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What Ukraine wants right now is DJIs, not Bayraktars. So it's a bit of reverse, consumer drone tech is superior to military tech when you take price and availa
by dist-epoch 3y ago
What Ukraine wants right now is DJIs, not Bayraktars.
So it's a bit of reverse, consumer drone tech is superior to military tech when you take price and availability into account.
- m4rtink 3y agoFor frontline use, sure. But they definitely also want cheap long range cruise missiles. Its already hard for them with Russia using the Iranian Shahed scooter engine drones, but I don't think Russia will be really able to defend its territory against similar drones once Ukraine gets its cheap long range drone production going at speed.
- thriftwy 3y agoThe issue for Ukraine that even it gets the same capacity, it will not exactly be able to bomb the Lancet factory in Elabuga. Russia can keep essential stuff out of range. That's also what it did in WWII.
- LegitShady 3y agothat doesn't mean there isn't stuff to bomb, stuff that they don't want to spend long range weaponry like ATACMS on.
- LegitShady 3y agoIf ukraine could get a bunch of shahed clones themselves they'd happily use the on russia. They'd also get smaller drones too. They're both useful.