Which missiles were used for that? The news report I saw, only a handful of their missiles hit the drones. Their solution to this was using jammers, but now the drone is back in the air.
On related topic, any idea why Armenia did not use the Iranian Shaheed or Muhajir against Azerbaijan? Is it because it would harm their relations with America?
Different war, Armenia and Azerbaijan war (forgot the name of that war and too lazy too look it up) is not nearly as intensive as 2022 Russian Invasion. The scale of this war and the one in 2020 is very different, you are looking at 2000+ Russian armour vehicle destroyed vs hundred.
Drone like the TB2 are not supposed to be anchor on for any offensive, they are more an ISTAR tool, look at it as a sniper, you want a sniper on a frontline to be your eyes and ears and report back battlefield info instead of blowing its cover and try to attack anyone or everyone at range. That would waste the resource on that ISTAR asset. The attacking role would be better suited with suicide drone like Switchblade or Lancet, because they are cheap and cheerful and as long as you have target solution fed by ISTAR asset, like TB2, they can keep on the killing
While TB2 are relative cheap, they aren't really that cost effective to run on battlefield and do what $20,000 a piece Switchblade and Lancet drone did, because that would be a waste of 5 million dollars if that trip was a one way trip, imagine this, which set do you prefer? A flight with TB2 with 4 hardpoints and use it to attack as is or a flight with TB2 used high up in the sky and feed you information so you can launch hundreds of those loitering munition on them?
It wouldn't take that much imagination to think anyone in battlefield would prefer the latter than the former, which is what those drones like TB2 should have been,
The thing is, at the onset of this war, Ukraine pretty much have no choice but to use TB2 as major attack role in this war, because they are facing a numerical inferiority to Russian equipment, which make the TB2 extremely important to their offensive, the issue here is, Russia don't have much in a way to counter these, I mean they can't chase them down with fighter because Russia don't have Air Superiority, and they probably can't deal with it other than using expensive anti-air asset, which either they are unwilling or unable to counter them. That's when we see TB2 run wild. Problem is at this stage now, Russia aren't as active as they were back in 2022, there aren't many target for Ukraine to shoot unlike in 2022, and that is across all the platform, not just TB2 or even drone in general. Second is Russia is getting smarter on counter drone technique, on the other hand, Ukraine has more weapon in their arsenal than just TB2 that can make a different, which is why TB2 were taking a backseat during the beginning of 2023.
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