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“Assault drones make the battlefield economic system fully uneven. UAVs costing a couple of hundred {dollars} destroy armored personnel carriers and different gear price hundreds of thousands. We see that in Ukraine, priceless and costly gear is avoided the entrance, as a result of it is just too dangerous to make use of it,” stated Lieutenant Colonel Linas Idzelis, commander of the Lithuanian Rifle Affiliation, to the worldwide viewers that packed the primary convention house.
In accordance with him, the boundaries to adoption of drone expertise are low: the gear is comparatively low-cost, the logistics are usually not troublesome, and the use is widespread.
“The adoption of those new applied sciences is a matter of choice, and NATO armies should make this choice as quickly as potential,” L. Idzel stated.
The dialogue organized by “RSI Europe” was additionally attended by Latvian Protection Minister Andris Sprūds and Arūnas Kumpis, a volunteer who’s already well-known to these within the present affairs of the Ukrainian conflict.
“On the Ukrainian battlefield, the frontline is consistently monitored by drones on either side, and anybody who dares to come back out of canopy through the day is focused by fight drones. Underneath the circumstances of fixed surveillance, everybody works in dispersal in order to not create a concentrated, fats goal for the enemy”, A. Kumpis defined the considerably modified guidelines.
A volunteer combating in Ukraine shared an instance of a Ukrainian FPV pilot who, with the assistance of drones, has already destroyed as a lot enemy army gear as a unit the scale of a mechanized battalion.
“That is an unprecedented effectivity that offers very giant leverage to small groups of specialists.” The battlefield has modified irrevocably up to now two years. Solely those that can adapt survive. This is applicable not solely to the forces of Ukraine, but additionally to the armies of Lithuania and NATO. Our troops should shortly adapt to new applied sciences and methods of waging conflict”, A. Kumpis summarized his speech on the exhibition.
The Minister of Protection of the Republic of Latvia, at the moment main the Drone Coalition of NATO nations, urged NATO nations to concentrate not solely to technological sophistication, but additionally to amount.
“The Drone Coalition of NATO nations is decided to offer Ukraine with greater than 1 million assault drones over the subsequent 12 months. Their warfare is predicated on numbers. Assault drones are ammunition, and the battle in Ukraine exhibits that ammunition is in abundance. NATO nations should actively be a part of worldwide provide initiatives with a view to guarantee the mandatory portions of drones,” stated A. Sprūds.
June 17 Eurosatory 2024, one of many world’s largest protection and safety trade exhibitions, has began in Paris. On this exhibition, the Lithuanian protection trade was united by the Pavilion of the Innovation Company, the place 13 Lithuanian protection trade firms offered their merchandise.
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