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| War of the Invisibles. Russia will win if it prepares for the battles of the future |
| 2023-08-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladislav "Gusar" Efremov [REGNUM] The tired phrase that the generals are always preparing for the last war, in 2022, sparkled with new colors. It turned out that the war was not at all like the image that was taking shape in the heads of the commanding staff. Previous experience is irrelevant. Military technology has become obsolete, and civilian technology has advanced so far that it has become impossible to wage war without them. Uninteresting in 2021, toys have become deadly weapons that have killed thousands and thousands of people. Of course, now I'm talking about drones. A lot has already been said about them, especially in the first months of the NWO. Spears broke, and military experts, who also had no idea how and in what ways the next war would be fought, doubted the benefits they brought. But - at first, the “lobbyists” of the drones were laughed in the eyes, and then it became clear that there was nothing to do on the front line without “household” quadrocopters. THE NEW FACE OF WAR Statistics now, of course, do not exist, but I'm willing to bet that more enemy soldiers were killed in this war with the help of the DJI Mavic 3 than with the help of the Kalashnikov assault rifle. Just because shooting combat is something out of the ordinary now, and searching for the enemy using drones, dropping VOGs from them and adjusting artillery with them is a constant daily painstaking work that brings results. In order to hit the enemy with a machine gun, according to common statistics, you need to fire tens of thousands of shots. In order to find enemy soldiers and point the Hyacinth at them, you need to conduct several sorties on a not very expensive quadcopter. And at the forefront, everyone understands this. The most popular command on the line of contact is “air!”. If you hear "bird", then it can see you. If she sees you, then she will either throw off the ammunition, or the information she received about your location will be used by the calculation of the gun or mortar with a predictable result. The war is moving more and more into "stealth mode". If you want to survive, you need to hide. The understanding of this fact came to the military a long time ago - in any case, in the twentieth century, dashing bayonet and horse attacks in colored uniforms gradually faded away. However, payback for visibility has never been so fast and effective. Within a few minutes, you can be overtaken and torn to shreds by either a VOG, or a homemade bomb, or a launched mine, or a large-caliber projectile. You can’t relax in the rear either - beautifully designed equipment hundreds of kilometers from the front line still becomes a target for missiles. What was the radius of destruction of the longest-range gun of the Napoleonic era? Hundreds of meters? Then it is not surprising that no one tried to hide from the enemy. Now you need to hide always and everywhere. Constantly. Do not gather in group goals - they are both more noticeable and more desirable. Do not use the technique "throughout" - it will be instantly detected, and in a matter of minutes a massive agricultural UAV with cumulative ammunition suspended from it can appear on top. Even if it is not nearby, artillery, ATGMs and dozens of other guns can work on vehicles. The war has changed, the war has acquired a new face, the contours of which were drawn by the widespread use of UAVs and the destruction of personnel with their help. DO SOLDIERS DREAM OF ELECTROKAMIKAZE Now imagine that soldiers appear on the battlefield, which, in terms of “firepower”, are comparable to a mortar battery, or even surpass it. Which can hit targets within a radius of kilometers with pinpoint precision, destroying manpower, vehicles, and armored vehicles. Which in themselves are very inconspicuous and almost do not unmask themselves during operation (unlike a mortar battery). This will mean that the "old" approach to war is finally crumbling. That trench collisions are losing their former attractiveness. That the artillery begins to give up the positions of the "god of war" and passes them on to someone else. That classic transport turns from a vehicle into a death trap. But such fighters already exist. These are operators of FPV drones - kamikaze quadrocopters, unstabilized drones carrying an explosive charge. They fly fast and penetrate anywhere - into the loophole of the pillbox, through the door of the dugout, through the window of the house, almost into the open hatch of the equipment. Quite recently, to me, a person who knows how to control "classic" quadrocopters, the use of FPV in combat seemed to be something extremely rare and far away, but no. For example, a colleague who returned from Bakhmut said that only he personally witnessed two attacks by kamikaze drones on the “loaves” transporting the wounded. Despite the high cost of equipment and the difficulty in training operators, kamikaze drones are rapidly spreading throughout the Russian army. Humanitarians also drew attention to them. Civil projects for training specialists have already arisen, FPV drones are actively purchased by volunteers and supplied to the troops. And if you think that they do not change the picture of the modern battlefield in any way, then you are mistaken. Even before I knew about the widespread use of high-speed kamikaze drones, I realized one of the main principles of this conflict: in this clash, people are divided into drone operators and those who hide from them. Now it adds even more relevance. THE AGE OF THE INVISIBLES If you slightly thicken the futuristic colors, then you can imagine that the methodology of warfare will become completely different. There is no clearly defined front line, marked by fortifications, trenches, heavy machine guns and observation posts, because any fortification attracts the attention of the enemy and becomes a target for kamikaze. There is no constantly leapfrogging artillery, because artillery is inferior to kamikaze drones in terms of efficiency and is too noticeable. There is no large transport and armored vehicles, it is vulnerable. There are no large concentrations of fighters, they are a welcome target. The era of the war of invisibles will come, armed with deadly, fast and long-range drones. Instead of a sprawling ammunition load - stores, grenades and other pouches - from the heels of combat vehicles ready to take off. Instead of honed skills in handling a machine gun - excellent flight training. The machine gun may remain as a weapon of last chance, but the main weapon is a helmet for controlling a drone. Instead of a delivery truck for personnel, there are quiet and inconspicuous electric ATVs. The imagination draws such ninjas, scurrying through the forests, plantings and ruined cities, hunting down their own kind from the air. The one who was seen first loses - it is almost impossible to run away from the “bird” released for hunting. Falconers of the twenty-first century, hidden and ubiquitous killers. A huge number of people will not be needed at the front - excellently trained units will be needed. A revived chivalry, in which a huge amount of money has been invested, capable of effortlessly destroying "classic" armies with infantry, tanks, mortars and everything else. Interesting image, isn't it? So it would have been, if not for electronic warfare. As soon as there is some advanced means of attack, there are bound to be ways to deal with it. Aviation - air defense. Tank - anti-tank grenade launcher. The bullet is body armor. But from the moment the first tank was assembled to the first salvo from an anti-tank grenade launcher, a lot of time passed. From the first shot from a rifle to the creation of a decent armor - too. Planes, on the other hand, learned to shoot down almost immediately, but they regularly fly over today's battlefields. And a lot depends on how quickly electronic warfare equipment can reduce the effectiveness of kamikaze drones, and how quickly drones learn to defend themselves against the effects of electronic warfare. Will the picture described above with pilot-knights destroying all life in their path be realized? Everything depends on the speed of development of unmanned technologies and means of protection against them, and now no one can make absolutely accurate forecasts. One thing is for sure: war is always changing. It changes every month and every day. The one who quickly adapts to new scenarios wins. And the scenario of the “war of the invisibles” that I have described may well materialize in the foreseeable future. No need to prepare for the last war. We will win if we prepare faster for the war of the future. |
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| #1 Hasta la Vista, Baby. |
| Posted by: Shinemble Omenter9007 2023-08-03 10:53 |