We're undeniably in the age of the drone, modern militaries have very little cost effective counters to small mass produced drones, but that wont last, better detection and interception technology like interceptor drones, lazars, specialized ammunition, better EW are being developed and slowly rolled out, the Ukraine war will be viewed like how we view world war one, a strange inflection point of bad and outdated strategy meeting new more powerful weapons. the drone will eventually be just another tool in the arsenal instead of a wonder weapon,
>>65033255yes but as ww1 aviation is in its retarded phase, we will get ww2 aviation tier drones soon with entires cities terrorized by massive armadas of drones instead of random singular terror attacks of today. it will keep improving as the counter measures, exactly like aviation, its not that revolutionary though, already had drones in the form of missiles or guided munitions
>>65033269the better drone counters get the bigger drones will have to get in order to withstand better EW, fly higher to avoid interceptors and specialized ammunition,, as the drones get bigger they will lose effectiveness, we're already seeing this in ukraine
The whole strength of drones is that they're cheap. If you have to start investing in all sorts of crazy tech to keep them viable you might as well just use a missile.
Drones like prop planes are ultimately going to be COIN assets or theyll be unmanned aerial craft that are already in use
>>65033255Drones, from quadcopter FPVs to plane-sized UAVs will remain a part of warfare.UGVs, too.
>>65033269>>65033255I think the limitations of missiles themselves reflect on drones; they can cause flashy explosions and wipe out units, but neither are decisive weapons unto themselves.
>>65033483Isn't the warhead to fuel(battery) ratio also better?And higher loiter time enables mission profiles missiles don't cover.
