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Yeah, that makes a ton of sense.
Armchair general opinion here, but basically: It pretty much doesn't matter how much armour you pile onto something- it adds weight, fuel costs, and reduces speed, and all the armour in the world will still only last a limited amount of time against powerful explosives specifically designed to destroy armour. The most basic thing about armoured vehicles is doing something in the time that that armour buys you. And to do stuff, you need speed, firepower, and a good optics system.
The Bradley has those three things in spades. Even if it's not the most heavily armoured vehicle ever seen, it's really fucking cost effective, WAY easier to maintain with Ukraine's more limited resources than the US army, and versatile as hell. It uses the time that it has before the armour inevitably fails exceedingly well.
What a lot of people against help to Ukraine don't realize is that the whole country is basically the cheapest Q&A testing facility the US has ever gotten access to. By giving away and monitoring produced vehicles, they strengthen US production while rapidly iterating better equipment. All while frustrating Putin.
That's a really interesting and probably accurate take!
I'm really curious to see all the unexpected innovations that come from this war. ...not that I feel good about the human cost.
Here's one that's happening before our very eyes and very rapidly. Drone and drone warfare.
We're seeing not just how the technology evolves but also how the strategies in their usage are changing.
That makes sense. It definitely all makes me uneasy. We really don't need further depersonalization of killing.