(Central News Agency Washington on the 15th comprehensive foreign report) The war between Russia and Ukraine has been raging for nearly a year. Ukraine’s tanks and trench warfare seem old-fashioned, but in fact it has introduced a lot of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and robots to help Ukraine survive all the way to today. Agence France-Presse took stock of Ukraine’s seven major advantages, which are worth learning from Taiwan.
● artificial intelligence
Stephen Biddle, a defense expert at Columbia University, said Ukraine had been testing “sensor integration,” which uses triangulation to analyze information from different sources to create a more comprehensive picture of the battlefield.
U.S. company Palantir also provides Kiev authorities with artificial intelligence-driven tools that can sort through billions of bits of data to help commanders understand Russian military movements, locations and attack targets in real time.
● Automatic drone
Ukraine’s drone war has entered a mature stage. At present, Russia and Ukraine have similar capabilities, and militaries around the world are catching up. In the future, autonomous drones will be equipped with automatic attack programs, without the need for humans to make decisions.
At present, the Ukrainian army has begun to use the small switchblade UAV aided by the United States (Switchblade), which has a “target recognition” function and can lock the target by itself.
● Open source intelligence analysis
“Open source intelligence” (OSINT) has become an indispensable weapon in warfare. It can use sources such as communication software Telegram groups, commercial satellite photos, and TikTok videos to obtain information on military operations, potential targets, and political intentions behind them.
When Russian soldiers use their mobile phones to contact family or friends, Ukrainian intelligence services can obtain location data and unit details from them.
● Air defense capability
Among Ukraine’s purchases of stealth fighters and bombers, human-piloted fighters have little impact on Ukraine, and larger missiles have limited impact, because what Ukraine really needs is air defense capabilities, that is, launching missiles from the ground to shoot down attacks from the air.
● weapons and ammunition
Experts said that the biggest lesson from the Russia-Ukraine war is that ammunition is consumed too quickly and there is no time to resupply it. Western countries’ stockpiles of weapons, ranging from small munitions to high-end precision munitions and air defense systems, are plummeting, and Ukraine’s allies are trying to meet demand as much as possible.
Becca Wasser, a researcher at the Center for a New American Security (Center for a New American Security), said that the latest military push related to China’s invasion of Taiwan used ammunition at an alarming rate.
● Decentralized command
Facts have proved that Ukraine’s flexible and decentralized command style has a powerful advantage over Russia on the battlefield. “Russian-style rigidity, centralized command and control, has long been a bad idea,” Biddle said.
● Fighting spirit
Warser said Ukraine had only built a modern, professional armed force after Russia’s easy takeover of Crimea in 2014, and she believed Taiwan’s military should now be better trained.
Biddle said that another important lesson from Ukraine is that at the beginning of the Russian invasion, Moscow authorities and Western leaders doubted whether Ukrainians would firmly defend their homeland. important issues”. (Translator: Zhang Mingxuan / Verified manuscript: Yang Zhaoyan) 1120215
