(13.02.2025, 15:44)Quintus Fabius schrieb: Was an sich keine Neuigkeit ist. Was hier der bemerkenswerte Umstand ist, den ich hiermit ergänzend anführen möchte ist, dass die hier verwendeten Drohnen per Kabel gesteuert waren, auf eine Distanz von mehreren Kilometern.

Zitat:Tactical Developments During the Third Year of the Russo–Ukrainian War
by Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds

Introduction

If a side does not achieve victory within the opening phases of a conflict, protracted
warfare necessitates a continuous process of adaptation and counter-adaptation between the
parties. The Russo–Ukrainian War has been consistent with this trend, such that the
fighting in the first, second and third years of the war saw substantial changes in the
composition of forces, equipment, tactics and relative competitive advantages of the
combatants. The first year of the war was characterised by comparatively small groupings
of well-equipped forces resulting in a mobile conflict. The second year saw the
consolidation of areas of control and deliberate attempts to breach the line of contact, first
by Russia and then by Ukraine. The third year was highly attritional, with the focus of both
parties being the infliction of maximum damage on one another, rather than breakthrough.
The available technology with which the war has been waged has also evolved over this
period.

The authors of this paper have worked in Ukraine throughout the conflict, and documented
the character of the fighting at intervals, noting tactical developments and their operational
implications for Ukraine, for support provided by Ukraine’s international partners, and for
training and equipment programmes among NATO forces. This report builds on this work,
providing an overview of tactical developments as they stand in February 2025 as the war
enters its fourth year. The purpose of this paper is to describe the systems of fighting
employed by Russian and Ukrainian forces and to identify where changes in how the forces
fight reflect peculiarities of the current situation and where they suggest significant changes
that will endure.

This is not an academic study. This paper constitutes research notes from fieldwork
conducted in November 2024 and January 2025. As this work was written in Ukraine and
under conditions consistent with operational security, it does not engage with wider
commentaries on the current character of the war. That does not suggest any inadequacy in
other studies, and the conclusions and observations in this paper should be read in parallel
with similar work carried out by a range of esteemed colleagues. Please also note that this
paper provides a discussion of tactics and not an assessment as to the likely outcome of
engagements by sector. It does not set out to make predictions.

(14.02.2025, 22:35)Quintus Fabius schrieb: Das ist hier schon mehrfach thematisiert worden. Die 20 km sind allerdings russische Fantasievorstellungen. Real sind solche Drohnen aber inzwischen durchaus bis zu 10 km einsetzbar. Die meisten Typen kommen real maximal 8 km weit, die durchschnittliche Einsatzentfernung ist aber meist noch wesentlich geringer, und liegt bei um die 5 km. Was keineswegs schlecht ist, ganz im Gegenteil, dass ist bemerkenswert.

Zitat: Ultra-compact and lightweight, it is mounted directly on the drone. It is designed for missions of up to 10 km deployment at high speed, both in the air and in deep water! It has been tested at 150 km/h in the air & 20 knots underwater.

(15.02.2025, 10:07)Pmichael schrieb: In dem Werbevideo sind sie nach dem weggeworfenem Glasfaserkabel beurteilend auch nur hundert Meter weit geflogen.

(15.02.2025, 15:03)Pmichael schrieb: Unabhängig von der tatsächlichen Reichweite dieser Drohnen in der Praxis, muss man natürlich sagen, dass eine grundsätzlich eine ad-hoc low tech Lösung ist, die mit fundamentalen Nachteilen daher kommt.

Wenn ich mir da die HX-2 von Hellsing anschaue: 12KG, 100km Reichweite, bis zu 220km/h, schwarmfähig und Störfestigkeit durch KI and georeferenzierten Kartenbildern ist, dann frage ich mich ob dieser Drohnentyp halt aus den schwächlichen technischen Mittel der Russen entstanden ist.

Zitat:Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected a Trump administration request this week that Kyiv hand over 50 percent of its rare-earth mineral resources in exchange for continued U.S. assistance to the war-struck country. Ukrainian officials are working on a counterproposal that would still offer Washington more access to the country’s natural resources, four people familiar with the discussions said.

(15.02.2025, 18:53)Zardo schrieb: Die Ukraine möchte nicht die Hälfte ihrer Seltene-Erden-Bodenschätze an die USA abtreten, um so weiterhin militärische Unterstützung zu erhalten...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/15/ukraine-rejects-trump-administration-request-half-its-mineral-wealth/

(15.02.2025, 19:15)lime schrieb: Trump sucht doch nur einen Grund die Unterstützung einstellen zu können.

Zitat:Kellogg dropped the bombshell at the Munich Security Conference after Europeans for a week had scrambled to emphasise no Ukraine peace talks should happen without Kyiv or them.

Asked whether Europeans should have a role in future talks, Kellogg said he was “from the school of realism, and that is not going to happen”.

Zitat:“To my European friends, I would say: get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or no, be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up [defence] spending,” Kellogg said.

Zitat:A Plan for Ukraine? US General Ketih Kellogg is joined by Ukraine Foreign Minister, UK Foreign Minister, Poland Foreign Minister and Lithuanian Foreign Minister at the Munich Security Conference.