Good to hear more positive news about military reorganisation is Ukraine. And please keep updating on the progress of the Drone Line. It surely has the potential to be one of the most significant developments of this conflict, although the rate of technological advance is so fast I am a little skeptical. What seems innovative today, can be quickly overtaken by the other side.
The Ukrainian units listed have been on the cutting edge of drone technology throughout the war. They're always looking for better ways of doing things and to innovate at a faster rate. The Russians are also looking for that edge. If they manage to find one, as they periodically do, it is likely the Ukrainians will match them quickly.
Ukraine considered both divisions and corps organizational structures and decided it would be too expensive to establish a divisional organizational layer. They're just utilizing a Corps-brigade structure.
Whatever it's called, what's important is that there is some superior entity that can sufficiently command a limited number of brigades and coordinate their objectives, utilization and logistics. Hopefully, independent brigades and detached battalions are a thing of the past.
Nice report!! Thanks!
A few interviews from Ukraine https://meduza.io/feature/2025/03/17/otsyuda-vyhod-odin-trista-ili-dvesti
It's meduza. It's probably one of the worst sources to get any information about this war.
1) Everything looks realistic.
2) If you know of similar collections of interviews, please share them.
Good to hear more positive news about military reorganisation is Ukraine. And please keep updating on the progress of the Drone Line. It surely has the potential to be one of the most significant developments of this conflict, although the rate of technological advance is so fast I am a little skeptical. What seems innovative today, can be quickly overtaken by the other side.
The Ukrainian units listed have been on the cutting edge of drone technology throughout the war. They're always looking for better ways of doing things and to innovate at a faster rate. The Russians are also looking for that edge. If they manage to find one, as they periodically do, it is likely the Ukrainians will match them quickly.
Short BBC interviews about the withdrawal from Sudzha https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q198zyppqo
> The frequency of a drone controller signifies the presence of a drone operator. This can result in an attack on the operator.
I wonder if they will be able to move to spread spectrum communication with drones.
Spread spectrum can definitely help with detection. Money is an issue, of course.
It's spread-spectrum from day one.
Re: the lack of coordination between adjacent ground units
"One measure to reverse this practice is the formation of corps, which would integrate operations between brigades."
Corps? Isn't it the division that integrates operations between brigades? The Corps is the next level up.
Ah, you haven't been following along:
Ukraine considered both divisions and corps organizational structures and decided it would be too expensive to establish a divisional organizational layer. They're just utilizing a Corps-brigade structure.
Whatever it's called, what's important is that there is some superior entity that can sufficiently command a limited number of brigades and coordinate their objectives, utilization and logistics. Hopefully, independent brigades and detached battalions are a thing of the past.
So then would a Ukrainian corps command and coordinate maybe up to 9 brigades?
4-5. One would be a proven brigade and that brigade leader is supposed to become the corps commander.
https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-6-february-2025-zsu-corps
I liked the idea of the GLSDB, especially since they could be produced relatively cheaply in high numbers.
I hope they have fixed the problems.
One problem with the Swedish Gripen is the reliance on an US-made jet engine (GE F414).
This gives the US a large leverage against selling the jet to other states which may be not very friendly to US or their allies...
(the F414 is used in the E/F versions of the Gripen, the previous versions used a Swedish-made copy of another American engine, built under license)
Thank you for all these details.