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U.S. drones are too expensive for Ukraine to deploy at scale (www.wsj.com)
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This is a perfect illustration of how US military industry is optimized for soaking up as much government funding as possible instead of producing reliable weapons that can be manufactured at scale.

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[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Yup, and from what I recall LPR and DPR militias did most of the infantry fighting at the start of the war. I guess technically they were fighting since 2014, but it was a frozen conflict for a while.

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