EPTOn March 06 2025 06:59 maybenexttime wrote:
Ukraine has been consistently hitting targets 1000+ km inside Russia with their long range weapons. I don't think concentration is that important. Scaling up the number of weapons and good intelligence are what matters, I'd say. If the targets are spread out, it's also difficult to cover them all with anti-air. Russia is spread so thin that they moved their anti-air assets from St Petersburg to Ukraine.
Ukraine has been consistently hitting targets 1000+ km inside Russia with their long range weapons. I don't think concentration is that important. Scaling up the number of weapons and good intelligence are what matters, I'd say. If the targets are spread out, it's also difficult to cover them all with anti-air. Russia is spread so thin that they moved their anti-air assets from St Petersburg to Ukraine.
I meant that something has to be a certain size to be worth a missile. If there are thousands of tiny drills, they just wouldn't be worth a missile each. If there is one big drill, it is obviously worth a missile.
I just don't know anything about oil drilling, so i don't know where on the cost spectrum those drills actually fall.
A refinery is one obvious big target that is obviously worth a missile. But if an oil field is really big and spread out, the damage a missile can do might not be worth the cost of the missile (and the opportunity cost of not shooting it at something else).
