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> "But the Ukrainian conflict has certainly put this thing on the map, and despite heavy competition I think AeroVironment is going to be finding a whole bunch
by photochemsyn 4y ago
> "But the Ukrainian conflict has certainly put this thing on the map, and despite heavy competition I think AeroVironment is going to be finding a whole bunch of new customers soon. And the US military is going to learn a whole lot about what exactly these things can do."
Small wars are like marketing campaigns for military-industrial suppliers around the world. They also drive up commodity prices. Since Dec 2021, average share prices for the oil majors and the defense contractors have increased from 25-50% depending on the company in question, as of last month.
- hef19898 4y agoAdded benefit a lot of old stock, from ammunition to whole systems, finally hets ised and expended and needa replacement. Training alone only consumes so much over a given year.
- nine_k 4y agoThis particular war, with a frontline of many hundreds of kilometers, and about 75k personnel losses on the Russia's side alone, is not a small war. This is more personnel than the US lost in Vietnam.
- mlyle 4y ago> This is more personnel than the US lost in Vietnam. In about 1/30th the amount of time.
- strictnein 4y agoThat's 75k wounded and killed, not 75k deaths. Still, it is a staggering number of injury and death in such a short time. > "75,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the field" [0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-suffered-more-75-000-163815380.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-suffered-more-75-000-1...
- ncmncm 4y agoSupposedly between 20,000 and 40,000 Russian Federation troops killed. Of course many of them, maybe most? are from former SSRs other than Russia. Russia is getting better at spotting with drones. I gather they just managed to wipe out a fleet of M777s that parked too close to Russian artillary. Or maybe it was rockets?