Thats what he meant.
Akinci/Reaper/Ch5/6 etc alone against modern air defence is worthless.
However, we are talking about full-scale wars here. In Operation Spring Shield, combat aircraft were not the primary focus. Therefore, this type of argument is no longer valid. In Operation Spring Shield, we weren't focused on striking Russia. Our focus was on overwhelming the Assad regime with electronic warfare and dismantling it with UAVs. Therefore, the power projection remained at the operative level.
However, in a war with Iran, there is an expectation of a strategic-level projection.
Therefore, you cannot compare the expectation-need cycle here with an operative-level operation.
With command headquarters and air bases at risk of being hit, and the speed of the sensor-to-shooter cycle being crucial, a $5 million SAR radar has to be a disposable asset. Because you have to make decisions and conduct operations that will win or lose the war. It's a knife-edge situation here. The US couldn't keep up with the detection and subsequent destruction cycle of kamikaze drones. Thus, ballistic missile early warning radars were destroyed by Saheed kamikaze drones. Or Saheed kamikaze drones overwhelmed air defense systems. Afterwards, these radars were destroyed by ballistic missiles.
We won't only use Akıncı or Aksungur in offensive operations. Someone needs to be on guard in the air with AESA radars against kamikaze attacks. The fact that Israel's F-35s can hunt down Akıncı or Aksungur like quail shouldn't mean we give them up.
You might ask, "Why do we need this when we have air defense systems?"
-First of all, it's necessary to increase saturation.
-Now, in command and control centers, artificial intelligence automatically detects your weak points during operations and shifts forces to exploit those vulnerabilities. To keep the system dynamic and make it harder to detect your weaknesses, you need to keep armed UAVs in the air.
-The quantitative scarcity of air defense systems may prevent them from being sufficient to cover all critical facilities.
-The use of inexpensive missiles like the Eren is essential for stock management in air defense missiles.
