Ukraine has become very effective at countering the prop based drones, including shahed. The Russian adaption has been to jet powered shaheds and cheap cruise missiles (the familiar form factor) and the interception rate has gone down significantly and requires unsustainable countermeasures. These jet powered shaheds are being referred to as pseudo-cruise missiles by the people who study these things.
It's likely to be the hardest winter yet for Ukrainians based on the current dynamics.
Why does there have to be a specific exact definition of a drone ?
War is chaos at times, life is complicated, its not always black or white. You are too focused on labels instead of understanding the change. The change is everythign, cost, advantages, in effective of current technologies due to supply and more.
> Why does there have to be a specific exact definition of a drone?
The way to think about this is that it is helpful to have more nuanced definitions for the variety of munitions. They have different characteristics and requirements for countering.
When does a drone become a missile? It changes as the technology of war changes and the two sides adapt. Jet powered Gerans act a lot more like a cruise missile.
Unfortunately, this is the new asymmetric nature to war - cheap cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and one way drones. Being safe got more expensive and less reliable. TBD what the countermeasures will be that change the economics.
Early 1900s had the dreadnought, where Britains advantage was lost because all navies were reset.
We are seeing the Drone reset today.
Depending on how you define "drones"
Ukraine has become very effective at countering the prop based drones, including shahed. The Russian adaption has been to jet powered shaheds and cheap cruise missiles (the familiar form factor) and the interception rate has gone down significantly and requires unsustainable countermeasures. These jet powered shaheds are being referred to as pseudo-cruise missiles by the people who study these things.
It's likely to be the hardest winter yet for Ukrainians based on the current dynamics.
Why does there have to be a specific exact definition of a drone ?
War is chaos at times, life is complicated, its not always black or white. You are too focused on labels instead of understanding the change. The change is everythign, cost, advantages, in effective of current technologies due to supply and more.
> Why does there have to be a specific exact definition of a drone?
The way to think about this is that it is helpful to have more nuanced definitions for the variety of munitions. They have different characteristics and requirements for countering.
When does a drone become a missile? It changes as the technology of war changes and the two sides adapt. Jet powered Gerans act a lot more like a cruise missile.
Unfortunately, this is the new asymmetric nature to war - cheap cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and one way drones. Being safe got more expensive and less reliable. TBD what the countermeasures will be that change the economics.