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The war in Ukraine has become the largest European war since World War II, and has become a theater for innovation in military technology unlike anything else in the world currently. At first, Ukraine was greatly reliant on western countries for aid, but it has come to the point where Ukraine is teaching those countries that it previously depended upon important strategies and technologies. The Ukrainian military force has evolved so much that it has become the largest and most effective fighting force in Europe. This is in part due to Ukraine’s strong tech and defense sectors, which are able to work together to create and implement the latest military technologies before anyone else in the world.
Ukraine is able to produce and deploy a wide variety of drones, which has redefined our understanding of drone warfare. These drones are mostly comprised of first person view (FPV) drones which are drones with first person cameras that usually perform suicide strikes. They inflict up to 80% of Russian battlefield casualties, which is helped by the fact that Ukraine is able to produce 200,000 of them every month. They are very cheap to manufacture and are able to destroy millions of dollars of Russian military equipment each.
Ukraine has also created a 15 km “drone wall” which is an almost impassable kill zone patrolled by drones. Ukraine has also been able to create long range drones that can attack targets deep in Russia’s territory and even create land drones that have been able to attack Russian positions on the ground. However, the Russians are also adapting and using many new methods to stop drones. They have deployed many countermeasures for Ukrainian drones from nets and cages around their tanks to electronic jammers.
I think that both sides are going to keep evolving and out performing the other. We have already seen drones that use fiber optic cables to block jamming. my questions are first, when is this cat and mouse game going to end? And second, what does this mean for the evolution of modern warfare in general? Have drones completely replaced all other methods of combat? Only time will tell.
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