from Sputnik News:
A new type of warfare is emerging in the skies over Ukraine — and it’s being shaped by a collision of cutting-edge drone tech by two powerful opposing military camps.
Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper has warned that Russia’s drone operations are growing more and more sophisticated. UAVs now have better engines, more durable navigation and communication systems, and close in on their targets from higher attack vectors to avoid flak. It’s reportedly pushing Ukraine’s war machine to the brink.
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Russia’s advances are the consequence of a conflict that has seen the “collision” of the “most modern” military technologies available – to Russia on one side and Ukraine and NATO on the other, says veteran Russian military expert Andrey Koshkin.
“The desire to constantly improve, to avoid signal suppression tools results in the creation of fiberoptic means of signal transmission; elements of AI are deployed so that drones operating in areas of heightened anti-drone defenses can still carry out their missions. In other words, innovations are being born and immediately applied, all of them aimed at improving the quality of unmanned vehicles,” Koshkin told Sputnik.
The same applies to tactics, Koshkin says, highlighting Russia’s latest strategy of deploying its drones in waves, using new attack vectors and tactics aimed at saturating air defenses, etc. Plus psychological attacks targeting Ukraine’s recruitment centers, feared and hated by most of the population, forcing them to disperse and hide in the basements of multi-story buildings, and effectively use civilians as human shields to avoid Russian attacks.
