U.S. drones are too expensive for Ukraine to deploy at scale (www.wsj.com)

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This is a perfect illustration of how US military industry is optimized for soaking up as much government funding as possible instead of producing reliable weapons that can be manufactured at scale.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

What do you mean by "popular guerilla tactics"? They've given out guns to civilians from Teroborona at the very beginning, they've been using civilian vehicles to transport soldiers, they've been using civilian buildings to hide ammunition depots and artillery positions, ans there's been at least one case of civilians attacking Russian armour with Molotov's. Plus the whole drone bombings

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Well, those you listed, yeah. I admit I hadn't looked too much into it beforehand and was going off on the discourse about tanks and planes, and even now I'm no expert on it. It's just I've hardly seen the international observers talking about traps, "cheap" sabotage or insurrections in the occupied regions.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wdym, that's not guerilla warfare, where's all the people hiding in the trees and hole traps in the ground

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm having trouble parsing whether you are being humorous or not

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Isn't that why it's called guerilla warfare? Because the soldiers use tactics that gorillas would use like climbing up into the trees and digging holes

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Could you lay off the jokes, please? It's a war

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