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Is there any point to helicopters anymore with the increasing capabilities of drones?

See Turkish drone use in UA/RU war. For a single helicopter, you could blanket the skies with drones. Now they aren't dirt cheap, $5 million, but that's a hellva lot cheaper than a single heli.

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No drone yet has the situational awareness and reaction time to match a pair of humans in a helicopter. The ability to react quickly to an evolving situation hasnt yet been replicated.

Try fitting a squad, let alone a platoon, into one of those drones...

Try fitting an squad into an attack helicopter, though.

The Mil Mi-24 would like to have a word with you.

Is a squad 8 people? I guess that’s close. I was thinking more about light attack helicopters like the article one though. A mi24 is a freak of nature right?

Cool helicopter! It brought me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and it looks like there's an even bigger one: the Mi-26. "In early 2002, a civilian Mi-26 was leased to recover two U.S. Army MH-47E Chinook helicopters from a mountain in Afghanistan." [1]

And here I thought the chinook was big, this thing is the tow truck you call when you get your chinook stuck in the mud.

[1] wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26

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