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  War sure is fucking scary these days
context: Think of it as low cost alternative to GPS artillery.  It is slow and it can be shot down but it is cheap and accurate. >
  
  Not particularly effective though. Even if you crash it in a trench your only getting 1 or 2 casualties.  The effect on moral will be rough, but so is just having a hand grenade fall out of the sky and land in your foxhole >
  
  its a price per kill style calculation, and it still adds up well.
  some of these drones are worth less than what russia promised(but ofc doesnt) pay the family of killed troops. even so, a 100k HIMARS missile for 20 vatniks vs a 5k or less drone for an individual... hell, iv heard of suicide drones potentially being 1k or less if the explosives are avaliable... basically a body for a mortar shell
  so use both, have the loitering drone watch the 'single use drone' impacts, and drop its grenades where needed after + command now knows exactly what damage was done. >
  
  Oh it's certainly cheaper than blanketing an area in artillery, but I doubt it's cheaper than the grenades and bombs their dropping from similar drones, which can return and rearm.
  I'm assuming their using different drone models for these missions >
  
  i think the difference is the grenade droppers are larger quad copters hovering in place while the suicide drones are more a model airplane coming in fast and boom. smaller faster targets
  then again, its all speculation on my part, im no drone expert. but switchblade style drones are far more difficult to defend against in their terminal stage >
  
  The other part is also a drone is harder to retaliate against. Artillery can be identified for counter battery fire.  A guy with a laptop is much harder to spot >
  
  i saw a vid early on of a Ukrainian drone operator with a chinese drone. they dropped it in the middle of a field, started it n fuckin legged it cause aparently china had given russia access to its drone tracking data... either way. drone did its thing, lands in field again, they pick it up. 4 hours later arty strike on that field... cause ofc, russia is top down only and it takes forever for info to go up n commands to come down >
  
  Sounds like they should just land it by some Russian troops without suiciding it. They will artillery themselves. >
  
  Sounds to me like they need to let some hackers play with the tracking modules. I'm betting someone out there can get it to provide a false location return. How many Russian ammo dumps do you think they could get the Russians to blow up before they notice?