider conflict. They do not establish that every crime occurred in this modeled battle.
Studying or commanding a side does not endorse its conduct. Drone Front never lets players target civilians, hospitals, schools or places of worship. Civilian harm from simulated strikes is counted and shown in the debrief, including nonzero harm. Civilian massacres are never playable operations. Designated terrorist forces and Wagner remain computer controlled; Gaza war events remain excluded from play.
Stop a road bound armoured column on the Irpin river north west of Kyiv with small teams, drones and artillery.
The UN Commission found war crimes by Russian authorities, including killings, torture and sexual violence, and a small number of violations by Ukrainian forces. Its March 2023 findings are context, including for later scenarios.
These reports describe the wider conflict. They do not establish that every crime occurred in this modeled battle.
Studying or commanding a side does not endorse its conduct. Drone Front never lets players target civilians, hospitals, schools or places of worship. Civilian harm from simulated strikes is counted and shown in the debrief, including nonzero harm. Civilian massacres are never playable operations. Designated terrorist forces and Wagner remain computer controlled; Gaza war events remain excluded from play.
Ukraine had almost no warships. RUSI found that its sea drones, with shore based missiles, denied Russia control of the sea.
The UN Commission found war crimes by Russian authorities, including killings, torture and sexual violence, and a small number of violations by Ukrainian forces. Its March 2023 findings are context, including for later scenarios.
These reports describe the wider conflict. They do not establish that every crime occurred in this modeled battle.
Studying or commanding a side does not endorse its conduct. Drone Front never lets players target civilians, hospitals, schools or places of worship. Civilian harm from simulated strikes is counted and shown in the debrief, including nonzero harm. Civilian massacres are never playable operations. Designated terrorist forces and Wagner remain computer controlled; Gaza war events remain excluded from play.
Hold the trench line in front of Kostiantynivka while both sides fly thousands of drones a day.
The UN Commission found war crimes by Russian authorities, including killings, torture and sexual violence, and a small number of violations by Ukrainian forces. Its March 2023 findings are context, including for later scenarios.
These reports describe the wider conflict. They do not establish that every crime occurred in this modeled battle.
Studying or commanding a side does not endorse its conduct. Drone Front never lets players target civilians, hospitals, schools or places of worship. Civilian harm from simulated strikes is counted and shown in the debrief, including nonzero harm. Civilian massacres are never playable operations. Designated terrorist forces and Wagner remain computer controlled; Gaza war events remain excluded from play.
Provisional reconstruction. Lead the reported assault on Lashio or delay it as the regional command defender. The three periods follow the opening attacks, reported airport control and final headquarters claim.
The UN Myanmar Mechanism's 2025 report describes investigations of civilian killings, aerial attacks and torture since the 2021 coup, with evidence concerning security-force perpetrators. These country-wide investigations do not establish responsibility for every strike in Lashio or Laukkai.
These reports describe the wider conflict. They do not establish that every crime occurred in this modeled battle.
Studying or commanding a side does not endorse its conduct. Drone Front never lets players target civilians, hospitals, schools or places of worship. Civilian harm from simulated strikes is counted and shown in the debrief, including nonzero harm. Civilian massacres are never playable operations. Designated terrorist forces and Wagner remain computer controlled; Gaza war events remain excluded from play.
Make Armenian air defence switch on, find it, and destroy it before your strike drones can fly freely.
Human Rights Watch documented unlawful attacks on populated areas by Armenian forces and apparently indiscriminate attacks by Azerbaijani forces during the 2020 war. These reports concern civilian protection across the conflict, not proof from this simulation of any particular crime.
These reports describe the wider conflict. They do not establish that every crime occurred in this modeled battle.
Studying or commanding a side does not endorse its conduct. Drone Front never lets players target civilians, hospitals, schools or places of worship. Civilian harm from simulated strikes is counted and shown in the debrief, including nonzero harm. Civilian massacres are never playable operations. Designated terrorist forces and Wagner remain computer controlled; Gaza war events remain excluded from play.
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Azerbaijan’s drone campaign in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Command Azerbaijan’s drone campaign across three battles of the 44 day war: breaking Armenian air defence, pushing through the southern front, and the climb to Shusha.
Your drone stockpile and budget carry from one scenario to the next.
Four years of drone warfare, from Kyiv to Kostiantynivka
Six scenarios in order, from the defence of Kyiv to the drone kill zone around Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast. What you can buy changes each year, and so does what the enemy fields against you.
Your drone stockpile and budget carry from one scenario to the next.
Tick Ranked run in the briefing. Every ranked run uses the same fixed settings, so results are comparable. When the run ends, the website replays your orders with the same engine and the official data, and only the replayed score goes on the board. Top 50 for each scenario and side; a new week starts every Monday.
Recon quadcopter
1 drone
Recon aircraft
18 drones
FPV attack drone (pilot flown)
1 drone
Fibre optic FPV
1 drone
Loitering munition (hunter drone)
14 drones
Strike drone
11 drones
Decoy
2 drones
Long range attack drone
5 drones
Bomber drone
7 drones
Interceptor drone
1 drone
Sea drone
2 drones
Drone Front stays at the level of strategy: what each kind of drone does, what it costs, and how weather, jamming and air defence affect it. It is built only from published open sources, and uses the real names of the forces involved. Forces on the US Foreign Terrorist Organizations list or the UK proscribed list, and the Wagner Group, keep their real names but are only ever computer controlled. It does not explain how to build, modify or operate drones.
