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The US Army's upcoming budget is set to supercharge investments towards its new focus on unmanned and electronic warfare technology, signaling a major shift in current defense strategy. How do you believe these changes will impact the future of military operations? https://lnkd.in/gNKefjfQ Continue the conversation in the comments below... #defenseinnovation #strategy #futureofwarfare #globalordnance

On Friday I posted about the US Army pivoting to "small" electronic warfare (EW) through the use of small, relatively inexpensive commercial computers, radios, platforms, etc. that could be reconfigured in the field, or "transformed in place". The Army is committed to this idea and is attempting to get support for a budget that would support this idea. In many ways the greater accessibility and fast development pace of the building blocks of "small" EW means it's harder to craft a budget that will support their use. DoD budgets rely on defined requirements, identifying components, techniques, etc. well ahead of funding approval. That doesn't mesh with fast-paced development. To keep up with budget timelines, there needs to be a bit of trust to allocate future money whose use is not well-defined at the time of allocation. For reasons mentioned in the article, this is done to ensure that the DoD is a good steward of taxpayer money, but it takes away the flexibility to react in real-time to changing conditions. Anyone who has done business with the DoD understands how difficult changing this paradigm will be. Good luck to the Army. #ew #electronicwarfare #smallew #army #dod #budget https://lnkd.in/eb9ba6KM

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As a former Armor & Cavalry officer it pains me to read this, but important lesson for modern warfare: Eastern Ukraine CNN — Ukrainian crews working on US-supplied Abrams tanks have told CNN of a series of the weaknesses and flaws with the armored vehicles, calling into doubt their utility on the war’s ever-changing frontlines.   Crews trained in Germany said the vehicles – the US military’s main $10 million battle tank used in Iraq against Saddam Hussein’s forces and insurgents – lacked armor that could stop modern weapons.   “Its armor is not sufficient for this moment,” said one crew member, callsign Joker. “It doesn’t protect the crew. For real, today this is the war of drones. So now, when the tank rolls out, they always try to hit them.”   Much of the Ukrainian frontline is now dominated by the use of self-destructing attack drones, tiny and accurate devices that can swarm infantry and even cause significant damage to tanks. The advent of these so called First-Person Vision (FPV) drones, flown by soldiers wearing gaming goggles, has changed the nature of the war, limiting movement and introducing a new element of vulnerability to armored vehicles.   Ammunition is also a problem, like elsewhere on the Ukrainian frontline. They say they seem to have the wrong type for the fight they are in. “What we have is more for direct tank-to-tank fights, which happens very rarely,” Joker said. “Much more often we work as artillery. You need to take apart a tree-line or a building. We had a case when we fired 17 rounds into a house and it was still standing.”   The Ukrainian crew expressed frustration the tanks were made for a NATO style of warfare, in which air power and artillery prepare the battlefield before tanks and infantry advance. Kyiv has long bemoaned its lack of artillery and air power. #ukraine #warinukraine #greatpowercompetition #usarmy #technology #tanks #slavaukraini https://lnkd.in/dTa9cXHy

What BS, While Abrams not perfect, many of the claims by this guy don't add up. Well for 1, as a national security expert would know. Ukraine's M1 do not have the same armour package as US Abrams, that is they lack the depleted uranium armour and other additions US M1's have. 2. M1 not designed for this new warfare. Ukrainians are developing new additional armour like cope cages and Kontak ERA. 3. Ukrainians love their Western tanks because they are more comfortable, have better survivability even when hit and have much better night vision and fire control systems. The fact they are designed for tank on tank is well known. Clear RuSSian BS. Abrams not perfect but much better than Russian tanks.

https://lnkd.in/dkykJ-ZX The Future of Warfare Is Electronic An audacious Ukrainian incursion into Russia shows why. Is the Pentagon paying enough attention? By Porter Smith and Nathan Mintz Sept. 4, 2024 12:35 pm ET The Ukrainian army has launched a stunning offensive into Kursk, Russia, under a shield of advanced electronic weapons. The war in Ukraine is demonstrating that 21st-century conflicts will be won or lost in the arena of electronic warfare. Think of electronic warfare as casting spells on an invisible battlefield. Combatants strive to preserve their own signals, while disrupting those of the enemy. In Kursk, the Ukrainians took advantage of their technical knowledge to achieve a leap in battlefield tactics. Using a variety of electronic sensing systems, they managed to figure out the key Russian radio frequencies along the invasion route. They jammed these frequencies, creating a series of electronic bubbles that kept enemy drones away from Ukrainian forces, allowing reconnaissance units, tanks and mechanized infantry to breach the Russian border mostly undetected. This is the chaotic way of modern combat: a choreography of lightweight, unmanned systems driven by a spiderweb of electronic signals.

The Return of Trench Warfare? Modern warfare is experiencing a déjà vu moment as heavy firepower—artillery, drones, and guided munitions—makes maneuvering hazardous and pushes armies back into trench warfare tactics. Just as in WWI, the focus has shifted to digging in to survive, as seen in Ukraine. But what’s the path forward? The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests a solution: temporarily suppressing the defensive "drone-artillery complex" to enable maneuver operations once again. With innovation, electronic warfare, and smarter tactics, can maneuver warfare make a comeback? #MilitaryStrategy #Defense #Warfare #Innovation #UkraineWar https://lnkd.in/dUfcVFhn

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr strikes three Ukrainian brigades over past day Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr struck three Ukrainian army brigades and inflicted roughly 110 casualties on enemy troops in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported. "Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted casualties on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 128th mountain assault, 35th marine infantry and 124th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Stepnogorsk in the Zaporozhye Region, Novotyaginka and Antonovka in the Kherson Region," the ministry said. The Ukrainian army’s losses in that frontline area over the past 24 hours amounted to 110 personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, a 152mm Giatsint-B field gun, three 152mm D-20 howitzers, a 122mm Gvozdika motorized artillery system, a British-made 105mm L119 howitzer and two Bukovel-AD electronic warfare stations, it specified. Russian troops wipe out Ukrainian UAV assembly workshops over past day Russian troops destroyed Ukrainian UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) assembly workshops over the past day, the ministry reported. "Operational/tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces destroyed workshops for the assembly of unmanned aerial vehicles and struck massed enemy manpower and military equipment in 164 areas," the ministry said. (Part Four, Continued in Part Five in the next post) #business #finance #financialservices

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧 Excerpts: "For a long time, the US Army assumed the US Air Force would protect it from enemy aircraft. Which is why, in the 1990s, the Army shuttered many of its short-range air-defense, or SHORAD, units." "This process only accelerated during the counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the Army was fighting an enemy with no aircraft." "By the time Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, the Army was down to just 300 or so aging Avenger air-defense vehicles, each firing infrared-guided Stinger missiles out to a distance of three miles. This to protect a million troops, if you count active and reserve forces." "The Army didn’t anticipate that nine years into the Russia-Ukraine war, both sides would weaponize tiny, cheap first-person-view (FPV) drones – and fling them at each other at a rate of tens of thousands per month." by David Axe Full article: https://lnkd.in/eJakwBPp