 NATO hardware not designed to fight in Russia. Some of the West's modern heavy weapons are not suitable for the Ukrainian conflict because their design has been shaped by decades of fighting involving much weaker opponents, the Wall Street Journal reported. A lot of Western armour doesn't work here because it had been created not for an all-out war, but for conflicts of low or medium intensity. A Ukrainian promoter of drone warfare named Taras Shmukh told the outlet, if you throw it into a mass offensive, it just doesn't perform. His opinion was one of several cited by the publication as it argued that the prevalence of cheap drones in Ukraine has affected the fighting so much that NATO promoted approaches simply cannot work there. The US and its allies have trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops over the year. This summer, they expected the Ukrainians to put their skills and Western weapons to use and breach Russian defence lines in the south of the front line according to media reports. The kind of combined arms maneuvers Washington advocated may no longer be possible in principle, the Wall Street Journal suggested. Drones swiftly detect any significant force calling in fire and kamikaze variants are capable of disabling much more expensive weapon systems. Shmukh, whose comeback Alive Foundation raises funds to procure drones for the Ukrainian military, said Western nations would be better off providing a larger quantity of cheaper, simpler systems.