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Yeah, well, the Ukrainian army is on record saying they'd rather have more artillery shells than more drones.

• rdtsc 2y ago
  They work well together, so give them both.
• recursive 2y ago
  Artillery shells are not manned vehicles.
  • bitwize 2y ago
    But their delivery mechanism may well be.
    • recursive 2y ago
      > may well be Another way of saying this is "may well not be".
  • hollerith 2y ago
    I was responding to, "entering into the era of drone-vs-human warfare," not defending manned vehicles.
  • sc__ 2y ago
    yet
• HPsquared 2y ago
  That's another instance of quantity beating quality. It's the same type of thing.
• ponector 2y ago
  That means only they need more shells at the moment than drones. Ukraine has capacity to produce enough FPV drones.
• Animats 2y ago
  Both work together. The drone finds the target. The artillery then destroys the target.
• taneq 2y ago
  I’d guess they can reuse the drones most of the time?
  • ponector 2y ago
    Only reconnaissance drones and few heavy bombers. Mostly they use kamikadze FPV drones in pair with Mavic for surveillance.
• matusp 2y ago
  I am not surprised, drone warfare today requires a lot of people and a lot of manhours, and it does not scale that well. Several guys are often moving the equipment on foot to get as close to the frontline as possible, so that the pilot can have a few shots at delivering a pretty small explosives to a target they might not even found. On the other hand, few conscripts can jump on a Grad and start shooting rockets on a whim.