> man, i'm a Russian. Good for you, hope you didn't take it personally. It wasn't supposed to be an insult, it's just the way it is. That's my personal point o

> man, i'm a Russian. Good for you, hope you didn't take it personally. It wasn't supposed to be an insult, it's just the way it is. That's my personal point of view, of an italian who has spent years in Russia and lived in Magadan, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Nojabersk, Irkutsk. > yes. Tell this to millions of USSR soldiers who was squashed by German tanks and aviation until USSR was finally able to ramp up the production of comparable technology in comparable numbers. This never happened. The USSR was never able to "ramp-up". They "made it" just moving whatever they could east and wait for winter. And thats where no german aviation/tank could keep up with the battle, isolated, without fuel, without supplies. > The same way today - manned tanks and aviation is going the way of cavalry 80 years ago. This is the point I heavily criticise. Our current technology isn't that great and we are VERY far from the point where an unmanned vehicle will keep up the fight with any manned one. No matter what. Drones are slow and laggy, GPS and network are unreliable, robots (in general) can't deal with harsh conditions - where the "human machine" actually shines showing the results of million of years in evolution. I guess ours are just different point of views. > The drones will quickly become much better, much smarter and much cheaper. A one old "dinosaur" like F-15 or Su-27/35 (or even F-22) when faced simultaneously with 10-20 stealth drones able to go transonic or even supersonic with computer speed of reaction, able to continuously pull 10g+ without blood leaving the brain/retina/etc... and each firing an air-to-air missile almost simultaneously in choreographed attack pattern - should we make bets whether the pilot of the attacked plane would be able to execute all the necessary anti-missile maneuvers successfully ? :) This sounds a lot like out of a movie.