[Yo-Yo]

Close to fifteen years of drone use over Iraq and Afghanistan, you know that the Russkis have been sniffing out our drone signals and developing countermeasures. May even have tested a few in the field, which would explain the high loss rate.

[Trumpinator]

The Russians are the only nation that came close to landing a man on the moon. They are more than capable of inventing signal jamming technology - in fact - it probably is easy for them.