Comment on Zelensky warns Iran war 'emboldening' Russia after Ukraine meets Trump officials
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 20 hours agoThe bottleneck is not drones, the bottleneck is expertise.
Foreign investment/buy orders increase the production capacity of Ukrainian businesses which compensates for any drones diverted by increasing overall production, so no it isn’t diverting from the frontlines really.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
One cultivates the other, as operators need something to train on.
That said, raw supply of materials remains an issue across each theater of conflict. One of the bigger problems US/Israel has atm is producing and staffing weapons systems both offensively and defensively.
Ukrainians stepping in to provide support both drain their own front lines and create some miserable optics for a country that needs to be seen as opposing violations of sovereignty.
A country already strapped for resources and manpower, which they cannot afford to export.
Might as well be France, during the Blitz, exporting tanks to Franco’s Spain. It doesn’t help you if you’re businesses are going to be someone else’s property in another few months.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
No it might as well not, do not fear monger, the frontlines of Ukraine are not in danger of collapsing.
The more foreign powers work with Ukraine on drone defense the more all of Ukraine benefits. Drone production is one of the easiest weapons of war to scale up production of, we aren’t talking about helicopters, tanks or jets here.