They’re progressing slowly, but it’s obvious that they don’t want a bad launch so they’re all waiting until they have something that works and is safe enough and safety only comes from having people take it then see if it works after being reversed or ended years later.

They will run out of money before they run out of oil. So that’s a possible scenario but not really true.

The Ukraine war has shown that electronic warfare is very effective against drones.

Really cheap ground driving or walking drones can be an effective way to rapidly clear minefields too. It’s a good area for decoys too. If some of them have advanced thermal sensors and maybe some weapons then they’ll be a target for the enemy but you can have a bunch of real cheap dogshit versions that can’t do much more than move forward.

Also there is still the air breathing battery technology, which isnt ready but is very high performance, double the charge or half the size. The limitation is something that might not matter for one time use drones, where the limitation is that the batteries corrode and don’t have many recharge cycles. That’s bad for phones but fine for disposable drones. I expect that will be a thing within 5 years.

It depends. If you start a war with a reasonable stockpile of artillery and shells then you will have a greater amount of shells than firing pieces at the start. So you can fire with your guns but you can get a big advantage if you can fire more than your opponent in the first round of fire and in the first few days. So if you can have a bunch of these cheapo things then you could effectively double or triple your rate of fire for a short period. That can be a big advantage if it means you break through fortifications or disabled anti air defense. They can move faster and be more responsive than moving artillery pieces around especially in rough terrain.

So you want both really. Having more options is better.

I don’t think they’re a troll, what you stated is a common misconception. And you were wrong initially. Over or underinflating casualty counts is a big deal and it’s best to be accurate. It’s a notoriously difficult thing to measure.

They seem to have gotten complacent because they can just move the planes if Ukraine sends long range drones.

The accurate experience is to play for an hour or two, get stuck early on and then stop playing. Or watch your older cousins play it, and so watching a let’s play version is fairly close to that.

It’s a little uneven because they seem to basically rotate the new people in for suicide missions in small groups. So there’s still a pool of people farther in the rear not getting hit at such high rates.

Not that they don’t get along, just that there is a difference in normal regionally.

There’s regional and cultural differences, famously brusque NYC and easy going west coast in particular.

They should be.

It’s hard to tell what the total success rate is, but the s300s and Soviet aa really doesn’t seem to do well against these medium size drones.