But artillery only has a short range, less than 50-60km. Ukraina is bombing trucks with FPV drones at that range now.

So you'd need serious anti-drone capabilities to get the artillery close enough, and good luck if you have it sitting around deployed for any lenghth of time.

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jyounker 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Modern artillery doesn't sit in fixed emplacements. It fires a few shells, and then moves. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_artillery_system

	▲	magicalhippo 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but when they're moving they're not shooting, so those few shells better count. Both shooting and moving is very detrimental to staying hidden. And with FPV drones moving doesn't do you much good unless you move out of drone range, which as mentioned is or very nearly is 2x the effective range of such artillery systems. The attack drones don't have to be big, just big enough to score a mobility kill and the artillery is pretty much f'd in the a...