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quadcopter manufacturing has been dramatically increasing over the last year to the order of 10k+/mo on both sides with no sign of slowing down (i believe it's
by nyolfen 2y ago
quadcopter manufacturing has been dramatically increasing over the last year to the order of 10k+/mo on both sides with no sign of slowing down (i believe it's actually much higher than this but can't find the source i saw a few weeks ago); your argument seems to butt up against this reality
- dgroshev 2y agoCan you please elaborate which part of the comment you are refuting?
- nyolfen 2y agoif it was not more effective than existing options, both sides would not be scaling production and deployment at an unparalleled rate
- dgroshev 2y agoBoth sides suffer from shell and ATGM shortage and inability to suppress/destroy air defences, which drives suboptimal adaptations. An FPV drone assembled in a garage from aliexpress components and a tesla battery [1] with a submunition extracted from a cluster shell [2] is more effective than a single old howitzer with 10 shells per 2km of frontline [3], but it's a pretty low bar. The 10% estimate is not mine, it's from a legitimate expert who regularly goes to the frontline in Ukraine. [1]: An amusing anecdote from that podcast: Tesla battery packs are a big source of batteries for FPV drones. The packs can be sourced for next to nothing from totaled Teslas, and individual cells are very reliable. [2]: https://www.twz.com/ukrainians-are-cutting-open-u-s-cluster-shells-to-make-drone-munitions https://www.twz.com/ukrainians-are-cutting-open-u-s-cluster-... [3]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/17/ukraine-frontline-ammo-russia-war/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/17/ukraine-frontline-ammo-...