Russia is already attacking Ukraine with drones. Russia is importing these drones in large quantities from Iran. They are completely unmanned and attack on precise targets. Iran’s own long-range Shahed-136 explosive drone has crippled Ukrainian power plants.
These weapons can be operated sitting anywhere, you just have to look at the screen. (file photo)
That year was different, this year is different… but the situation remains the same. We are talking about Russia and Ukraine here. In the year 2022, the month of February was going on. Russian missiles exploded in Ukraine in the midst of bitter cold. The war started from here. The Russian army spread such a scene of devastation in Ukraine that smoke, screams, tears and demolished buildings were visible everywhere. Now February of 2023 is about to come. But the war continues unabated. Yes, it is definitely that there are changes in the methods of war.
A lot changes in a year. The Russia-Ukraine war has not subsided, but change has definitely come. Ukraine has suffered a lot but Russia has also lost thousands of its soldiers. Putin announced that he will not back down at any cost, yes, if Ukraine accepts defeat, it can avoid devastation. But Ukraine is also fighting continuously. He is getting help from European countries and America. Now Ukraine is moving towards technical war. He does not want to risk the lives of his soldiers. That is why he is focusing on drone technology.
Russia fired missiles in the new year
On January 1, Russia launched several missile and drone attacks on Ukraine. After which Ukraine retaliated. Giving another blow to the Kremlin, the Ukrainian army attacked a place in the eastern Donetsk region with a drone. Russia was occupied here and its soldiers were here. 63 Russian soldiers were killed in this attack. Russia itself also accepted this thing. This is one of the deadliest attacks on Russian soldiers since the start of the war. Now one thing has been decided from this war that whether the time to come will depend only on technology. That is, now instead of soldiers, drones, robots will fight among themselves. It looks like earlier in the villages, we used to fight with puppets while playing games. Which meant that there would be no injury and the decision of victory and defeat would also be made.
The longer the war lasts, the more drones will be used – experts
According to military analysts, fighters and artificial intelligence researchers, the longer the war lasts, the more likely it is that drones will be used. In this, after detecting the target, the drone will be attacked. It will be like a revolution in itself, the way it happened on the arrival of the first machine gun. Ukraine already has semi-autonomous attack drones and AI-powered counter-drone weapons.
Russia also claims AI weapon
Russia also claims to have AI weapons, although the claims are unproven. But there are no confirmed examples of any nation deploying combat robots that are fighting a war entirely on their own. Although many countries are developing this technology. Zachary Cullenborn, a weapons analyst at George Mason University, has said that it is not that difficult. As the needs are increasing, new technologies are also being developed. The advantage of drone attack is that the loss of our army is saved, it is also less expensive.
Ukraine changed war strategy
Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov agrees that fully autonomous killer drones are the only next step in weapons development. He said that Ukraine is doing a lot of research and development in this direction. In a recent interview, he said that I think there is a lot of potential for this in the next six months. He said that Ukrainian military leaders currently completely prohibit the use of independent lethal weapons.
Russia is already doing drone attack
Russia is already attacking Ukraine with drones. Russia is importing these drones in large quantities from Iran. They are completely unmanned and attack on precise targets. Iran’s own long-range Shahed-136 explosive drone has crippled Ukrainian power plants. Iran has other drones in its growing arsenal that it says have AI (Artificial Intelligence). Drones near Ukraine include the US-made Switchblade 600 and the Polish Warmet, which currently require a human to select targets on a live video feed. While AI (Artificial Intelligence) itself does all this work. It hovers over the target for minutes and attacks it as soon as it gets the exact location.
First used in 2020 Libyan conflict
Last year, a UN report said that these killer robots started in Libya’s internal conflict in 2020. When the Turkish-made Kargu-2 drone in full-automatic mode killed a large number of combatants. A spokesperson for drone manufacturer STM said the report is false and unverified. It should not be taken seriously. He told the AP that the Kargu-2 cannot attack a target until the operator tells it to do so.
Ukraine claims 400 Russian soldiers killed
In the attack, Ukraine’s military fired six rockets from the Himars launch system and two of them were shot down, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. However, the Directorate of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed on Sunday that about 400 Russian soldiers mobilized at the building of a vocational school in Makiivka were killed and about 300 others wounded. These claims could not be independently verified. Meanwhile, The Institute for the Study of War said on Monday that Putin is trying to garner support in Russia for his strategy. The think tank said Russia’s airstrikes against Ukraine are not yielding the desired results to Russian nationalists. The think tank said such a major military failure would further complicate Putin’s efforts to woo Russia’s pro-war community.
(Based on some agency inputs, online reports)
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