What happens in 2025? / new tactics- new technologies

[MarkSheppard]

A lot of meaty updates in this post:

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https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status...75676129349963

🇺🇦 Ukraine already has a laser weapon "Trident", - Commander of Unmanned Systems Forces of Sukharevskiy

"Today, we can shoot down Russian planes with this laser at an altitude of over 2 km. A project is also being developed to use a "drone-mother" with two FPVs."

I wonder where it is now...

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https://x.com/Ch_Ru_GER/status/1868667960153567309

The #PLA is developing concepts for the teaming of #UAS & #Helicopters (like Z-19, Z-10 & Z-21) here within PLAGF Aviation Brigades. Diagrams from an academic paper on collaborative & cooperative capabilities between armed helicopters & #UAS (MALE/HALE) in combat posted on Weibo.

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https://x.com/GrandpaRoy2/status/1868709434945642586

Russia has published a directory of Ukrainian FPV tactics with diagrams, and suggested countermeasures.

The descriptions are basic, but the 19 separate listings are a reminder of how flexible and valuable the FPV system has become.

Source of the images are:

https://t.me/VictoryDrones/34084

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https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1868589519328391304

At the start of December, Ukraine's 13th National Guard Brigade, "Khartia," carried out its first fully robotic operation in the Kharkiv sector, employing an unprecedented number of robotic and unmanned systems. The operation, designed to set conditions for further advancements, utilized ground-based robots (including mining, demining, and kamikaze drones, as well as mobile turrets) and various UAVs (heavy bombers, observation drones, and FPVs).

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The first semi-production High Power Microwave (HPM) weapons by Epirus -- essentially rebadged radars --- have been delivered and tested by the US Army.

Results of the Leonidas testing:



https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1868300684711313484

"They [US Army - Cap & limitation tests] tried to get as many drones as they could that we would see overseas. They wanted to get drones that might have been hardened..against EM emissions.We had zero targets that we did not take down. We were 100% effective"~Andy Lowery, #Epirus

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"We invested ahead and delivered 4 systems in 15 months. You talked about reaching 'out to miles'. Yes, absolutely,we can do that. On our own money, we are building systems we call 'add a zero' to our baseline..We're talking 10 km..that type of range" ~Andy Lowery, #Epirus #GaN

[MarkSheppard]

https://x.com/RALee85/status/1869241376468353117

Madyar says that the effectiveness of FPVs in Ukrainian and Russian units is between 20-40%. This is when an FPV hits a target, the munition detonates, and the strike is recorded/confirmed.

Some commentary from another forum talking about the war:

The claimed success rate has doubled or quadrupled over 2023, when they were talking around 10%, so countermeasures are implied to be losing ground. If fiber optic control becomes standard and/or autonomous guidance becomes commonplace the success/confirmation rate could conceivably double in 2025 over 2024 (game changing countermeasures in 2025 seem less likely, but who knows).

[MarkSheppard]

https://x.com/GrandpaRoy2/status/1879221890335879330

Rows of Ukrainian “Ratel S” UGVs are ready for frontline service.

Context:

Back in April 2024:

https://x.com/GrandpaRoy2/status/1779221824150401336

Ukrainian UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) have moved from experimental prototypes to production.

These are the Ratel S, much in demand at the front, used for laying anti-tank mines or as a kamikaze.