{"id":22,"date":"2026-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/?p=22"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:00:00","slug":"cheap-drones-cracking-defense-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Cheap Drones Are Cracking Russia&#8217;s Expensive Defense Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cheap, massed, expendable \u2014 Ukrainian drones are forcing Russia&#8217;s premium air-defense network into an unwinnable exchange rate. The economics of attrition, explained.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine\u2019s Cheap Drones Are Cracking Russia\u2019s Expensive Defense Network\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/og9fgmXEtFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap, massed, expendable \u2014 Ukrainian drones are forcing Russia&#8217;s air defenses into an unwinnable exchange rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drone-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}