European Drone Warfare Goes Operational: $49B in Commitments This Month
Ukrainian ground robotic systems logged more than 22,000 frontline logistics, evacuation, and combat missions over a three-month period, President Zelensky announced at the country's Arms Makers' Day in April 2026, as CNN reported. Ukraine's Defense Ministry has separately set a target of contracting 25,000 unmanned ground vehicles by mid-2026 — more than double the 2025 total — as it pursues a stated goal of moving all frontline logistics onto robotic systems.
The enthusiasm amongst the Warmongers for Terminator Wars rivals the orgasmic declarations from Tech Bros and Futurists when discussing the fantastic opportunities of AI. They are going ALL IN on Drones as the future of warfare.
...must...have...MOAR...drones!
Unsurprisingly from people with the same mentality as the ones who built the Maginot Line and brought the Gattling Gun to Trench Warfare, I don't think the planners & procurers of this stuff have really thought it through very well.
The Kill Ratios involved when pitting Human Grunts against Flying Robots are so insanely one-sided nobody will be putting soldiers out in the field to try and take territory. If they do, they'll be mowed down just like grunts trying to cross no-man's land between the German and French trenches in WWI. The "front line" of any given battle to take territory will amount to aerial battles of drone v drone & missile v missile until there is a whole lot of broken hardware in piles around the neighborhood. Until one side's hardware has been completely exhausted, neither side can put human grunts oh the field.
So, both sides have to bomb behind the line to try and destroy the other side's drone manufacturing "factories", but these can be small, dispersed and hidden, making them almost impossible to completely eradicate. Meanwhile, other longer range drones on both sides will go about the bizness of bombing transformers and power plants on both sides. By the time anybody might send Homo Saps to take control of a town, there won't be anything but rubble to take.
All a war will turn into is an exercise in Demolition. As long as both sides are reasonably closely matched and/or have Allies who will keep supplying them with hardware, the demolition on both sides will keep on going until there is total economic collapse. That's what's going on with the Ukies & Ruskies at the moment.
What does either side actually "win" from this war? Will Russia get control of Ukraine if they destroy more stuff? Will Ukraine get NATO Nukes to position on the border to threaten Putin with if they win? What's the goal for this exercise in demolition?
Possibly more than at any time in history, the utter pointlessness of war for resolving differences between nations is vividly displayed. Even without using Nukes, technology is rendering wars unwinnable. This probably began with Vietnam, but it's well entrenched now. While it's still possible to squash a small, poor and weak country like Venezuela, none of the 1st World countries can win a war against another one, particularly when backed up by any of the Big 3 as Allies.
At least we now have a better idea of how Industrial Civilization will end itself. AI controlled Drones & Robots will do the Demolition.
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