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Cobretti2 said:
shavenferret said:

The war in Ukraine has shown that since rare and super expensive equipment is becoming a target more often by drones, that there may be a need to scale back quality. Mass, or numbers are becoming more important a d so is finishing the fight early in order to avoid a war of attrition.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wests-approach-weaponry-wrong-vs-russia-ukraine-defense-industry-2025-6

Well depends what the quality aspect is designed to do. Is it to save lives or not? Throwing quantity over quality is the reason many Russian soldiers are dying. Less precision is also the reason many civilians are caught in the cross fire as the missile accuracies are not as precise as the west. This is the WW1 and WW2 mentality

The other reason it is slow and expensive is because there was no need to mass produce these things at a scalable level by the west.

However the future has shown that drones will play a more important role in future. These are good at taking out quality driven equipment and quantity driven equipment. Hell we may see drones fighting drone and then we have to start to wonder wtf are we having wars for it its machines killing machines lol

Right, now all i said was that numbers/mass is becoming *more* important, not that this will be the only valuable thing.  It's just that there won't necessarily be an unending race to the top of the tech tree if u don't mind a rts reference.  The article also says that top tier vehicles are still needed, but there will also be a need for lower level ones as well.