Drones are overrated. People need to realize that the WWI reenactment by the two low skilled armies is NOT the be all, end all template for future war.
The drone attackers would get annihilated on a battlefield where the USAF had air supremacy/dominance.
Same for the pronouncements about the end of tanks. Uke retards sending out random tanks piecemeal in platoon sized groups with no support is a very different thing than the 1st Armored division and it’s supporting formations attacking you under USAF cover.
Drones have uses, but it’s amateur to pretend these DGI toys are the future of war.
Kinda surprised that Russia hasn’t tried a different approach.
In my view, with these combatants, drones are an effective defensive tool to protect contested ground.
If I was Russia and if I wanted to steer away from the traditional Russian offensive approach (attrition), maybe try something different.
If you think of this conflict as feudal, and Ukraine is the castle, what do you do? Siege.
Do things that make the castle uninhabitable (taking the nuclear option off the table). Destroy their dams, water treatment and storage facilities, power generation and distribution, roads, bridges, railways, etc. Move Ukraine back to 1825 and let the people inside the castle turn on each other in order to survive. Wait a year or so, then just walk in.
Conserve your military and dig in to protect against the drones and whatever counterattack Ukraine could attempt. All offensive action at this stage should only be focused on moving Ukraine back to 1825, not further ground advances.
When it is obvious what your strategy is, then start the propaganda communication to tell Ukraine that as soon as Zelensky is gone and Ukraine starts dealing in good faith to end the conflict on reasonable terms, the “1825 strategy” will stop.
As well, the army is deploying anti-drone systems and developing better ones as well. This will probably result in a technology war. Drones get hardened, anti-drones get better and the cycle will continue. The anti-drone systems are
OK for now. As the drones get hardened against EMP-type attacks, they also get much more expensive. If your GPS and SATNAV are jammed and your video feed is scrambled, you have to fall back on inertial guidance. And then accuracy suffers.
Tell that to the ruskies. Drones are wiping their modern army off the face of the earth.
“The drone attackers would get annihilated on a battlefield where the USAF had air supremacy/dominance.”
With our missile equipped drones.