Comment by dieortin

7 days ago

Ukraine and Russia have infinitely more experience with drone warfare than the US.

Stats from Russia/Ukraine are not good. And the ones that exist, could be dismissed for various reasons ("Russians are savages so it doesn't count", "Ukraine is defending itself in existential war so it doesn't count").

With the USA the stats are available and no valid excuses exist to throw the data away. The US military is not defending itself and is supposed to be the most powerful, advanced (tech and policy) and professional military in the world. They are the best case scenario for the human drone operators' performance one has. And yet:

https://worldmetrics.org/obama-drone-strikes-statistics/