Source: Law & Liberty
by Paul Schwennesen
“Drones have fundamentally tipped the scales of warfare, not merely in a technical and tactical sense, but in an economic one as well. Having observed firsthand the astonishing evolution in drone deployment, it can be fairly said that unmanned systems are not just an iteration in weaponry, but in fact, represent a wholesale revolution in the application of force. Technical advances, particularly in first-person view (FPV) drone deployment, mean that up to 50 kilograms of high explosive can be delivered to a 50cm2 target from hundreds of kilometers away, practically anywhere on Earth. For pennies on the dollar. The attacks on Russia’s Toropets and Oktyabrskiy ammunition storage depots are merely the latest examples of the astonishing asymmetries at play in the modern battlefield.” (10/30/24)