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Tanks, Troops in the Open Are Hit Within 10 Minutes: Ukraine Official (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I think the whole concept of air superiority is also under question.

How do you have air superiority when hundreds of drones can be launched without airfields or any real infrastructure required?

How do you gain it when SEAD type missions would be constantly needed against hundreds of drones which cost a fraction of the cost of the munitions used against them?

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Well, there's still the infrastructure to actually distribute the drones to where they're deployed.
So if I can use cruise missiles to take out your air defenses, and long range bombers to take out your airfields, and then start hitting supply caches and truck convoys, you might have a hard time actually getting the drones to the areas where they're needed before their targets have moved on.

Or not, I don't know. I'm just curious how it pans out in a more asymetric conflict.

[-] chowder@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

How do you gain it when SEAD type missions would be constantly needed against hundreds of drones which cost a fraction of the cost of the munitions used against them?

Shit dude, there are a lot of possibilities out there.Airlauch your own drone swarm to give it extra range. Produce drones with further range, better accuracy, and better explosives. Electronic warfare to stop enemy swarms. That's just off the top of my stoned head.