Quote (babun1024 @ Jan 24 2024 06:41pm)
+ China, Iran and India are helping Russia actively. That's the only reason Russia survived the sanctions and isn't running out of anything any time soon.
Someone mentioned prior that western drones are superior to Iranian ones. That's true. The problem is US and allies aren't supplying the top end version but the models which are a little bit better than Iranian ones. Iranian ones are however very cheap to mass produce.
India didn't want to be aligned with Russia. America forced them into this. We threw up a new iron curtain and said everyone must join in our economic blockade of Russia, and India simply said 'no'. Because it could wreck their economy, they get cheap Russian oil. I fear this might have longer and greater impacts than anything direct between the US, China & Russia. India is the ascendant world power and we're antagonizing them, forcing them into a pigeonhole with our rivals. Basically its like if Biden was playing a game of chess trying to find the fastest way to get himself checkmated.
I'm not sure about drones, there's been a lot of footage recently of upgraded Russian inferno FPV drones with night vision, high altitude precision bombers that carry 9 rounds, while footage of Ukrainian drones tends to still be one-shot suicide drones. Is that indicative of what's being used statistically? Because the Russian ones are far more lethal and particularly adapted to this conflict. Flying shaheds into power stations tends to just knock out utilities for a few hours or days as engineering crews replace them, but the hunter killer drones on the battlefield are wiping out the front lines