>The Armenians just lost a lot of territory in Nagorno Karabakh they considered their own - to an enemy who had suicide drones. IMHO while it's true their enem

>The Armenians just lost a lot of territory in Nagorno Karabakh they considered their own - to an enemy who had suicide drones. IMHO while it's true their enemy had 'suicide drones' (which are actually loitering munitions, but 'suicide' makes it sound so much more evil) that wasn't a deciding factor - they also had Turkish drones that didn't require self detonation to work. Azerbaijan put a lot of videos on youtube showing them bombing and pursuing groups of Armenian soldiers with those drones, not the suicide drones. The suicide drones were anti material weapons against mobile air defense and other harder targets. The azeris even used old (trash) AN-2's turned into drones to get a response from Armenian air defense systems so that loitering munitions like the herop could identity air defense systems with minimal danger. We are already in this race. Everyone is, even if they won't acknowledge it. Without anti air/anti drone technology no ground force is safe. This isn't new or unique to drones - it's the truth of every war where air dominance occurs. In the Six Day War Israel destroyed most of Egypt's air force on the ground in its opening strike, and when Egypt tried to retreat from the Sinai they used their air force to bomb the retreating units with impunity. The remnants of Egypt's air force couldn't fight against an intact air force so they flew support sorties but were overall ineffective. No drones required. It's just gotten cheaper to do.