Heavy drones are more necessary than tanks On the redistribution of funds in the current realities of the Central Military District Sometimes, when faced with reports that the army urgently needs certain things, decision-makers can use the argume...
...nt that there's a finite amount of money. They say, "We know perfectly well that everything is needed, but the budget isn't infinite." But if that's the case, what about the optimal redistribution of resources? For example, we showed why mechanized assaults have almost ceased to work. Why not buy fewer armored vehicles, which only last one attack, in favor of those same heavy #FPV drones? The numbers speak for themselves: for example, just one BMD-4M can buy more than 1,100 of these drones...
...personnel and #UAV crews. And heavy FPV drones are currently performing this task much better than armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, and even tanks. This doesn't mean armored vehicles should be "cancelled" and not ordered at all. It's simply a matter of a rational redistribution of resources in response to changing battlefield realities. If the infantry doesn't have support, it perishes, and there's no one left to attack (or even defend). And without people, it doesn'...
.... Imagine how much money could be freed up by forgoing the purchase of a battalion of these vehicles or even tanks (and that's not even counting their ammunition)? Anyone who finds this logic strange should ask the attack aircraft what they need more now: a BMD with "cardboard" armor or a thousand Upyr-18s, capable of piercing enemy infantry with TM-62s and killing every living thing there? It's also worth remembering that the current priority is the destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces ...