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Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie... by whatever1 on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:31PM (#43155580)
When you spread the risk across 10M units you are better off compared to placing all of your bets in one super fancy unit. Remember in the Ukrainian war, Russia took out most of the Ukrainian planes in their hangars, before even they took off.

I totally agree with you that drone swarms is not a silver bullet, and likely some effective adversarial strategy will be developed(jamming, attacking motherships etc), but the point is that airplanes are not as important as they were in the past. Ukraine is still standing with no real air presence.

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Re:It is no longer safe to move our governments and societie... by int_19h on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:48AM (#43191702)
The battlefields in Ukraine is how we know the real cost of those drones - they managed to push it down to around $300/unit for FPV ones, which are the primary armor killers.
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