Sudan's civil war — now in its fourth year — began as a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. It has evolved into something else. Something more precise, and in its precision, more terrifying. It has become a drone war. The United Nations put a figure on it in May. Between January and April of 2026, drone strikes killed at least 880 civilians in Sudan — more than 80% of all conflict-related civilian deaths in that period.