Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[Cobretti2]

shavenferret said:

Cobretti2 said:

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.  

I read the article but I don't fully agree with it as there is no context to what they mean will be sacrificed. If it's air conditioning or electronics sure whatever. If it's safety then no I do no agree lower end vehicles are needed.

A good example is we have seen drones hit Russian tanks and the men die in them. We have seen drones hit America tanks and people survive in them. Sure eventually the tank got damaged but at least the first impact or two meant soldiers survived and got to escape and live another day.