Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[shavenferret]

Bofferbrauer2 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

I'd say it more highlights the need for some active protection systems that can target drones and loitering munitions effectively. Moving backwards isn't the right way out, you need a proper solution to the problem first.

For instance, during World War 1, Anthony Fokker developed a way to fire a machine gun through the propeller without damaging it, and gave it to the Germans, leading to what is known as the Fokker Scourge. The Entente didn't have such a system, but the French had older, softer bullets, so they armored the propeller to fire through instead. This was a workaround with older technology, but not the solution. Only after the Entente also got hold of this system did they level the playing field and fought the Germans on equal ground. Ukraine must do the same, not downgrade the equipment, but upgrade in a way to neutralize this scourge.

You and cobretti might be taking my response in a way that it wasn't meant.  What myself and the article as well said was that there will be a need for midlevel equipment to a greater now.  That doesn't mean that you can just throw out all of the top level stuff and use the midrange. I also said that a way to keep this from being a problem would be to win the fight as early as possible. 

I agree with you on the countermeasures.  There are also short range radars and machinegun based AAA that can kill drones dead.  So there are options.