"U.S.-supplied drones disappoint Ukraine at the front lines" Topic
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Tango01 | 21 Dec 2016 9:29 p.m. PST |
"Millions of dollars' worth of U.S.-supplied drones that Kiev had hoped would help in its war against Russian-backed separatists have proven ineffective against jamming and hacking, Ukrainian officials say. The 72 Raven RQ-11B Analog mini-drones were so disappointing following their arrival this summer that Natan Chazin, an advisor to Ukraine's military with deep knowledge of the country's drone program, said if it were up to him, he would return them. "From the beginning, it was the wrong decision to use these drones in our (conflict)," Chazin, an advisor to the chief of the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces, told Reuters…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Mako11 | 22 Dec 2016 2:42 a.m. PST |
A pity. One would think they'd be a bit more hardened against that sort of thing. Soviets/Russians always did have good and powerful jammers though, reportedly. Seems to me they need to be developing, unjammable, programmed drones that fly a search pattern, and then return to base without any outside control at all. |
bsrlee | 22 Dec 2016 4:41 a.m. PST |
I suspect that this is just the reason that the US supplied the drone to the Ukraine – a try out against likely opponents. Hopefully they have also sent suitable monitoring equipment to record everything that is going on. |
McKinstry | 22 Dec 2016 10:04 a.m. PST |
There are small groups of US advisors stationed along the FEBA monitoring Russian elint just for that purpose. |
Legion 4 | 22 Dec 2016 11:34 a.m. PST |
That is interesting McKinstry … Did not know that. Of course I could see why maybe that was classified. |
kiltboy | 22 Dec 2016 1:34 p.m. PST |
The Elint teams were reported a long time ago. |
grtbrt | 22 Dec 2016 2:38 p.m. PST |
There are also small teams of "contract employees" that are there -and have been for just over a year . |
TheWarStoreMan | 24 Dec 2016 6:20 a.m. PST |
I would also imagine the U.S. didn't supply the latest and greatest mods to the Ukrainians, while the Russians are using front line kit. |
Legion 4 | 30 Dec 2016 9:44 a.m. PST |
The Elint teams were reported a long time ago.
Probably why I forget about them and played into my narrative about OPSEC and all. Not letting the enemy know what you are doing, etc. |
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