Even with the massive allied bombing campaign on Germany in WW2 Germany was still able to produce significant supplies of weapons and materials. It takes a lot to permanently destroy large manufacturing facilities. In Germany (likely similar to some extent in Russia) some was moved literally underground and a lot of production also moved to smaller facilities that were harder to target than large factories. Drones are great for more precision strikes but many don’t have a warhead large enough to do the amount of damage needed.
oripash on
Because industrial weapon production is largely conducted in buildings made out of concrete and steel, and there’s a lot of them 😉
*Ducks*
rawthorm on
Drones are small and arms factories are huge. Unlike targeting oil refineries where you can aim for key parts that disable the whole output of the facility (like the cracking units), factories can easily adapt their output to highly localised damage.
dunncrew on
Ukraine doesn’t have heavy long range drones or bombers. So a small drone hitting a factory is minimal damage at the scale of a factory. And Russia has AA defenses.
I keep hoping Ukraine gets bigger, better long range weapons.
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Even with the massive allied bombing campaign on Germany in WW2 Germany was still able to produce significant supplies of weapons and materials. It takes a lot to permanently destroy large manufacturing facilities. In Germany (likely similar to some extent in Russia) some was moved literally underground and a lot of production also moved to smaller facilities that were harder to target than large factories. Drones are great for more precision strikes but many don’t have a warhead large enough to do the amount of damage needed.
Because industrial weapon production is largely conducted in buildings made out of concrete and steel, and there’s a lot of them 😉
*Ducks*
Drones are small and arms factories are huge. Unlike targeting oil refineries where you can aim for key parts that disable the whole output of the facility (like the cracking units), factories can easily adapt their output to highly localised damage.
Ukraine doesn’t have heavy long range drones or bombers. So a small drone hitting a factory is minimal damage at the scale of a factory. And Russia has AA defenses.
I keep hoping Ukraine gets bigger, better long range weapons.