Drones for war. Are we rich to buy cheap things

At the same time, civil society has a somewhat distorted understanding of the work of air intelligence, so I will try to describe some situations so that you understand priorities. " Opinion. The war now put one unchanged rule on the battlefield - without drones. In general, the present war has broken many templates. There have been no confrontation with such use of artillery, air defense and HPs for a long time.

Moreover, with artillery, which uses high -precision ammunition, with castrated aviation, which works on positions not with dive, but from cabin, which limits its efficiency. But the effectiveness of artillery, which with the adjustment of UAV, is able to fully kill in the land of BTGRI.

Artillery, as the cheapest and most effective way of wholesale enemy destruction, has a high efficiency only when it is corrected by a good UAV crew, firing on the coordinates already necoromif, visual adjustment of the fighter on the spot also has a restriction because you take such a point to see the whole sector. On which your art work is a very rare opportunity. Therefore, drones are an inseparable complex of this war.

Although, without art, aero-intelligence officers do many other work, they conduct sniper groups, accompany the movement of columns, ensure the work of sabotage and intelligence groups, coordinate offenses, reveal air defense/HRO systems, find goals and coordinate the work of shock UAVs and baroiding ammunition. That is, the range of tasks is wide, and the battlefield is stuffed with a rebel and air defense.

At the same time, civil society has a somewhat distorted understanding of the work of air intelligence, so I will try to describe some situations for you to understand priorities. Because for most civilian work with UAVs - it is like their "Mavik" in the park - raised, flew that can be difficult here at all?! Therefore, they have been experiencing their experiences on the military, not understanding what is needed by the military and for what.

Especially given the fact that while the military aerial reconnaissance worked on the front line, a pile of various guru, which was engaged in copter, drove DJI products, developed in aircraft modeling, and now assumed the role of a mouthpiece on the topic of UAV trends. Two worlds turn out - real and Facebook. At the same time, the Facebook world is distrustful of state institutions and trust in volunteers and often layers the harmful narratives in general.

One of them - we need cheap drones and many, let's support the domestic manufacturer, look, we can make a plane from Aliexpress details for a couple of bucks, that's what we need to focus on. It is bad that this narrative is picked up by some people without realizing its harm to the army. Because in the first place for the UAV should be not the price, but its technical characteristics, which allow you to perform combat missions. Price is just a consequence.

When you get a UAV complex with a large tool that can be stable on the battlefield, its cost usually pays off, unless, of course, the crew is not deer. But cheap UAVs, as a rule, do not pay off. This is the phenomenon. And now we will look at situations that may clarify the picture uninitiated. As a rule, civilians think that aero -intelligence - it raised the side into the sky, found something, well, there arta hit. But no. The task is first. For example, it is an art.

The work area determines above the command. That is, the sector is taken, in which, for example, the enemy art is moved, and our task is a counter -bacdyarka. We determine the place of work, the optimal takeoff point, we take radio intelligence data in the area and form a flight plan and "green corridors" from air defense. Not a panacea, of course, but increases the chances of not catching a rocket from Thor on board. After that, coordination with a rob.

This is also important because our IEP works under the motto "We do not fly and do not give others, especially our". The flight area, frequency of your board, working height is all agreed with the Rebam and Air Defense. Such work is needed that air defense and the HR to understand the position of our board in the sky and can distinguish it from "Orlan", from fright without pouring on their bird, especially given that 400/900 channels near the sides often intersect.

The following is the work with artillery, artillery, understanding its task, plans the optimal firing points and doublelers for counter-batteries, since now more than four fast volleyes from one place to shoot-is very threatened with health. The counter -batteries of the Russians have, they work out in the counterbutar.

Art and Aeraconian know where anyone works, how much time it takes (usually at this time the boards are returned for a recharge, unless, of course, it is a variety) and even how many shells are allocated for surgery and which ones. Before leaving, all sides of this operation are familiar with the latest intelligence. And it's time to pour.

At the moment when the UAV group came to a point and decomposed, all this huge organism, edges, air defense, commands that want to solve the situation on the battlefield because our infantry dies at this moment, artillery, which "well" well , we are ready, we have come down, what teenage time of the bird to the goal? ", Their views are aimed at the work of air intelligence. Because there should now be a key point in the operation. The picture should appear, goals and work should begin.

And the worst thing that can happen at this point is when aero -intelligence agencies are aired with a phrase: "We were extinguished by a rebon, we have no video signal, we cannot work. " And all, all this organization that I described above goes into *pub. They go to *Packing paladins, charged with escaryalibra, go into *POE Bukovel, ready to press enemy "eagles" in the area of ​​our arts, go into *PLA "plastuns", which are made at this time by radio. All, Ales cabbage.

And this is very bad, because somewhere there remained uninhabited by the enemy art, which in this sector worked quietly in our positions, killing the fighters and burning our equipment until the command finds the UAV crew that can complete the task. This example can be reflected to other tasks. The sniper group that was comforted by the information that they are going to work blindly today at their own risk, because there will be no eye from heaven.

On the assault group, which without air intelligence should now be stored in the enemy planting, not realizing what is there now. To a group of shock drones, which now has a shock copy and explore, and to work, which greatly reduces the chance of returning the copter.

