Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "Massive Fighting Everywhere | The End Of Armored Warfare? | Ukrainian Dnieper Crossing" video.

  1. Disagree, it's just much harder to concentrate large forces now. There is satellite reconnaissance and either side can destroy large concentrations of vehicles and supply dumps and vehicles at long range, easier than sending a fleet of bombers in WWII. Also, modern equipment is vastly more expensive than in WWII, even if you account for the huge economic growth since then. Tens of millions of dollars for a single aircraft is nothing unusual. Apparently it took 4000 man hours to build a Bf109 and 16000 to build a Spitfire for about $1 million in modern money. A Ka52 costs ten times as much and a F22 Raptor is well over a hundred million. We're looking at over a hundred thousand man hours for modern military aircraft and much of that cost is avionics. You're not going to be seeing hundreds of Ka52s or Su35s in a single battle.
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  2. The only place more dangerous to be on a battlefield than inside a tank is outside a tank. They're not disappearing any time soon. People have been anticipating tanks becoming obsolete for a hundred years now.
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  3. Totally agree, also modern equipment is vastly more expensive than in WWII, even if you account for the huge economic growth since then. Tens of millions of dollars for a single aircraft is nothing unusual. Apparently it took 4000 man hours to build a Bf109 and 16000 to build a Spitfire for about $1 million in modern money. A Ka52 costs ten times as much and a F22 Raptor is well over a hundred million. We're looking at over a hundred thousand man hours for modern military aircraft and much of that cost is avionics.
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