👀 Previously, their range was limited to 5-10 km, but after the Brave1 tests, in which 15 manufacturers tested drones, it increased.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1908474945228697976
At 20 km, these drones, when equipped with thermal cameras, will be effective at artillery counter battery.
Overall, we can state that we have already failed the spring-summer campaign — which is still to come — not lost, but failed! We still have to lose it (it is possible that the loss will not be very noticeable, or even completely unnoticeable for the average person, but not for the specialists in the enemy camp, unfortunately...).
Once again, we have done nothing to start winning the war (and it is already April, and even if the necessary measures begin tomorrow, the first positive effect from them will not be felt before August-September (and even that is not a fact)).
For us, another (even a “draw”, or even with some minor tactical successes (like the liberation of Ugledar, etc.)) “indecisive” military campaign is already a defeat , since this is “another step” not to victory, but strictly the opposite in that “war of attrition”, the conditions of which we frivolously considered advantageous for ourselves (and, in fact, they were simply imposed on us from the outside).
In addition, it is not at all excluded that the enemy will be able to more or less successfully inflict a series of painful blows on us (I am traditionally most worried about the Crimean direction, but not only). - Then the negative effect of another protracted and bloody campaign will be even worse than is currently expected. (Although, of course, I cannot rule out and I WANT to HOPE THAT THE ENEMY WILL AGAIN NOT SUCCESS WITH HIS “COUNTER-OFFENSIVES” , but the recent “raid on Kursk Oblast” does not give any particular reason for optimism).
“You can't put your head on someone else’s shoulders.” - I see again and again how our leadership's “own desires” become “a guideline for formulating an analytical picture and a point of application of efforts, regardless of their correspondence to the actual situation.”
The leadership wants a “compromise peace on its own terms”? - This means that all other possible developments are ignored (as are the measures necessary to be carried out in “unplanned cases”).
Well, we have already observed the results of such “reality planning from above” in 2014 (in Donbass), 2015 (in Syria), 2022 (twice - at the beginning of the SVO and during the pathetic attempts to get out of it through the “Istanbul agreements”). We are observing them now... What all this will ultimately lead to - I have already written and said, probably, hundreds of times. I will not repeat myself.
With respect and gratitude, I. V. Girkin
