What stops drones just killing everything and whoever has the most winning every battle? How are they being defeated? What limits their use? Why aren’t infantry utterly terrified going into battle when drones seem able to blow them up without warning, dropping bombs out of nowhere? Can they be detected being small and flying low? Do they do air-to-air combat?
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Drones are changing the battlefield, but they have some negative traits.
The side without drones have a clear disadvantage which is why both sides in the ukraine war has rushed to mass produce drones.
Fpv drones (the suicide drones) are however very hard to use and require lots of training to be effective.
Grenade dropping drones are a nuisance but has to remain still over their target, thus is very fragile once discovered.
According to sources drones have a success rate of about 30% and about half of the lost drones are lost to electronic warfare.
For the infantry it definitly affect morale to constantly need to have drone awareness, and some videos show soldiers running in panic from drones following them.
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