Which is why we should be halting the progression and use of the drones like we are seeing in Ukraine. No one wins a drone war.
A non sequitur with no justification. If you are being attacked with drones, and you don’t have any, you are definitely going to lose that war.
This is like how people say nobody wins a nuclear war. Ask Ukraine how they feel about the decision to give up their nukes is going.
They had no control over their actual use. So why would Ukraine feel bad about giving them up? It was a huge benefit to get rid of them given the risks and costs associated.
They absolutely could not afford to maintain them circa 1991-2021. Not even remotely close.
Giving them up was the only thing that made any sense given their extremely low real value. If Ukraine made a mistake, it was in what they got in return for those non-functional weapons. They didn't negotiate very well.
> They had no control over their actual use
Assuming they could not bypass the protection, they could still extract the radioactive material and create their own designs.
Russia is a slightly different case because they can't make many of the parts but they can cobble them together using other CPUs. So they are hurt, but possibly helped.
We just have to work on defensive measures.
Unfortunately these measures do not seem to work.. If even one actor is employing them, the rest need to also employ them in a lack of a better defence.
Of course one side or the other will win a drone war, just like most any other war.
Because both sides use them.
They made armored attacks impossible for both sides. A tank is detected in 1 minute and destroyed in 10.
The Ukraine war is already causing blowback as seen in Gaza.
We should make war itself illegal.
Not with that attitude they won't.