>Is drone warfare a result of the Soviet Union’s collapse?Many pubblications are making the case that drone warfare emerged because of lack of armies capable of generating large highly trained mechanized formations in the European theatre like the soviet union used to and therefore are reverting to drones because they are cheap and easily aviablehttps://warontherocks.com/2026/02/is-the-age-of-drones-really-the-age-of-poor-maneuver/
Thats dumb. The US military is consistently one of the largest militarys on the planet going back to the end of WW1, and they've been angling toward smart munitions for decades. Regardless of whether its in a large mech unit or a small infantry squad, nobody wants to die, and the best way to not die is outsource the danger to unmanned disposable assets.
>>64909556Anon this was meant to explain why war in Europe why war in Europe looks like WWI with drones while everywhere else conflicts look like sharp wars of maneuver largely decided by airpower
>>64909532Pretty much, yeah. But it's not a bad thing. The formerly united soviet socialist republics just suck cock at warfare as it turns out. Before the drones appeared they were shit and they will continue to be shit even after drones are neutralized by whatever technological breakthrough happens next.
>>64909556>Nobody wants to dieZiggers sure seem to like to
>>64909556>nobody wants to diedeath impulse>>64909572there is no significant cultural distinction between northern former soviets and south eastern former sovietsthe only real difference is how much foreign support they have
>>64909566Sharps wars of maneuver? On what fucking planet are the Syrian Civil War, Myanmar Civil War, Sudanese Civil War, Israel-Hamas War, or the previous Ethiopian War a sharp war of maneuver? The only one I can think of that was over relatively quickly and saw real maneuver was the Azerbaijani-Armenia one, who are bother former Soviet Republics anyway
>>64909575There is clear cultural distinction because russians have a death cult and ukranians do not.
>>64909583somehow my wallet isn't getting any lighter from reading your unsubstantiated claims
>>64909532>Many pubblications are making the case that drone warfare emerged because of lack of armies capable of generating large highly trained mechanized formations in the European theatre like the soviet union used toPeople forget that this war did not start in 2022 but 2014. Ukraine and Russia had been building fortifications for 8 years, it is no wonder this turned into a slog.>are reverting to drones because they are cheap and easily aviableReverting? That is an odd word to choose. Drones have been in widespread use for 20 years and using massive amounts of small commercial drones in a peer conflict is quite new. I will say this though, static lines have made quadcopter hunting much more viable than a faster war of maneuver would but I would still put a lot of that down to mining and fortifying in the 8 year stall.
>>64909581>Syrian Civil WarWe did see rapid maneuver when nato was involved against ISIS>Israel-Hamas WarHamas spent decades preparing fortifications also we saw rapid offensives through Israel several campaigns for example Lebanon or they being able to freely bomb Iran and operate on Iran’s soils.>US VenezualaStill rapid war of maneuver The pattern is that when a great power attacks a smaller country they do are able to enact maneuvers even if drones are aviable
>>64909608>fortificationsIt's not just fortifications, since you could've literally just go around them, if it was the sole issue.It's a combination of:- fortifications;- transparent battleground (recon drones allow you to know of enemy movement before it even happens);- cheap attack drones;
>>64909532I mean half-and-half. The USSR at its height would have rolled into Kyiv before the government could mount any counter attack. Likewise, a well oiled Russian army would take over key cities before there is time to mount counter-measures. It's right that this is in part due to the stagnation of the front lines and then people having effectively all the time in the world to construct drones. But they are also really cheap, and effective, and exploit gaps in our traditional air defense networks. They assume something is big and flying fast, meanwhile these fly low and slow. All armored vehicles will need little turrets to shoot these down, and there needs to be a new layer of air defense to deal with them.
>>64909532>Is the blitzkrieg really just a result of poor trenchbuilding?equally stupid statement.
You cannot manouver when your vehicles get blown to bits by cheap and abundant precision munitions the second they show themselves on the battlefield.
>>64909930>The USSR at its height would have rolled into Helsinki before the government could mount any counter attack
