In Reply to: Trump doesn't matter anymore... posted by confused442 on August 10, 2025 at 14:14:34
While Russia advances only inches along the front line, most of the damage on both sides is caused by drones.
Ukraine expects to face over 1,000 drone attacks regularly soon. Currently, significant attack days involve 500 to over 700 drones. China is sending Russia disassembled drones to get around sanctions and has stopped supplying Ukraine with drone parts.
The main challenge isn’t the drones themselves—many are dummy drones used to distract from the real threats—but the missiles concealed within the swarm.
Currently, the missile that shoots a drone costs more than the drone, but they are prototyping very cheap interceptor drones. There are microphones all throughout Ukraine that track the drones, and then fast interceptor drones use AI to automatically target them. Ukraine is shooting down 80 to 90 percent of the drones, but it's the missiles that are a problem. They have only a limited number of patriot batteries.
Russia generally uses drones to target civilians, while missiles are aimed at strategic locations such as command centers, infrastructure, and airfields.
Ukraine has decimated Russia’s radar and anti-air facilities and deploys its fighters daily on the front lines. Ukrainian forces can strike freely anywhere in Russia, while Russia lacks enough anti-air batteries to protect all its targets.
We are starting to see Russian fighters destroyed from maintenance issues or hit on the ground by a drone.
Ukraine's advantage is that Russia is a much more target-rich environment that is spread out. Most of Ukraine's military industrial complex and economic funding is outside of Ukraine where as everything Ukraine hits, hurts Russia's war and economic effort.