“The proportion of missions when we successfully carried out a task that only a first-person view drone can fulfill — delivering a precision strike on a target that could not be hit by other means — was in the single-digit percent.”
A volunteer on a Ukrainian FPV team counted his results. 43% of sorties hit, a quarter of drones failed before takeoff, and jamming downed 31%. A mortar does the same job in a third of the time for a fifth of the cost. The drones-replace-artillery pitch comes from people selling drones.