• CapeWearingAeroplane
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    7 months ago

    The thing with carriers is that they’re designed to be at the center of an extremely capable formation, whose primary defensive objective is the carrier. A tank is more similar to the old battleships in that sense: They are heavier and pack a harder punch than anything else on the field, but need to expose themselves to be effective. A carrier is more like a HIMARS launcher surrounded by a small army of tanks, infantry and all thinkable kinds of air defence.

    The drones wreak havoc on dispersed targets with insufficient air defence, not well defended troop concentrations. What makes them so effective in this war is that artillery has largely prevented troops from concentrating, so there are a lot of these dispersed targets that drones are good against.