Some interesting quotes from the article:
”The life of impunity of small, very simple drones over the battlefield is a snapshot in time,” Schill said. “Right now it’s being exploited, that’s clear, and we have to protect ourselves. Today, the sword, in the sense of the aerial drone, is powerful, more powerful than the shield. The shield is going to grow.”
“First-person view drones currently carry out about 80% of the destruction on the front line in Ukraine, when eight months ago those systems weren’t present, according to Schill. The general said that situation won’t exist 10 years from now, and the question could be asked whether that might already end in one or two years. Schill cited the example of the Bayraktar drone, “the king of the war” at the start of the conflict in Ukraine but no longer being used because it’s too easy to scramble.”
Link here
https://old.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/1dltwxg/small_drones_will_soon_lose_combat_advantage/
Posted by Shakhata
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I’m no military pro, but i keep hearing bayrakars are ineffective in the Ukrainian war, if true, considering drones were the majority factor for us losing in 2020, it makes me want to pull my hair on our incompetency of not being prepared even though we knew they had drones.
I wonder if the technology of war will become such a stalemate for both sides during conflicts – that war will become fighting with swords again and hand to hand combat. Like in the movie/book Dune where they had personal shields on their bodies and guns were also ineffective. Interesting to speculate I guess.