There has been a lot of hype about drones 'winning' the war for Ukraine but it's all nonsense - they are far from 'wunderwaffen'.
Drones are just a tactical weapon.
Of course they can kill people and blow things up but their main use is for suppression, in many ways similar to both artillery barrages and the 'beaten zone' of a machine gun.
They are more like an army of aerial snipers.
They pick people off, prevent troops from leaving their bunkers and generally act as a weapon that troops fear - just like a sniper.
The difference is that swarms of drones can do much more than a few snipers, even the many snipers the Russians deployed in WW2 against the Wehrmacht.
But 'killing' a drone means much less than killing a sniper as a drone can be quickly replaced unlike the expertise of individual snipers operating in a specific battlefield context.
Drones are expendable assuming you have the manufacturing capability to replace them as needed.
Snipers take months to train whereas a drone takes maybe an hour to deploy.
Drones are the perfect tactical weapon for a war of attrition.
They slow things down, they keep the human body count steadily rising, their operators are mobile and hard to take out.
But they can't win a war, only drag it out.
Which is why the MSM loves them because that's the endgame here: drag the war out for as long as possible so more people are killed as cheaply as possible.
But for all their impact, Stalingrad was not won by snipers and the Ukraine conflict will not be won by drones.
This another false MSM narrative.