“” “” Russia has unveiled a devious new battlefield tactic: use tanks as decoys in order to hunt down enemy artillery batteries.
It’s a bait-and-switch con job that relies on relies on Russian tanks, drones, artillery—and an opponent that is just a tad gullible.”” “”
That’s one strange take on this.
The point of exercise is that the rebels in East Ukraine got to use some cheap drones for artillery correction in their civil war. Normally indirect artillery fire is super inaccurate requiring hundreds of rounds to hit a specific target. Their tactics of using drones to adjust targeting real-time allowed to increase accuracy like ten-fold.
For obvious reasons tanks aren’t usually used for indirect fire because their ammo load is not sufficient to hit a target this way.
Actually borrowing the rebel tactic the Russians are overcoming a mentioned above limitation significantly increasing combat effectiveness of a tank. Combining with a counter-battery radar it also allows to employ tanks for counter-battery tasks which is novel too.
The rebels used $79 Chinese mass marker drones/ kids toys connected to iPhones to great effect in the Ukrainian Civil War.
They proved to be much more effective and widely used than the $350,000 junk drones the Marines didn’t want, that were given to government troops.