The changes brought by modern drone warfare are absolutely shocking, and in a way no one from the Establishment wants to admit. In the West, for two decades "drone warfare" has meant total impunity incinerating brown people all over the world with skyborne murderbots.
Those days are over. As some indication, we can take two data points from vastly different conflict zones:
In the Red Sea, one of the types of anti-ship drones used by the Houthis costs about $2,000 a piece. The air defense missiles used to shoot them down cost about $2,000,000 each. I suppose no one in the US military is much concerned about that--there being an infinite supply of dollars--but those complex units are manufactured painfully slowly.
Over in Ukraine, a Spetnaz operator from a drone battalion was interview by "Texas" Bentley last fall:
In the embeddeb video interview, he more or less casually mentions:
And also you can drop grenades and bombs. Two weeks ago, one of my comrades killed and wounded 87 Nazis. Two weeks, could drop.
Those are Rambo++ numbers. And if you've seen video of toy quadcopters dropping grenades into trenches full of guys that never saw it coming, it's all too believable.
If only these toys had cost $25M each, the US military would have been far more interested.
The changes brought by modern drone warfare are absolutely shocking, and in a way no one from the Establishment wants to admit. In the West, for two decades "drone warfare" has meant total impunity incinerating brown people all over the world with skyborne murderbots.
Those days are over. As some indication, we can take two data points from vastly different conflict zones:
In the Red Sea, one of the types of anti-ship drones used by the Houthis costs about $2,000 a piece. The air defense missiles used to shoot them down cost about $2,000,000 each. I suppose no one in the US military is much concerned about that--there being an infinite supply of dollars--but those complex units are manufactured painfully slowly.
Over in Ukraine, a Spetnaz operator from a drone battalion was interview by "Texas" Bentley last fall:
Russian Spetsnaz Operator Explains How Drones Are Changing Modern Warfare (TID 10/7/2023)
In the embeddeb video interview, he more or less casually mentions:
Those are Rambo++ numbers. And if you've seen video of toy quadcopters dropping grenades into trenches full of guys that never saw it coming, it's all too believable.
If only these toys had cost $25M each, the US military would have been far more interested.
just wait until they use those cheap drones to take out a Domestic Right Wing Extremist Ruby Ridge Waco style.