One major oversight: Ukraine receives targeting, route planning, and other such intelligence from NATO, specifically MI-6 and the CIA. Same can be said for R&D, platform development, and parts procurement. Of course, Russia has the receipts.
Thanks for sharing this article with your readers.
Could you perhaps clarify why Ukraine’s ‘good remote operators and pilots, talented and motivated software engineers, and battlefield experience’ provide it with an advantage over Russia, as this seems counterintuitive.
Why does Ukraine have so many qualified operators but Russia is struggling to train them? Wouldn’t that be counterintuitive since Russia has a far larger population?
Russia has ten times the number of trained operators. Ukraine can't keep trained operators because they get sent into battle where they stay until they are killed. The Ukrainian army is almost entirely conscript. No one trains in drone operation in high school to join the army when they graduate.
The Russian army is only ten percent conscript and they don't get sent outside of Russia by law. In Russia, every high school and college has a large cohort of students playing video games especially designed to lead in to joining the highly paid, elite corps of Russian military drone operators. Namely the Rubikon group, much feared by Ukrainian troops. It is close to reaching its target of fifty thousand operators. Not just guys that can launch a hand held drone but experts trained for years. Those troops are rotated from the front line to working in the drone factories with the workers there to bring their battle field experience directly to the production facility. And of course, they get even more grounding in the workings of the drones they use in combat.
The author of this article should send it to the Ukrainian troops on the front line. They need a good laugh given their situation of living in terror from a sky filled with Russian drones of all types with all different types of attack modes. At least that is what the Ukrainian troops say.
As evidenced by this article the Ukrainian oligarchs who control drone production in return for the billions received from the west say their drones are just wonderful and control the skies.
Thank you for the reply. Yea, that part of the analysis seemed a bit odd just simply based on the difference in population size. I like his work, he just seems a bit biased towards the West. But maybe Im wrong.
One major oversight: Ukraine receives targeting, route planning, and other such intelligence from NATO, specifically MI-6 and the CIA. Same can be said for R&D, platform development, and parts procurement. Of course, Russia has the receipts.
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Thanks for sharing this article with your readers.
Could you perhaps clarify why Ukraine’s ‘good remote operators and pilots, talented and motivated software engineers, and battlefield experience’ provide it with an advantage over Russia, as this seems counterintuitive.
Thank you again.
Why does Ukraine have so many qualified operators but Russia is struggling to train them? Wouldn’t that be counterintuitive since Russia has a far larger population?
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Russia has ten times the number of trained operators. Ukraine can't keep trained operators because they get sent into battle where they stay until they are killed. The Ukrainian army is almost entirely conscript. No one trains in drone operation in high school to join the army when they graduate.
The Russian army is only ten percent conscript and they don't get sent outside of Russia by law. In Russia, every high school and college has a large cohort of students playing video games especially designed to lead in to joining the highly paid, elite corps of Russian military drone operators. Namely the Rubikon group, much feared by Ukrainian troops. It is close to reaching its target of fifty thousand operators. Not just guys that can launch a hand held drone but experts trained for years. Those troops are rotated from the front line to working in the drone factories with the workers there to bring their battle field experience directly to the production facility. And of course, they get even more grounding in the workings of the drones they use in combat.
The author of this article should send it to the Ukrainian troops on the front line. They need a good laugh given their situation of living in terror from a sky filled with Russian drones of all types with all different types of attack modes. At least that is what the Ukrainian troops say.
As evidenced by this article the Ukrainian oligarchs who control drone production in return for the billions received from the west say their drones are just wonderful and control the skies.
Thank you for the reply. Yea, that part of the analysis seemed a bit odd just simply based on the difference in population size. I like his work, he just seems a bit biased towards the West. But maybe Im wrong.
no, not wrong. Stephen is a die-hard globalist fan boi