[cududa]

I wasn’t previously aware of Ukrainians flying drones directly into helicopter’s rotors, but that does make sense.

I obviously know very little about battlefield armaments so forgive the potentially stupid question - but have drones made combat helicopters obsolete?

[tetromino_]

> have drones made combat helicopters obsolete?

Which drones?

Helicopters are vulnerable to small quadcopter drones when landing and taking off. This limits some traditional uses of helicopters (anything that involves landing in enemy territory becomes much more risky) but still leaves others (shooting missiles at surface targets).

Helicopters are very effective at shooting down large fixed-wing drones.

Helicopters are very effective at sinking drone boats without air defenses, but are in turn very vulnerable to drone boats equipped with SAMs.

[general1726]

That's like asking if bullets made infantry obsolete. As long as there is a role for attack helicopter on the battlefield, then it is not obsolete, just more vulnerable during its missions.

[BoiledCabbage]

> That's like asking if bullets made infantry obsolete

You sure it's not asking if bullets made spears obsolete"?