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Artillery deployed drones. There. I can have the cake and eat it. More seriously, there's inevitably going to be a blurry line between smart submunitions and drones at some point.

@dan/california Seen as though I was eyeballing it. Having to re-read it to edit this post down only makes it sound crazier.

It kinda looks like he's trying to say that Ukraine can't possibly prevail in a war of attrition against Russia, so they needed a sexy Western-style decisive victory to prevail- specifically the envelopment and annihilation of Russian columns stalled on the way to Kyiv. But he also explicitly says that probably wouldn't have delivered victory anyway and now its stalemate. So... I dunno. It think at best its not even analysis, at worst its rehashing Russian propaganda points from a different angle.

I have no idea what point that guy is trying to make.

Yeah. There are plenty of possibilities, not all of them false flag and if there's anything Putin has shown himself to not be it's the 4d chessmaster Bond villian we all thought he was before 2022. No doubt more details (and 'more details') will come out, but the timing seems awfully convenient.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/shooting-blast-reported-concert-hall-near-moscow-agencies-2024-03-22/ Quick tinfoil hat take: Putin secures election 'legitimacy' Peskov says it's no longer a Special Military Operation, it's a War Terror attack in Moscow ... Mobilisation

That's from January 2020

I don't think a flechette round is going to do anything that your basic 5.56/7.62 isn't- the problem looks more like drones are very difficult to hit, rather than current ammunition doesn't do enough damage. It's got me wondering though- how big do jammers need to be to be effective? Could you stick one inside a 40mm grenade with a parachute and bloop them off into the sky a la instant EW barrage balloons?

I'm surprised no-one's tried fitting an ASROC to a maritime drone yet. Nothing like extending the range of a torpedo another 20km by jamming a rocket up it's arse and firing it into the air.

I don't remember seeing Abrams yet: Hard to tell exactly what's doing the fighting later on in the video- or if it's Abrams shooting at stuff- but it looks a lot like Abrams in CMBS shooting straight through things.

Nothing like flying drones inside buildings:

[Edit: Ok, I missed that this popped up earlier in thread. But hey, looks like that video got deleted so at least there's a link again.] Back to the Tactical problem- this is apparently from a foreign volunteer unit, so plenty of English being spoken. Clearing trenches, kamikaze drones, and at 7:50 some absolute mind-boggling insanity. Seriously, that's the craziest thing I think I've seen so far.

To chip in on the WW1 front- The interplay of tactics on both sides is important. The only reason the Germans could suceed with infiltration tactics in 1918 was because the Allies were reorganising to dispersed defence in depth. Infiltration attacks in 1915-17 would have found no gaps to exploit... hence the Allies doubled down on the scripted set piece. And that's to some definition of 'suceed'. There were plenty of German infiltration type attacks in the Spring Offensive that were massacred to no effect. But anyway, back to the war in Ukraine... I'm sure we'll see the same dynamic.

@The_Capt Not focused entirely in on Ukraine, but what John Antal thinks: