Although the equipment will still need to be maintained in the field, which means needing lots of technically trained people unless they want to just leave thou

Although the equipment will still need to be maintained in the field, which means needing lots of technically trained people unless they want to just leave thousands of these littered around for the simplest breakdown. Could be useful in magnifying the power though if a small number of well trained people, or a small ruling caste. Less vulnerable to losing power due to lack of military manpower.