A Chinese earthquake rescue team deployed drones to light up the night and aid search and rescue operations after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

[u/Red_Lotus_Alchemist]

[u/Grimour]

I think you are focusing on the wrong part. A lot of Ukrainians would have died instead if they did not use the drones as weapons and robo dogs for reconnaissance. It really helps leviate some of the dread of going into not secure zones. The Russians could stay home if they didn't like the killing of innocents so much.

[u/BolunZ6 → u/Grimour]

People said the same when they first invented machine gun. "If only one person can fire at the rate of 100 peson, we don't have to send 99 person to the war thus saving life"

Yeah we already see how it turned out when ww2 with machine gun technology

[u/psychodogcat → u/BolunZ6]

It's kind of true that eventually, these technologies do end up saving lives more though. As warfare tech gets more dangerous, people are less likely to use it because their enemies also have the same tech. Mutually assured destruction is a hell of a drug.

However, the period immediately after invention is always the worst. See Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[u/Traditional-Key4824 → u/psychodogcat]

Don't tell this guy there is this thing that is called arm race.

[u/Grimour → u/Traditional-Key4824]

LoL. You do realise you are talking about the Russian army here. Those who still use ancient technology, because they are still using cannon fodder tactics. They are racing to their graves, not to advance anything.

[u/Traditional-Key4824 → u/Grimour]

While the Russians is certainly undersupplied and using outdated equipments in most fronts, their drone warfare tactics and equipments only stepped up during the war. Are they still behind? Yes. But are they better than the start of the war? In drones, yes, other, maybe.

And it's not only the Russians, every single nations watching the war had begun their drone programs after seeing the effectiveness of them.

I'm not solely referring to the Ukrain-Russo war. And arrogant people like you are the reason the Chinese is catching up.

[u/Grimour → u/Traditional-Key4824]

Of course that is the way of our kind. I would much rather fly a drone though than run head first into bullets.

[u/Vasyh → u/Grimour]

It's funny how Russia is still advancing with only shovels (if you check what really happens on the ground after 2023).

[u/Little_Head6683 → u/Grimour]

Stop believing the false narrative. Stop underestimating your opponent. Russia has been a festering corpse since the fall of the USSR. But they're also in a war economy currently.

They're still a massive threat and responsible for 100.000s of deaths by now. The West is currently studying modern peer-to-peer warfare. Russia is actually fighting it. Ukraine might be better than them at it, but Russia just flattens everything they encounter with the massive shell and drone production they've got now.

The destruction in Ukraine is more concentrated than during the 2nd world war.

[u/Grimour → u/Little_Head6683]

Sure they are fighting it - and losing heavy losses all day, everyday. They aren't even making modern tanks because they are also just fodder. It's one big Russian nesting doll.

Russia is all out of their massive second world war bomb storage. They are bleeding hard now and the only reason that scum shelling tactic was working, was because no one was willing to give Ukraine anything that was able to strike back at easy stand still missile launchers..that was a horrible time to witness them being helplessly torn little by little.

Russia flattens everything it encounters huh? Sure haven't flattened Ukraine.

What a random WW fact, that means nothing when condensed to such a degree.

[u/Poohstrnak → u/Grimour]

Hey now, they half like 4 almost 5th gen fighters with exposed wood screws, no S ducts, and a radar cross section the size of a whale shark

They have bleeding edge tech!

I wonder if no one knew I was joking. All of the things I listed are profoundly not 5th gen.