I can only imagine the footage Russia has when using drones on Ukraine.
The drone footage is horrific. Suicide drones and drone drops kill dozens of people _every day_
Then you have how horribly equipped Russia is for their injured troops, there is over 70 clips of Russian troops taking their own lives after losing a limb.
Last of all you have the drone boats, which have sunken half of the Russian Navy, so much so they have to keep their navy away from Ukraine.
If there is a next World War, it will be decided by drones and electronic warfare.
> Russia doesn't want to destroy more than necessary, Russia doesn't want to kill more than necessary
This is nonsense. Russia is suffering loss ratios unseen since low-tech civil wars in Syria, South America and Africa. (The principal ones being killed are Russians.) Moscow is indifferent to killing; it’s being neither excessively brutal (now, mass graves are a different story) nor conservative.
Russia is fielding its best kit in Ukraine. It’s being destroyed by decades-old NATO hardware. Its overseas weapons sales have unsurprisingly cratered, which jeopardises its ability to finance future production and development.
The only silver lining is Moscow is increasingly falling into its role as a Chinese suzerainty. While not great for America, that’s at least stabilising; post-Soviet Russia has not shown itself to be a responsible sovereign power.
> equipment, not really
Russia lost most of its elite forces in the opening days of the war, which were an unmitigated disaster. It’s losing armor at replacement rates and ammunition faster than replacement, which is why it needs to import more. It’s become apparent Russia has lost the ability to conduct combined-arms warfare, which makes it more akin to a nuclear-armed Iraq than former superpower.
Naval losses, similarly, are above replacement, which is hilarious as Ukraine has no navy.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 22.4 ms ] threadI can only imagine the footage Russia has when using drones on Ukraine.
The drone footage is horrific. Suicide drones and drone drops kill dozens of people _every day_
Then you have how horribly equipped Russia is for their injured troops, there is over 70 clips of Russian troops taking their own lives after losing a limb.
Last of all you have the drone boats, which have sunken half of the Russian Navy, so much so they have to keep their navy away from Ukraine.
If there is a next World War, it will be decided by drones and electronic warfare.
This is nonsense. Russia is suffering loss ratios unseen since low-tech civil wars in Syria, South America and Africa. (The principal ones being killed are Russians.) Moscow is indifferent to killing; it’s being neither excessively brutal (now, mass graves are a different story) nor conservative.
Russia is fielding its best kit in Ukraine. It’s being destroyed by decades-old NATO hardware. Its overseas weapons sales have unsurprisingly cratered, which jeopardises its ability to finance future production and development.
The only silver lining is Moscow is increasingly falling into its role as a Chinese suzerainty. While not great for America, that’s at least stabilising; post-Soviet Russia has not shown itself to be a responsible sovereign power.
> equipment, not really
Russia lost most of its elite forces in the opening days of the war, which were an unmitigated disaster. It’s losing armor at replacement rates and ammunition faster than replacement, which is why it needs to import more. It’s become apparent Russia has lost the ability to conduct combined-arms warfare, which makes it more akin to a nuclear-armed Iraq than former superpower.
Naval losses, similarly, are above replacement, which is hilarious as Ukraine has no navy.