Drone swarm logistics require 10x the battery supply of conventional units with no existing supply chain

A 200-drone swarm with 25-minute flight times consumes 200 batteries per sortie. At 4 sorties per day, that is 800 batteries daily -- each requiring 1-hour charging. A battalion running multiple swarms needs thousands of batteries, hundreds of chargers, and dedicated power generation that does not exist in current military Table of Organization and Equipment. The logistics tail for drone swarms dwarfs the logistics for the drones themselves. This persists because military logistics planning is based on ammunition expenditure rates for conventional weapons, and no supply chain model exists for the consumable-drone paradigm where the weapon system itself is a single-use munition that needs continuous battery replenishment.