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I hope this is real and not moral boosting empty words.
In any case. Fuck Putin’s Imperialism.
Two things stood out to me.
Defense Minister Ruslan Umerov said 96% of all drones fielded by the Ukrainian military are domestically manufactured.
About 85% of all Russian casualties and vehicle kills on the battlefield are scored by Ukrainian drones.
That means so 82% of the effective combat activity is domestically produced.
That's just the end effect though, you still need support from artillery, air defense, anti armor, combat engineering, and a ton more to enable those rates. Drones are the tip of the force multiplying stack, they wouldn't be effective by themselves.
That's the other 15% of course.
Drones are replacing artillery and aircraft as the primary weapon of power on the battlefield. That 85% number is truly remarkable.
In previous conflicts that's about the percentage of casualties and equipment losses that aircraft and artillery combined caused.
Air defense for example causes very few casualties, only a couple of pilots. But it enables the drones to fly without being shot down quickly. It's an enabler, a force multiplier for the drones. If you didn't have air defense, you'd get a lot less effective than just the 1% fewer direct casualties would suggest.
I assumed these are small fpv drones? They have kind of broken the traditional warfare dynamics and are more like ground force+ without the traditional air to air susceptibility.
Part of the combat activity is missile defense though. Maybe other things that aren't just taking out soldiers and tanks.
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I like to fantasize that Ukraine ends to taking over Russia in a reverse uno. I'd never stop laughing.
Ukraine's weapon industry will kick asses of everyone else once they can start delivering to anybody other than their own military.