We've been literally watching a fundamental change in war fighting evolve in almost real time. One possibility is that they weren't using jammers simply because they had their own drones operating in the area. Of course we can't tell what the Russians were or weren't trying to do in this case. Getting permanent control is practically impossible and deconfliction (sp?) is really hard. This includes small drones that spot for other weapons systems or deliver a weapon themselves. The second relevant point they make is that control of the EM spectrum allows the use of a variety of precision weapons. This footage suggests that Ukraine has set that bar pretty low or maybe just thrown the bar away! Another survival tactic RUSI considers is dispersing assets to the point where they are not worth spending a weapon on. The first is that there is no place to hide anymore except in small, hardened shelters and then only for a short time. I can't do either justice, but RUSI made 2 points applicable to this video. Take a look at the recent RUSI report or Anders Nielsen's commentary on it.
It's not hard to throw up some chicken wire, and it can be difficult to dislodge the stuff. Well, I know what the great defence against this will be: nets. Why spend ages shooting at an enemy that is hiding in a trench, or lobbing tons of mortars when you know only 1 in 1000 will land in the trench, when you can just launch a drone with some explosives attached and take the bomb directly to the enemy? Now, with drones as cheap as they are, and as agile and precise as they are, they can easily become the dominant combat weapon. Despite their small size, the racing drones can carry rocket-propelled grenades. If there was fighting between nations that had technology, we would have seen that capability be dominant on the battlefield. Now like most improvised drones popping up in Ukraine they are being adapted and fitted with munitions.
It is a clear hint of how China could intervene in Ukraine. And fire-and-forget missiles, which have been around a lot longer. A kamikaze drone reportedly attacked one of the largest microelectronics plants in Russia. Ukrainian armed forces have shared a video of a so-called kamikaze or suicide drone neutralising a Russian tank, catching the soldiers drinking alcohol on it off guard. A new video shows the launch of a Chinese made copy of the Iranian-made Shahed used by Russia. Link Copied CNNs Tom Foreman explains how kamikaze drones work, and how Ukrainian soldiers are using them to gain an advantage against Russia.
The Aegis system is an excellent example of it - a ship defense that acts before human operators could recognize and respond to a threat. Automation of warfare and weapons was dominant for the last 10 or 20 years - except there was no actual fighting between advanced powers, so we never got to see that happen.
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