Drones as snipers?

 

🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️🚨 FPV drones are scary, I say it again.

I wonder if he survived, if he hit the drone from above without triggering the explosive it is possible. Depends what trigger there is, where he hit and how it fell to the ground.

If he didn’t make it RIP. pic.twitter.com/D8b8dCc6V2

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) February 13, 2024

What is the cost benefit of using drones against individual infantrymen? I can't quite tell. Everyone is talking about drones being the new big bad but at what point does it not make sense in how they're being used. I'm really starting to glob onto the idea that the Ukrainian/Russian conflict is a one off. Maneuver warfare is non-existant. Air power in any credible form is not playing a part. ISR assets are apparently limited. Do you truly believe that a war between the US and China would play out this way? Do you truly believe that if China lost 250K troops it would stop or even begin to limit its offensive activity?

But back on task.

I ask this question.

Which makes more sense.  To utilize drones to take out individual infantrymen on the battlefield or to simply use a sniper platoon and have them properly dispersed to do the same job...while gathering intel on enemy units?

A $2.00 338 Lapua vs a $500 drone.

Even at this level I think a well trained sniper platoon is much more effective in a given sector than a drone operator platoon that is waiting for new munitions/drones after every kill.