I do hope Ukrainians capture lots of Russian recruits. They are a bargain indeed. Interesting enough their parents seem to have some leverage over the authorities. Quite typically, they do not give a shit about the other Russians or indeed the genocidal war of destruction against Ukraine.
Otherwise, I doubt that authorities would care too much about the parents, but conscripts in captivity do make Putin look bad. Mind he still maintains that only 'volunteers' face the risks of the 'special operation', people who have been paid for it. If conscripts become casualties, it might seem that the whole thing is becoming a proper war, reach Russia and spiral out of his control.
War pushes military technology at much higher rates than peacetime research. And often in previously unexpected directions. Particularly when the conflict goes on for some time.
Drones have been around for decades, but in lower intensity conflicts were primarily reconnaissance or 'targeted assassination tools. Israel (not sure what other nations were working on at that time) did up the ante with the drones supplied to Azerbaijan for its defeat of Armenia in Nagorno-Krabakh, but that was over quickly and there was no real time (or likely the resources) for Armenia to develop counter measures.
Iran and other nations obviously did get into the game, but the rate of development and usage has vastly accelerated.
As an aside, I remember a story in a collection of military SF from at least thirty years ago that stated that the era of infantry on the battlefield was over due to anti-personnel drones. These would home in on human targets using body heat and other signatures and explode killing the targeted soldier. IFF transponders were implanted in the respective armies troops to prevent 'blue on blue' incidents. Of course, as noted by Tom's posts on aerial warfare an IFF transponder can then become another means of locating a target.
Now we see individual soldiers being being targeted with drone delivered grenades, with a push to develop the Ai to make those drones independent...
Thank you. That GPS news is very interesting indeed.
"He also said that Ukraine started production of its own 155 mm shells without providing current or target production numbers."
Probably related to this :https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/oppskrift/id3051006/
I do hope Ukrainians capture lots of Russian recruits. They are a bargain indeed. Interesting enough their parents seem to have some leverage over the authorities. Quite typically, they do not give a shit about the other Russians or indeed the genocidal war of destruction against Ukraine.
Afghanistan flashbacks kick in.
Otherwise, I doubt that authorities would care too much about the parents, but conscripts in captivity do make Putin look bad. Mind he still maintains that only 'volunteers' face the risks of the 'special operation', people who have been paid for it. If conscripts become casualties, it might seem that the whole thing is becoming a proper war, reach Russia and spiral out of his control.
War pushes military technology at much higher rates than peacetime research. And often in previously unexpected directions. Particularly when the conflict goes on for some time.
Drones have been around for decades, but in lower intensity conflicts were primarily reconnaissance or 'targeted assassination tools. Israel (not sure what other nations were working on at that time) did up the ante with the drones supplied to Azerbaijan for its defeat of Armenia in Nagorno-Krabakh, but that was over quickly and there was no real time (or likely the resources) for Armenia to develop counter measures.
Iran and other nations obviously did get into the game, but the rate of development and usage has vastly accelerated.
As an aside, I remember a story in a collection of military SF from at least thirty years ago that stated that the era of infantry on the battlefield was over due to anti-personnel drones. These would home in on human targets using body heat and other signatures and explode killing the targeted soldier. IFF transponders were implanted in the respective armies troops to prevent 'blue on blue' incidents. Of course, as noted by Tom's posts on aerial warfare an IFF transponder can then become another means of locating a target.
Now we see individual soldiers being being targeted with drone delivered grenades, with a push to develop the Ai to make those drones independent...
It would be nice if Canada actually bought some Senators as well for our army to be used as ambulances and CP's
Thank you Don, this is an interesting report sounds like sometime in the future GPS will be outdated
I'm not an expert, but if a quantum compass makes GPS unnecessary for missiles, GPS will still likely have other uses for quite some time.
I'm thinking about missiles of course GPS will be around for other nav uses
“... the only country that has so far shot down a Russian UAV is Belarus ...” says all one needs to know about NATO, really
It's an issue.