I agree: we must invest in transforming the Volkswagen mill into a tank factory. Or decision Europe from F-35 fighters Raphael. Obviously, we request to increase the production of 155 mm missiles. And if the US stops supplying Patriots, we should produce as much SAMP/T (French-Italian air defence systems) as possible to defend the sky.
All of this is right, but we are already observing a technological transformation that can be compared to the transition from musketeers to gunners, shooters to device guns, cavalry to tanks, helicopters to jets, etc.
To produce a tank, you gotta build a tank factory, buy the right equipment, train employees and engage a group of contractors due to the fact that you can't do everything in 1 company. due to the fact that 1 tank requires electronic solutions, from the metallurgical industry, chemical industry, etc.
"Birds" for $1,000.
A squad of people will produce a large armored vehicle worth $5-7 million, which will be burned in conflict within minutes by a 1000-dollar FPV drone. , built in an flat in town by 1 individual with 2 good hands.
This drone will be controlled from a safe place by a player who played "Counter Strike" yesterday, and present burned a immense pile of equipment. But to hell with the equipment, the crew burned in it. Commander, tank driver, shooter and cargo. In addition to the fact that surviving people cannot be resurrected, money was besides spent on their training — more than $1,000.
The war of the future is not about tanks. It's an artificial intelligence that will control drone swarms. And each specified swarm of hundreds or thousands of drones will be much cheaper than a single Patriot or SAMP/T worth $1 billion.
PAP/EPA/PRESS SERVICE OF THE 93RD SEPARATE MECHANIZED BRIGADE TRADE / PAPFPV 93 separate Mechanized Brigade “Cholodnyj Jar” conducting combat operations in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 22 March 2025.
And this SAM, whose production took even more time and work, will not have time to launch any of its 10 million-dollar anti-aircraft missiles. Before it's torn to pieces. Since this swarm of drones will simply "dump" guidance channels, it will not let any targets to be tracked, and 1 100 tiny "birds" cannot be shot down with 1 large projectile.
These drones will fly over enemy territory, attack airports and burn 5th generation fighters worth hundreds of millions of dollars each. Eventually, these drones will wipe out last century's air defence systems and will scope tank factories, warehouses, command centres, air defence launch stations, fleet bases and even atomic weapons depots.
Near the front lines these “birds” will burn everything in their reach. Skeletons of rotten equipment will rust in the fields, and soldiers will hide day by day in underground shelters and burrows, suffering from thirst, knowing that a twelve drones will be hunted on the surface on all man. And their command will not have its own drones to shoot them down, clear the sky, and aid people.
Europe does not yet understand
The triumph will guarantee not the number of tanks and aircraft, but the number of drones, AI capabilities, electronic combat systems, the ability to produce them rapidly and grow their capabilities. That's what war's gonna be like, and that's what happens.
We realize that, so do the Russians. But Europeans are not yet. They woke up and began looking for money to prepare for another Gulf War.
