The Impact of Drones in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Insights from a Senior Ukrainian Military Officer

2023-09-29 08:49:45
2023-09-29 16:49 Compiled by Lianhe Daily: Zhou Chenyang/Report in real time. A senior Ukrainian military officer said in an interview that the large number of drones operating on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, coupled with the provision of immediate cost…

Business Insider comprehensively reported on the 28th that a senior Ukrainian military officer said in an interview that the large number of drones operating on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, coupled with the battlefield management system that provides real-time imaging and location, means that the troops and combatants exposed in the wild It only takes a few minutes for the car to become an enemy target.

Major General Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defense (HUR), told the Wall Street Journal, “Now, a column of tanks or a column of advancing troops is detected within 3 to 5 minutes, and in another 3 If hit within 10 minutes, the survivability while moving will not exceed 10 minutes.” “The unexpected has become very difficult to achieve,” he said.

The Russia-Ukraine war is the largest conflict in Europe in nearly eighty years. Both armies have deployed thousands of drones on the battlefield and are using cheap drones to target each other’s troops. The technological revolution triggered by this is facing the U.S. military. The feasibility of some basic concepts of the Code was questioned.

Some soldiers who have participated in the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield pointed out that the use of large numbers of armored vehicles and tanks to achieve rapid breakthroughs in combined arms maneuver operations, which Washington and its allies had hoped to achieve in the Ukrainian summer offensive, may no longer be feasible in principle. . According to Ukrainian military commanders, the inevitable impact is that the conflict will not end soon.

Retired U.S. Army Sergeant Major 3rd Class Bradley Crawford, an Iraq war veteran who is now training Ukrainian troops in a private capacity near the eastern city of Bahmut, said that large-scale armored assaults and the capture of several kilometers of land at a time , like they did in Iraq in 2003, “that kind of thing has disappeared because drones have now become extremely effective.”

In addition, in possible conflicts between the United States and secondary powers, the overall military superiority of the United States may not be as decisive as previously thought. Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, told the Wall Street Journal that it is a cost issue. “If you can destroy expensive heavy systems with something that costs much less, then the relationship between the two countries is The power differential is actually not that important.”

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