Yeah the Bayraktar was pretty amazing early on, today though ukraine is pumping out thousands of smaller drones for a fraction of the cost to cover pretty much all use cases from human targets to armored and heavily armored targets, drone to drone air defense, you name it, with the added benefit of them being basically impossible to intercept at a long range.

Still, major props to Turkiye for those, they made a huge difference in the early stages, along with Javelin missiles destroying Russian armor columns

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

The Bayraktar was a major reason for the Russian invasion. Ukraine got those drones around 2020 and they were absolutely devastating in the Donbas and was putting Ukraine on pace to end the insurgency there.

What governments are all starting to realize is that the big flashy weapon systems that cost $1.2million per use are useless in a peer combat situation because the damage done doesn't scale with the cost whatsoever. Quantity almost always top quality in a prolonged conflict