I FOUGHT IN UKRAINE AND HERE'S WHY FPV DRONES KIND OF SUCK

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FPV drones are unmanned aerial vehicles commonly used in the Ukraine war to deliver and detonate explosive charges of up to 1.5 kilograms. While they are touted as a cheap and accessible solution for precision strikes, their actual success rate, when including pre-aborted missions, is between 20 to 30 percent. These drones are rarely successful because they are often more expensive than other options, hard to use, susceptible to electronic interference, and most don't have night-vision capabilities, which is important for a battlefield that's in the dark for 14 hours a day.