https://vk.com/video-34740837_456265661
https://vk.com/video-34740837_456265643
Watch these two videos that Azerbaijan released showing strikes on Armenian positions.
See the hovering targeting drone bringing in a strike with pin-point accuracy. Watch as the expensive military equipment goes bye-bye. Do you see the soldiers running with like a second's warning that something bad is about to happen? Yeah, they don't make it.
This is the main interesting thing about this:
Both Armenia and Azerbaijan are garbage countries with garbage militaries. I don't want to insult them, but they're both third-rate players. Neither are known for anything except for irregulars, artillery duels, and a bit of ethnic cleansing.
Remember the last 'war' that took place there was 1994. It was decidedly a low-tech affair. Sure, tons of people died but it was very conventional and most of it wasn't on film.
Fast forward 16 years.
Only 16 years.
Now Azerbaijan, who are still a garbage country with a garbage military, field commercially-available yet precise and deadly drones that allow guided munitions to be deposited on a target the size of an apple.
This is the future of warfare my friends. Third, maybe even fourth-rate entities are going to be able to swarm the enemy with cheap drones.
If you don't have an air-defense system that can take out swarms of drones, you ain't gonna be able to project power worth of shit. I'm not sure what the US capability is there, but the current Russian air-defense systems (the ones most likely to be used by third-party combatants) are not very good against drones:
https://www.globaldefensecorp.com/20...nes-heres-why/