“Radical Shift In Warfighting”: Real-Time Soldiers Fight Real Soldiers In Ukraine War; Emerge Victorious
In another innovation in the drone war between Russia and Ukraine, Kyiv is using large UAVs with ‘repeaters’ to relay signals and control other latent kamikaze Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to strike Russian soldiers.
The employment of small suicide drones in anti-infantry roles is preventing Russian soldiers from coming to the frontlines or getting picked out by the UAVs. Russia’s credible electronic warfare (EW), too, is catching up, and a top retired Ukrainian general admitted how Moscow keeps finding new ways to jam the UAVs.
The developments follow previous analyses in the EurAsian Times, which reported on the escalation of the drone war and rapidly developing tactics ever since both countries began strapping commercial quadcopters with explosives. The technological advantage keeps shifting as Ukraine adopts a loitering munition-centric strategy for all its land warfare roles, including as substitutes for artillery.
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