/Pogled.info/ It is increasingly being written about the fact that small drones are more effective than any “hand” weapon and tomorrow they will replace expensive and large tanks that are easily knocked out with a guided missile. Against the background of these statements, the statements about the delivery of new tracked machines from both sides seem strange. “Tsarigrad” TV found out what weapons will be sought in the current theater of operations.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can rightfully be considered the most “marketable” type of weapon: they are cheap, perfectly destroy ground and air targets, conduct reconnaissance, allowing artillery to deliver an accurate strike from hidden positions. But does this mean that the advent of drones on the battlefield makes the tanks that dominate it today unnecessary?
UAVs are actually relatively cheap weapons (compared to tanks) and at the same time very effective. And if earlier unmanned aircraft were in operation only in developed countries, today they are available to everyone without exception. And that makes war fundamentally different.
This was clearly demonstrated in the recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, where the Azerbaijani (more precisely, the Turkish) “Bayraktari” successfully destroyed Armenian armored vehicles and air defenses.
But is it worth classifying our armored vehicles among the “obsolete” types of weapons, as sofa experts have already begun to suggest? Military expert Alexei Leonkov expressed his opinion on this matter to First Russian:
“Yes, from the point of view of the UAV, we were lagging behind, but the problem is being solved. They are reviving the air reconnaissance that was ruined under Serdyukov (because it is “expensive”)”, he declared.
“Then all our jet “Strizh” were given under air targets. The same “Strizh”, which (with a slight change by the Germans from reconnaissance to strike) today fly to our central areas! In the strike version, “Strizh” can play the role of the first echelon during our massive airstrikes, taking on enemy air defense missiles,” the expert explained.
About the tanks, the expert said that they shoot well from closed positions. That is, there is no need to repeat amateur passages about outdated machines and advanced UAVs. Both are necessary for modern warfare.
And thank God that our command in the second year of the war began to understand this. Both directions must be developed. Another military expert Konstantin Sivkov agrees with this:
“There is no weapon that is obsolete and no longer needed. The knife was invented in the Stone Age,” he emphasized.
“The tank is good when there is intense shooting with a high-tech enemy, it is more protected than any self-propelled guns. Well, when you fight with conditional Papuans, you can only deal with drones,” added Sivkov.
Modern war is a war that combines all kinds of weapons, not only military, but also psychological, informational, economic. And therefore, drones are not a replacement for tanks, but an effective addition to them. And don’t think that Russia has nothing to offer in this regard.
“Back in 1991, we tested tanks without a crew! There is also an unmanned aircraft “Okhotnik”, which is identical in combat characteristics to the Su-35 and can act together with it “first echelon”, he said.
“Our T-14 tank has a full-time reconnaissance drone that allows you to shoot from a closed position. So the UAV is not ‘our everything’, but ‘our more,'” says Konstantin Sivkov.
The fact that drones alone cannot win a war is well understood in the West. And therefore, the new batch of military supplies to Ukraine does not include UAVs, but tanks.
At the same time, from time to time we hear cries not only that we are fighting drones with tanks, but also that the tanks are sent to Ukraine “obsolete”, and the new ones are only shown in parades. And the West, they say, sends everything ultra-modern to Ukraine. In fact, this is not the case, the expert emphasized:
“Couch experts like to complain that, as they say, our outdated tanks are fighting in Ukraine. But ask them: what does the West supply the armed forces of Ukraine,” he asked.
“More or less equivalent to our T-90 (there are 100 of them in Ukraine) only 24 machines were delivered. Leopard-2A43 is an analogue of our T-72 from 1973. The rest is Leopard-1, which is more weaker than even our T-55, which has 120 mm of armor plus dynamic protection against 70 mm for the Leopard,” explained the expert.
Sivkov believes that the use of T-55 and T-62 in Ukraine (produced in 1961-1972) is justified – these “Soviet” tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which could withstand them, were burned in the first year from the war. So there is no point in driving the new T-90s standing in the rear, as it is unlikely that anything will happen with the VSU with their offensive.
So we have good tanks, nothing to blame. “Leopards” will come – we will burn them. Because, as Alexander Pushkin wrote back in the 19th century:
So send us vitii,
Your warlike sons.
There is a place for them in the fields of Russia –
Among the coffins there are some that are not foreign to you.
Let them come – with tanks and drones. We recycle everything.
Translation: SM
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2023-05-02 07:44:59
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