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quadcopter manufacturing has been dramatically increasing over the last year to the order of 10k+/mo on both sides with no sign of slowing down (i believe it's actually much higher than this but can't find the source i saw a few weeks ago); your argument seems to butt up against this reality


Can you please elaborate which part of the comment you are refuting?


if it was not more effective than existing options, both sides would not be scaling production and deployment at an unparalleled rate


Both sides suffer from shell and ATGM shortage and inability to suppress/destroy air defences, which drives suboptimal adaptations. An FPV drone assembled in a garage from aliexpress components and a tesla battery [1] with a submunition extracted from a cluster shell [2] is more effective than a single old howitzer with 10 shells per 2km of frontline [3], but it's a pretty low bar.

The 10% estimate is not mine, it's from a legitimate expert who regularly goes to the frontline in Ukraine.

[1]: An amusing anecdote from that podcast: Tesla battery packs are a big source of batteries for FPV drones. The packs can be sourced for next to nothing from totaled Teslas, and individual cells are very reliable.

[2]: https://www.twz.com/ukrainians-are-cutting-open-u-s-cluster-...

[3]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/17/ukraine-frontline-ammo-...




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