Posted on 09/06/2025 2:34:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Models for reconnaissance, rescue, interception and attack are changing the way both sides operate
“It’s more exhausting,” says Afer, a deputy commander of the “Da Vinci Wolves”, describing how one of the best-known battalions in Ukraine has to defend against constant Russian attacks. Where once the invaders might have tried small group assaults with armoured vehicles, now the tactic is to try and sneak through on foot one by one, evading frontline Ukrainian drones, and find somewhere to hide.
Under what little cover remains, survivors then try to gather a group of 10 or so and attack Ukrainian positions. It is costly – “in the last 24 hours we killed 11,” Afer says – but the assaults that previously might have happened once or twice a day are now relentless. To the Da Vinci commander it seems that the Russians are terrified of their own officers, which is why they follow near suicidal orders.
Reconnaissance drones monitor a burnt-out tree line west of Pokrovsk; the images come through to Da Vinci’s command centre at one end of a 130-metre-long underground bunker. “It’s very dangerous to have even a small break on watching,” Afer says, and the team works round the clock. The bunker, built in four or five weeks, contains multiple rooms, including a barracks for sleep. Another is an army mess with children’s drawings, reminders of family. The menu for the week is listed on the wall.
It is three and a half years into the Ukraine war and Donald Trump’s August peace initiative has made no progress. Meanwhile the conflict evolves. Afer explains that such is the development of FPV (first person view) drones, remotely piloted using an onboard camera, that the so-called kill zone now extends “12 to 14 kilometres” behind the front – the range...
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I’ve felt most wars now will be started with drones but when one country runs out of drones what happens next? An invasion and troops fighting ground and manned aircraft battles like in the good old days?
When you run out of soldiers, use unmanned weapons and fight on.
When you run out of soldiers make the weapons autonomous.
Gads, the Brits are blowhards.
Bkmk
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