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> What is preventing Russia from building these things in the thousands and I don't know patrol the skies of eastern ukrain with it? You need to build them, yo

> What is preventing Russia from building these things in the thousands and I don't know patrol the skies of eastern ukrain with it? You need to build them, you need to train operators, you need to deploy said operators. They are not autonomous. A better question is, if Russia's electronic warfare capabilities are so amazing, how are the drones even able to operate? We'll probably find out that the capabilities were either overstated, or not deployed nearly enough to matter. Pretty sure some AA battery money went to Yacht upkeep.

blagie 4y ago
My suspicion is that the Russian weapons and munitions are fine, but that there isn't any coordination, integration, management, or planning. If I'm sitting at an S400, and I see a radar blip, I probably don't know if it's GA, commercial aviation, news helicopter, Russian military plane returning, or a Ukrainian drone. I just know something's flying. This is all speculation based on how I expect the governments there work. I suspect that if the Ukrainians wanted Russian munitions, they'd just need to wander over in Russian uniforms, and pick some up...