Finally! I have been waiting for this kind of news.
“In certain areas, about a quarter of combat engagements involve Ukrainian units on the offensive”, so likely the overall ratio is lower. The title should include this detail.
Its good news but Ukraine has in the past suffered a lot of armoured vehicle loses in particular along supply routes near the front. The Russians use fibre optic drones extensively to attack these.
This has exposed a gap in modern military equipment design, and the need for short range anti drone defenses that are light enough to fix to existing vehicles, or some additional mobile systems that can move along side and in front and behind columns.
Low cost automated systems which can comprise semi auto shotguns, there optical sensors and seevos are urgently needed.
I can envisage vehicles will have these for defense under 50 meters, and longer range up to say 200 or 300 meters using a programmable release cartridge with shot or flechette, that needs higher angular precision. These systems may use substantially larger cartridges, higher velocity and hence several times more recoil, which can be reduced 50% by use of rarefied wave technology, which simply exhausts some propellant gas backwards.
The use of these systems prefereably would require coordinated movements of exposed troops and controlling in which directions the automated system can operate if they are exposed, or tracking of vulnerable targets to avoid fiting towatds them, and preferably troops are moved inside an adequate armour protection.
Some dromes have been designed with recoilless shot guns, which carry extra propellant that fires backwards. This also makes mounting onto a light vehicle easier as recoil management is not an issue.
This is the tactic of their new commander as I understand it. You have to be willing to push at some points or it will be relatively easy for the enemy to control the overall battlefield. Sounds like sound reasoning to me.
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Finally! I have been waiting for this kind of news.
“In certain areas, about a quarter of combat engagements involve Ukrainian units on the offensive”, so likely the overall ratio is lower. The title should include this detail.
Its good news but Ukraine has in the past suffered a lot of armoured vehicle loses in particular along supply routes near the front. The Russians use fibre optic drones extensively to attack these.
This has exposed a gap in modern military equipment design, and the need for short range anti drone defenses that are light enough to fix to existing vehicles, or some additional mobile systems that can move along side and in front and behind columns.
Low cost automated systems which can comprise semi auto shotguns, there optical sensors and seevos are urgently needed.
I can envisage vehicles will have these for defense under 50 meters, and longer range up to say 200 or 300 meters using a programmable release cartridge with shot or flechette, that needs higher angular precision. These systems may use substantially larger cartridges, higher velocity and hence several times more recoil, which can be reduced 50% by use of rarefied wave technology, which simply exhausts some propellant gas backwards.
The use of these systems prefereably would require coordinated movements of exposed troops and controlling in which directions the automated system can operate if they are exposed, or tracking of vulnerable targets to avoid fiting towatds them, and preferably troops are moved inside an adequate armour protection.
Some dromes have been designed with recoilless shot guns, which carry extra propellant that fires backwards. This also makes mounting onto a light vehicle easier as recoil management is not an issue.
This is the tactic of their new commander as I understand it. You have to be willing to push at some points or it will be relatively easy for the enemy to control the overall battlefield. Sounds like sound reasoning to me.