“The war is now moving into a new phase: what we military people call ‘positional’ warfare of static combat and attrition, as in the First World War, as opposed to ‘maneuver’ warfare of movement and speed. This will benefit Russia, allowing it to rebuild its military power, ultimately threatening the Ukrainian armed forces and the state itself,” Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny told the Economist, quoted by Ukrinform. According to Zaluznhy, basic weapons, such as missiles and projectiles, remain essential for Ukraine. The Ukrainian armed forces need key military capabilities and technologies to emerge from this type of war. The most important is air power. Control of the skies is essential for large-scale ground operations, underlined the commander of the armed forces, who defined attack drones as a priority to overload Russia’s air defense systems. Another important thing, according to Zaluzhny, is electronic warfare (Ew), such as jamming of communications and navigation signals. “Ew is the key to victory in drone warfare. Russia has modernized its armed forces over the past decade, creating a new branch of its army and building 60 new types of equipment. In this field it surpasses us: the 65% of our jamming platforms at the beginning of the war were produced in Soviet times. We have already built many of our electronic protection systems… We need to get better at conducting electronic warfare from our drones, across a wider range of the radio spectrum, avoiding the accidental suppression of our own drones,” he said. According to Zaluzhny, counter-battery fire that defeats enemy artillery is also a priority. The fourth is mine-busting technology. Zaluzhny’s fifth and final priority is the establishment of reserves. “Our ability to train reserves on our territory is also limited. We cannot easily spare soldiers deployed at the front. Furthermore, Russia can target training centers. And there are gaps in our legislation that allow citizens to escape their responsibility,” he noted.
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