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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
The hell with artillery, there are 100's of heavily armed drones throughout NATO, bring in a bunch of Ukrainian video game players and let them control the chaos.(with a little guidance of course)  |
Even the US only has a few hundred MQ-9 Reapers. Expensive, heavy lumbering drones (with only a bit better flight characteristics then the obsolete TBD Devastator at the start of WW2) that can carry a decent weapon load is useful against technologically backward foes but they aren't game changers in a modern battlefield. They're too few and expensive to risk in a proxy war against a foe that has modern air defenses and electronic warfare
Artillery is given the title of the King of Battle for good reason, it usually causes the most casualties and damage, and batters troop morale. And artillery was always the forte of Soviet military doctrine.