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by inglor_cz 899 days ago
Drones don't make advanced tech useless, but sure as hell they make land attacks extremely bloody.

The Ukrainians are skilled soldiers, at that moment with a lot more practice than anyone else in the Western world; yet they cannot flush the mobiks out of their dugouts. Same in the opposite direction.

The Houthis are now holding world trade hostage with similar drones and rockets. I would certainly like to see them defeated by the US military might, if only as a reassurance that a tribal army in sandals cannot dictate conditions to the rest of the world. But I am far from certain if it is possible. Air Force is a huge hammer and such drone teams are small midgets in a desert.