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  • Right. It’s cheap, which enhances a drone’s biggest strength dramatically (being cheap to produce). It’s fit for the environment it is in (contested airspace) and it is easily and readily deployed.

    Putting drones on helicopters is just… it is so expensive to put a helicopter in the air when you can just send up a platform or anything like it, even from the ground, for a fraction of the cost of one helicopter taking off. And losing a platform or a bunch of drones is infinitely cheaper than losing a helicopter.

    This is not me saying helicopters have no place in a modern battlefield. They do. But slapping a drone on it and calling it a day is lazy and dumb.