@TrevorGoodchild @DW2 @sickburnbro “everything can be destroyed” is king of the modern battlefield. On both sides. An FPV drone sees where you stashed your HIMARS? It’s gone. Planes on the runway have been destroyed by FPV drones. No one talks about the F-16s at all because they all probably got destroyed by Iskanders in the first day thanks to intelligence. You leave the hatch on your tank open a drone can fly into it. There are flamethrower drones, remotely operated MG nests, tons of artillery. It’s only going to get better too. Americans take pride in their military, rightly so, but so did the Russians. It doesn’t change the fact that warfare has changed fundamentally and is changing on the battlefield to this day.
The Russians had to *earn* a victory like Kurakhova and Selydove. It took 2 1/2 years of figuring out what works to rapidly advance against an enemy. Glide bombs are good? Cool, the Russians have those too. Short of stealth being a wunderwaffe, which is unlikely because it’s not the 90’s anymore, Americans are going to find themselves in trenches in a near-peer war. They’re going to be under constant fire and the last thing they may hear is the buzz of a drone. Faggots in the pentagon do not acknowledge this reality. It will not be about money it will be about having something worth dying for. The average Ukrainian is much more patriotic and nationalist and they are creaking under the pressure. When there are waves of drones everyday destroying infrastructure, how strong will the American military be then?