How elite Russian drone units are threatening to end Ukraine’s front-line aerial dominance: New Russian drone initiatives have eroded Ukraine’s early edge in UAV warfare, reshaping the battle for the skies

https://kyivindependent.com/russians-really-scale-how-moscow-built-a-drone-system-that-now-threatens-to-tilt-the-balance-on-the-battlefield-in-ukraine/

by rulepanic

9 comments

  1. It’s not mentioned except as a caption for the picture, but the units responsible are part of Rubikon. Rubikon has been extremely effective at hunting and killing Ukrainian drone and other rear units and annihilating Ukrainian logistics. Usually when Rubikon moves into an area, Russia will soon begin to advance there.

    Ukrainian milbloggers have been talking about Ukraine needing to have a real response to Rubikon for months now. Units specifically created to hunt and kill Rubikon.

  2. Nah.

    The AI drones Ukraine look superior, they’ve just been keeping under wraps. Take a look at the latest vids.

  3. That’ll last right up to the point the UK starts sending Ukraine Dragonfire

  4. Ukraine has no aerial dominance in any part of the front. Rubicon are wrecking havoc on the Ukrainian supply lines. It’s hell out there.

  5. @ OP.

    Why’d you delete your stats that clearly show Russia doesn’t have aerial dominance? 🤣

  8. russia being russia they will ruin their edge sooner or later

  9. Russia has access to parts via China and India and has a large workforce to build and deploy drones in large amounts.

    They are not able to build tanks, planes, or missiles quickly but this is an entirely different game. These are just parts that can be ordered from other countries and assembled en mass.

    The efforts of Ukraine to build drones and the results they have yielded are honestly very impressive, but it was inevitable that the tech would eventually be used against them.

    (I feel at least) there has been a huge uptick in the number of “FPV drone videos” from Russian troops hitting Ukrainian targets on RU channels/telegram but they’re largely brigaded or deleted by mods on reddit if anyone bothers to post it at all.

    Neither country will be open about it, but I suspect the number of casualties on both sides has skyrocketed in recent months. You can see in many videos the hundreds of fiber optic cables over fields in frontline areas. Neither side has a good way to protect against such drones and they carry brutal payloads.

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