People who have been pondering the impact of drones on warfare have pointed to helicopters as a system that drones might render useless. The downing of a US Apache by an Iranian Shahed — a very high tech helicopter destroyed by a fairly primitive drone — points out what concerns analysts. Helicopters have pretty much disappeared from the Ukrainian battlefield, due to the density of drones, and senior US officers have worried publicly about evacuation of wounded men from the battlefield as a particular task that drones may have made it impossible for helicopters to do.
Several countries have scaled back planned buys of new helicopters as militaries try to figure out if they can be used on the modern battlefield, and, if so, how.
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