And what argument will the Aero -Intelligent Command or all the people he interacts with? "Yes, of course it didn't work out, you keep there, but I have only two pieces of bucks, volunteers fit, it's better than nothing?" In such a formulation, everyone with whom you coordinated for tasks, all those people who realized that their coordination was in vain, that at first TTH wings did not allow the task, and all this runner and lost such precious time is all The surgery ended, the aerial intelligence is quite popular and explained in the Army, who are the people who gave them poor UAVs, where it can be shot down by air intelligence, how deep and whether it should be collected or placed there in a disassembled version.

And since the aerial intelligence should have a positive effect, the specified UAV team can go and dig trenches, which will do something useful for its brigade. And it is clear. Because it is complete idiocy to take paladins with high -precision shells, the cost of one projectile in a good lexus, to tie a few million dollars to support the Reb worth a few million, hunting for target Uaks worth a couple of thousand dollars. Because the accounting department of war does not work.

Even if your wing costs 150 thousand euros, and you found a tank on it (not T-62, of course) or MSTU and hit it with an escalyibur, but then this wing knocked Thor-you already went out. Because it is better to destroy the target and lose the wing than to do nothing at all. In the cost of equipment that resists each other, the cost of the UAV itself is quite insignificant. One thing to do is to complete the task and allow the art to be able to destroy the goals set before this group.

Therefore, military UAVs should have a level lower than they simply make no sense because they do not allow the task to complete the task. Yes, maybe the situation when the Rebvets-Mumchan sweated and sleeps behind the remote, the air defense was also busy with something, and an inexpensive board flew somewhere and gathered information.

But the indicator is not it, but the opportunity for day after day, stable and predicted to perform these tasks in any situation, and when the edges presses so that you do not understand how there are Mokshan, which stands in the antennas, lymph does not boil from this Microwels on the Maximalki, when GPS is gone and will not be, and no CRPA will help here, since the sources that suffocate it are also several, and in the area the airborne reconnaissance activity is opened, and therefore twisted the Voon that sector from a distance of 7-10 km , there is somewhere in ** the son of the Odin Rlakian sky.

And telemetry and video channel are pressed, as without it for full happiness. Well, the question, of course, is still in the safety of pilots. If you have a complex with a steady connection and good flight time, then you can take off outside the work of 152 mm art. Of course, your enemy rebel, of course, is triangular, but if there is no tornado or hurricane at hand, you will simply not get you.

And from the RSSV you can hide behind a tactical crest, the main thing is not to approach close to the line. Cheap complexes do not have such capabilities in a constant connection, so aerotevists should approach the line of contact, getting into the area of ​​the lesion not only 152 mm, but even mortar batteries of the enemy. The story, as throwing the land station and not waiting for the back to the landing point, the UAV crew dumped in the environment of artillery arrivals - is enough.

And well, when everything ends well, no matter how much the complex costs, 100,000 or a million is not as important as the price of human life crew. On Facebook, I am bombing from the phrase "Well, every wing for its tasks, cheap too". Children, whatever task you are drawing, will be everywhere. The air defense will be everywhere. And an enemy who is very good to counteract UAVs is he.

What kind of hostilities do you draw a task at such a fighting theater if your board is not even "Moscow-1", but a banal "force", which is like dirt? The armies need UAV. And their deficit is clear, because what will happen this format of hostilities have suggested. Ukrainian manufacturers were unable to saturate the UAV army, because the bolt was killed in the active phase.

Western manufacturers of plus minus of serious UAVs, which can work relatively effectively in the current aggressive sky, also did not make up dozens and hundreds of complexes "and suddenly someone will buy in the future, let them lie down. " It is not necessary to speak about military UAVs, they are very expensive and rare complexes, the production cycle of which is quite significant, tied to specific components, hemorrhoids and export military licenses.

In short, neither we nor the whole world was ready to meet our UAV needs at the beginning of the war. But. We have been fighting for 9 months. Some Western manufacturers (including the military) have already expanded production and the thin stream should soon turn into a full -flowing river, but at least into a confident source.

Ukrainian manufacturers have received an order for the year and a guarantee that in the case of a contract with them will be concluded, and I do not know the manufacturers who did not invest in expansion so that the next contract includes more complexes. At the same time, everyone knows "storks", "furii" and even the less known "Poseidon" in this short period they have also evolved. And Ukrspetsystem managed to develop his first "train" during the war.

The Ukrainian aero -intelligence already has the future, and we all built it together. And in this future, there is an experienced crew aimed at destroying "fatty" goals. And an increase in the supply to the army of complexes that have been well demonstrated on the battlefield is not a distant future, it is a picture for the next few months. We grow, develop, evolve.

And when in the information field of this movement as opposed to the position "These UAVs are expensive, it is inappropriate, let's better make a bunch of planes from Aliexpress", then I can say that with our "experts" and Russian IPSO is not necessary, they are for incitement Ready to sabotage the right processes and impose wrong narratives.

It is especially unpleasant when these self -made are determined by TTH only at the level of military UAVs, which they actually have, not understanding that the reality of the characteristics of this product may depend on the life of the fighters. The Ukrainian army needs a connection with good, experienced pilots and high -quality UAVs.