And since they are dropping MREs, I don't see why soldiers couldn't carry enough on either their persons or in their vehicles (PLA is 100% motorized by now) that would require the use of UAVs to deliver them. I agree, it's a little gimmicky. Neat photo op though.
This right here is why the PLA only release silly pictures. Because the ‘pics or it didn’t happen brigade’ can’t or won’t apply even a little bit of imagination and common sense to look beyond what has been literally shown to see the obvious potential.
If such drones can drop MREs, what’s stopping them dropping off ammo to a besieged and/or cut- squad so they can hold out until reinforcements can reach them?
Similarly, such drones can be used to drop off specialised medical equipment/supplies to save soldiers’ lives; or specialist mission gear you would not expect troops to carry with normally.
That, in turn opens up all sorts of possibilities in terms of how you equip your standard squads. They could potentially not need to hump a lot of low probability of use gear since those could be rapidly dropped off to their location when actually needed.
On the flip side, cargo drones can be dispatched to exfil high value intelligence caches regular grunts come across on the ground.
The possibilities are almost endless, not no, let’s all instead just laugh at how silly it is to drop off MREs. Because we all know once you load a drone with MREs, that’s all it can ever carry.
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