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Originally Posted by SutterBrother
Hey Russia!
Remember in WW1 when those first tanks rolled over the trenches, and a few smart officers realized the age of trench warfare was over?
Nice tanks you got there!
Welcome to the age of drone warfare. :-)
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You still need armored vehicles to attack, hard to see drones changing that. Otherwise the speed and range of ground attacks is limited to how far and fast a grunt can run without losing combat capability.
But yeah, the cost effectiveness of drones is likely to make them even more attractive around the world now that they've had such a public succesful field test in wartime conditions.
In general, a "real" war like this is likely to become a testing ground for various technologies that are either relatively new or haven't seen much real action, like
https://twitter.com/user/status/1501543775700762633
(These high-velocity missiles are supposedly really good against helicopters and air-to-ground aircraft.)