Those drones were fast as lightning.
Yes in fact it was a little bit frightening…
I love reading about these going BOOM.
They don’t have a lot of them.
The thing any RTS player knows is generally being able to pummel an enemy with airpower only works so far because aircraft tend to be expensive and fragile and defenses can mitigate cheaper than you can strike them… but there comes a critical point where if you barely have any effective air defenses at all every new air defense unit you create just becomes the target of an angry sky full of hostile aircraft that come from seemingly all directions. There is a very intense slippery slope to losing the air war, especially in such a massive expansive of territory and russia is hurtling down this slippery slope far faster than anyone realizes in my opinion.
The problematic question tactically now for russia is can they even introduce air defense assets into a context without them immediately gaining the attention of all nearby hostile air assets? At a certain degree of force imbalance russia is just feeding meat to piranhas. Is it even worth deploying the precious few air defenses they have at that point? Or better to keep them turned off so they don’t project a giant BLOW ME UP signal to a swarm of attack drones?
Think of it in terms of sensor density, how many high quality sensors have been monitoring a given battlespace whether they are offensive or defensive before a new valuable asset is introduced? If the answer is mostly enemy aircraft have been monitoring the area with sensors and little friendy coverage is pre-existing introducing an air defense asset into that context is suicide… which appears to be exactly what is happening and I hope russia keeps doing it!