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> Mortars miss; suicide drones don't. TBF based on Ukraines own statistics drones miss a lot as well.
by meheleventyone 11mo ago
> Mortars miss; suicide drones don't.
TBF based on Ukraines own statistics drones miss a lot as well.
- kragen 11mo agoI guess getting shot down is just as good as missing.
- meheleventyone 11mo agoAnything where you don't hit the target is a miss so yes. Non-exhaustively and off the top of my head; running out of battery, electrical fault, losing signal/break in the fibre optic cable, shot down and operator error are all potential causes of a miss.
- jacquesm 11mo agoNo, they miss a lot. ~5:1. But that still makes them cheaper than artillery rounds and they do a lot of damage and can do both recon and the subsequent attack with the same package, and without delay.
- kragen 11mo agoHmm, I didn't realize. Do you mean ~5:1 is better than the miss ratio of artillery rounds, which makes them cheaper? Because I think a small FPV drone is about US$600 and an artillery round is about US$800, but that isn't a fact caused by the miss ratio.