The attack on the Russian bombers has shown that modern and economic weapons can destroy others from the value of billions. But also that commercial technologies are increasingly available. The US army: research and speed are needed in supplies.
After the surprising Ukrainian attack last weekend, in which numerous small drones have been used to hit and destroy the Russian strategic bombers, armies all over the world are drawing important teachings regarding the protection of infrastructure and military personnel. Among these is the US army that has long decided to implement a transformation by recognizing that what happened in Russia has been the confirmation of some of the radical changes that the armed force is trying to implement in the way of acquiring and managing the skills in the future.
Until yesterday, to have a certain effective object available, it was necessary to acquire it after completing the evaluation and experimentation campaigns that imply years of work. Today this is no longer possible. General Randy George, chief of staff of the army, during Exchange, the conference on artificial intelligence hosted from Monday to today by the special competitive studies project of Washington, said: “The Ukrainian attack has been an excellent example of how quickly the technology is changing the battlefield. In the last two years we have seen that everyone speaks of planning cycles and programs of planning and programs Reference to five and ten years old. George pointed out that technology is changing too quickly on the battlefield in order to be linked to large supply programs which, as such, require years of development and, once operational, can already prove to be widely obsolete.
According to the General, it is necessary to reduce the time necessary to develop systems and put them in the hands of the soldiers, especially considering that many of these skills, such as those of dronescommunication equipment and electronic war tools are increasingly available on the commercial market. “What we have to do,” said George, “is to make sure that we are aligned with the contemporary by changing the processes to ensure that we provide the troops with the equipment and winning skills they know they need. We will have to be more agile. For example, drones will change constantly, they will be able to integrate much more sophisticated electronic and transmit information that today comes out only from classified devices. Anti-drone, so we will have to work on this aspect to make sure to buy systems quickly.
The high officer also alludes to the performance of the small military drones that today, in terms of quality of the videos transmitted, Of the amount of data they provide, etc., they are lower than those in free sale for recreational or professional use. George said that one of the US army units that has just gone to the Polygon Joint Readin Readin Training Center in Fort Johnson, Louisiana, a place that provides the most realistic combat scenarios that the army can create for the training of the units, where the forces simulate a battle campaign against an active enemy, had brought almost 400 drones. A huge number. And the danger is to deploy the same systems for many years because the technology changes so quickly and months to find a more modern device of those that are available even if “we update them constantly and on this it is necessary to focus on the future”, concluded George, also observing that the attack with the drones that took place last weekend has reversed the so -called Curve of costs, since Kiev has used relatively economic systems, in the order of the order. A few hundred dollars, to destroy a Russian combat power of the value of billions of dollars.
Exactly the opposite of what happened in the Red Sea, where missiles from millions of dollars were used to bring down much cheaper drones. The Ukrainian attack has also shown again and in Odo never so clear how much the battlefields are becoming ‘transparent’, which means that there is no more space to hide. “There is a lot of talk about the fact that you can no longer hide, whether it is men or means. We must reduce your visibility and all these things we are very talking to our troops and with our commanders,” said George. The attack was filmed and seen all over the world a few hours after having happened thanks to the increasingly open source nature of the information on military activities that implications on the way the army will operate in the future. For this reason, the Secretary of State for the Army, the lawyer, former officer, veteran and today a political of the Driscolt conservatives, said he wanted to be a “innovation engine” of the Department of Defense, selecting the best ideas and technologies from the commercial sector and testing them in the army. “We believe that the army must be the Pentagon innovation engine but we have to earn this right,” Driscitl said to Monday convention.
