Which 40s and 50s tank have they brought to war
I am not saying that RECENT russian slowdown is due to drones. I am saying the other way round. RECENT lack of drone success is due to the fact that Russians have stopped advancing and have deployed their AD cover. Let them try to push a tank column to Kyiv from Belarus and again you will see the similar story.
Its one thing to defend a static target with a multilayered AD cover. Its totally different thing to cover a massive convoy using QRSAMs. That is a much harder problem because you do not really have multi layered AD then. Its just QR SAMs.
We do not even have an adequate AD cover for our Army bases in Kashmir. Remember, those Pakistani were able to guide their TV ammunition all the way till the front lawn of our army HQ there. That too in broad daylight and with forewarning.
Quite the opposite. Drone have changed the GROUND warfare by making tanks highly vulnerable. Our cold start doctrine is no longer valid. If we attempt it, it is very likely to be defeated by a ukraine like defence using same TB2 tactics. Pakistan already has quite a few TB2s.
T-54s.
They can't bcoz this time Russians won't repeat the mistake of going without any credible AD as they move either will move with well fortified AD cover like both short and medium range
AhhhT-54s.
Russia is dusting off antique tanks from the 1940s, monitor group says, as its losses mount in Ukraine
T-54s, first manufactured in 1947, were seen being transported from deep storage in Russia's far east, the Conflict Intelligence Team said.uk.sports.yahoo.com
From Hibernation to Humiliation? Russia Brings T-54 Tanks Out of Retirement
The CIT team has obtained photographs of a train transporting military vehicles from Russia’s Far East. We identified the vehicles...notes.citeam.org
And how will you personally see anything in war ground? You are not going to go there, right?
Their loitering munitions weren't developed during the war so they used or imported Iranian system but later they developed and operationalized lancet
Less than 150 but you are right economy of scales helps reducing the price but using F-35 a benchmark at this stage is foolish.Nothing will get to the scale of US military industrial complex and hence similar cost reduction for other military jets is improbable. US is producing 180 F-35 a year. There is a reason Rafale is expensive even with export orders.
Even at best it comes down to 25 million + ammunition, it still won't be equivalent of stealth fighter. There is still human decision making involved and those sat comms links are vulnerable. Satellites are vulnerable as well, so if you don't have a huge ass satellite fleet (like US or China), and you go against an enemy with anti sat capabilities your comms infra will be destroyed.
Human pilots practice for these kinds of scenarios where sat comms are taken out. US has such exercises with its closest allies (UK, Canada and Australia) every other year.
DOD “Red Flag” exercise ushers in GPS jamming season across West
War games in the sky, at sea, on ground block GPS to add a dose of reality.arstechnica.com
There is a reason US airforce decided to keep humans in the loop with manned unmanned teaming. The forward deployed manned fighter jet can communicate with the drones without sat comms. So, until the drones become fully autonomous to even engage targets, this manned-unmanned teaming was developed as compromise.
So, I will wait till there is some actual data.
Like TB2 is great for fighting against irregular forces and low tech forces, but as we saw in the Ukraine war, even though they are somewhat useful (esp. for surveillance), they are not a game changer and ultimately the war came down to artillery duels.
Bro that 30 million gives you a freakin LO aircraft with decent A2A capabilities.
Given that Russia can field a HEAVY platform like Su-30-SM for 30-35 million dollars, I do not see any reason why a drone like Kizilelma can not be manufactured in numbers for 10 million dollars. None of their components are noval. None are too expensive. Significant part has a overlap with their existing platforms like TB2.
Look at the no of flankers(Russian)flying in the world.
Again just a pic on ground but nowhere I have seen them being used be it telegram or twitter nor getting destroyed
Su-75 price is bogus bro
Given how popular Turkey is in drones market, I do not see a reason why they will not pick up the market that should have gone to Russian drones. Russia is not going to field drones anytime soon.
Here is from twitter, the same picture came from twitter originally, the article even acknowledges that :
Yeah I have mentioned derailing
Remember my dear, you keep on replying and you were supposedly an old member. LOL!
Again my point is same bro
