Sergey Flash. What is more important in modern warfare - technology or mass production? the mind of the enemy.
The KCPN Analytical Center translated a great opinion post by our clever and therefore dangerous enemy Sergey "Flash" Baskarstanov. In it he tries to answer the question that appears in the title.
"I will try to formulate my opinion on this matter, give examples of this war, and please take into account that I am not talking about special operations and small local conflicts, but I mean global wars.
Reconnaissance UAVs play one of the most important roles on the front lines. In the first years of the war, our enemy actively used Zala, Supercam and Orlan UAVs. But at some point, our enemy decided that instead of one Zala reconnaissance drone, it would be more effective to use 50 cheap Molenia drones. They are, of course, much worse in terms of characteristics than the "Zale" or the "Supercam", but they will bring more advantages.
And the cheap and primitive "Mulanya" became the basis for Russian front-line attack UAVs at medium distances. The benefits here are achieved through quantity.
Same example with cheap geranium interceptors. We could have created expensive combat UAVs, but we chose the concept of tens of thousands of cheap and not very technological "Fision" and "Stings", which filled the entire country and almost blocked the sky from gasoline-powered "Geraniums". It was precisely the cheapness and mass availability that allowed us to close the entire country.
Another example from another direction is frontline electronic warfare. From the first day of the war, both Ukraine and Russia fill the front with cheap and primitive products based on Chinese jamming modules. At the same time, Russia calls itself the most powerful country in the field of electronic warfare, but does not produce anything valuable or high-tech from electronic warfare channels.
Now we see that the enemy plans to rely on the segment of cheap cruise missiles, so why spend huge sums on expensive missiles if instead of one "caliber" you can manufacture and launch 20 "bandrols"?