Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Kamikaze Tactics - Insane or Rational?" video.

Essentially, kamikaze attacks gave the japanese something akin to self-guided cruise missiles. Something that hadn't been invented yet. So naturally that would grant them an edge.
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@spaceman081447 Only guided in the sense that you could launch it to strike pre-programmed coordinates. You couldn't get it to lock-on to a moving target.
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@canuck_gamer3359 Sustaining the regime has always been the purpose of any state run military.
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@borregoayudando1481 Old post but, today it seems the era of the missile has passed and the era of the drone has dawned. And it makes sense in a way. While ballistic missiles are faster, they're more troublesome to build and make work (rocketry can be a bitch when you try to attain stable flight). Drones may be slow by comparison, but they're small enough to make detection difficult and you can really zero in on the target up until the moment of impact. Parts to make them are cheap and readily available too.
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@borregoayudando1481 The GPS guided drones are, yes. But from what I've been told, the RC drones used in the field are less susceptible to jamming. I guess it's got something to do with the radio bandwidth that the RC drones use is too close to radio communications, so if the enemy hopes to use jamming against RC drones they'd essentially cripple their own radio communications too
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