{"id":22877,"date":"2026-08-16T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22877"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:17:00","slug":"learning-the-wrong-lessons-from-drone-warfare-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22877","title":{"rendered":"Learning the wrong lessons from DRONE WARFARE in UKRAINE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drones are changing warfare, but they are not the super&nbsp;weapon that they sometimes seem to be. They work best in combination with a variety of weapons. It usually takes many drones to take out a tank.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many situations, mortars&nbsp;are more effective than FPV drones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FPV drones can&#8217;t fly far, can&#8217;t see well at night, don&#8217;t work well when it&#8217;s cloudy, are vulnerable to jamming, and have light payloads. Mortars are better in these respects. You can make a drone that doesn&#8217;t have these disadvantages, but at that point, you have an attritable weapon that is much more expensive than a mortar shell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sItcZFcMNBM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sItcZFcMNBM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones are changing warfare, but they are not the super weapon that they sometimes seem to be. They work best in combination with a variety of weapons. It usually takes many drones to take out a tank. <\/p>\n<p>In many situations, mortars are more effective than FPV drones. <\/p>\n<p>FPV drones can&#8217;t fly far, can&#8217;t see well at night, don&#8217;t work well when it&#8217;s cloudy, are vulnerable to jamming, and have light payloads. Mortars are better in these respects. You can make a drone that doesn&#8217;t have these disadvantages, but at that point, you have an attritable weapon that is much more expensive than a mortar shell. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sItcZFcMNBM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,553,272,355,314,156,259,315,311,619,158,1055],"class_list":["post-22877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-drones","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22878,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22877\/revisions\/22878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}