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THE URGENCY OF IMPLEMENTING AUTONOMOUS FIREFIGHTING DRONES FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF UKRAINE'S DEFENSE FORCES This article explores the relevance and prospects of using military autonomous firefighting drones (MAFDs) in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the context of the aggressive war waged by the Russian Federation. Logistics plays a key role in ensuring the functioning of the AFU, and fire safety is one of the key factors of effective logistics. Enemy missile and bomb strikes and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) cause significant damage to Ukrainian infrastructure, including military facilities. MAFDs are capable of conducting fire reconnaissance, responding to fires and extinguishing them, thereby reducing the risks to the lives of military firefighters and preserving material resources. The autonomous drone market is growing, with the projected revenue from autonomous firefighting drones reaching USD 7,383.5 million by 2033. Ukraine lacks legislation regulating the activities of military firefighters and providing them with the necessary equipment. The introduction of MAFDs into the AFU will improve the efficiency of logistics, save lives and material resources, and contribute to Ukraine's integration into NATO. War is not merely a spectacle of heroic battles but a meticulously orchestrated ballet of supply. US Army General John J. Pershing, who commanded the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, eloquently captured this notion: "Infantry wins battles, but logistics wins wars." Historically and anecdotally, in the parlance of military generals and logisticians, "beans, bullets, and bandages" are the lifeblood of a fighting force.

Good insights from Army Acquisition Chief, Doug Bush - ASA (ALT), on the Army's acquisition strategy for small drones. Comments on the flexibility and modularity of the drone platforms needed are directly applicable to the Army's needed approach for fielding Counter-UxS solutions too. It's also great to see images of soldiers from the Pennsylvania National Guard working with #DroneGunMk4 while in HOA. It means a lot to our team knowing our work and solutions are delivering value in region! Excerpt from the Defense One article: "The Army has plans to eventually field drones of different types at the platoon, company, and brigade levels. So far, the Army has only fielded drones at the platoon level under the Short Range Reconnaissance program. Smaller drones like those the Army gives platoons and companies are relatively simple to manufacture, Bush said. “A lot of it is people hand-building things.” Bush also highlighted the Army’s focus on *software-based updates and modular open-system architecture—the ability to easily add and subtract components like a new radar or sensor.* “Those are the two major pushes from both large platforms like [Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft] and XM-30 [Infantry Combat Vehicle] all the way down to small [drones],” Bush said. Both approaches allow the Army to upgrade equipment quickly, helping the service to field improved systems “at the speed needed in combat,” he said." https://lnkd.in/ej75AkCT #uas #cuas #usarmy #nationalguard #dod #defense #counteruas DroneShield

Good article that highlights the organizational problem that the US military, and the US government in general and the Army for certain has with acquisition and fielding. Agility in the government is pretty much completely unknown. There are so many layers of approval and review and with so many expectations that every item purchased will possess every possible or imagined capability, that it takes far too long to field and astronomically drives up the cost of new technologies. Every bureaucrat in the centralized government procurement/ acquisition field has the ability to claim that any piece of equipment must satisfy their particular interest so the requirement laboriously wends it way through years of review- and then it has to be a competitive bid with multiple potential vendors who meet a myriad of business requirements etc… Rapidly the item goes from a $1000 immediately available item to a $5 million item that can withstand the emp of a nuclear blast- but won’t be in the hands of users for 10 years as it wends its way through the fielding process. We have built a system antithetical to the rapid development and fielding of advancing technologies and then pay the price in the field.

17 Aug 08:05: Forbes: AEROSPACE & DEFENSE: Giving Up To The Drone: Ukraine ????????♀?????♂????? Encourages Non-Contact Surrender: David Hambling: Senior Contributor: Drones are creating a new type of warfare in Ukraine. The latest unexpected twist is 'non-contact surrender' in which a drone with a speaker and microphone approaches Russian troops and invites them to lay down their arms. They follow the drone back to Ukrainian lines where they are taken safely into captivity. There have been occasional spontaneous surrenders to drones in the past, but this looks like an organised campaign to take surrender remotely. Drones have previously been associated with brutal up-close warfare in this conflict. Non-contact surrender suggests drone could instead make future wars more humane: Please read on: Thanks, Bro / Geoff ????????????????:

"The U.S. Air Force needs to rethink how small, low-cost drones could change the definition of air superiority..." While at the same time, "U.S. House Committee Advances Legislation To Effectively Ban DJI Drones In U.S." (see link in comments) This is an interesting intersection of domestic security vs domestic politics. The US military is developing a strategy around the use of small (commercial-sized) drones, yet there are no real US based manufactured alternatives anywhere near the same price point. (Think $500 imported vs $5000-10000 for domestic). This impact is not limited to just the military, think domestic use of drones for applications such as Critical Infrastructure monitoring, real estate, private security, livestock and farm maintenance. #drones #autonomy #security #economy #politics https://lnkd.in/gwE-UhCX

Getting some really good feedback on this piece so far. Want to understand why for the first time in 80 years we lack air superiority and American troops are being bombed from above? How do we stop this? Read more here. #cuas #drones #defense

#Ukrainian troops in eastern Ukraine received a surprise gift on Saturday when a rare Russian air force Okhotnik stealth drone fell out of the sky over the fortress town of Chasiv Yar. There are just a handful of the 65-foot-wingspan, jet-powered drones in existence. Now one of them—or its wreckage, at least—is in Ukrainian and allied hands. “They will disassemble it down to the last screw and, of course, familiarize themselves with its rich internal contents,” moaned?Fighterbomber, the unofficial Telegram channel of the Russian air force. It’s not clear what happened to bring down the radar-evading drone. Video shot from the ground apparently depicts a warplane firing a missile at the arrow-shaped Okhotnik, sending it tumbling to the ground. Was the shooter a Ukrainian fighter? Or was it a Russian fighter? The former might seem more likely, but the latter isn’t inconceivable. If the Okhotnik malfunctioned, the Russians may have opted to shoot it down rather than risk it crash-landing mostly intact inside Ukrainian lines. “I really want to hope that it was a loss of control due to something failing … or the UAV’s brains went crazy for their own reasons, and not the drone being intercepted by the enemy,” Fighterbomber wrote. One strong possibility is that the Okhotnik ran afoul of the heavy radio jamming along that sector of the 700-mile front line. The drone likely lacks full autonomy, and instead depends on a steady connection to operators on the ground. That’s a design detail Ukrainian and allied analysts can now confirm as they inspect the Okhotnik’s remains. It’s an embarrassing loss for the battered Russian air force, which?has written off more than 100 warplanes—including at least one Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter—to Ukrainian guns, missiles and drones. The first blurry images of the Okhotnik drone appeared in January 2019 on a Russian aviation website. The photos depicted a tractor towing the apparently 11-ton unmanned aerial vehicle along a snow-ringed runway at an airfield in Novosibirsk in southern Russia. A flying wing similar in shape to the U.S. Air Force's Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth bomber, Okhotnik—that means “hunter” in Russian—could, in theory, penetrate enemy defenses to deliver ordnance. Okhotnik is in the same class as China’s Tian Ying drone and the USAF’s Lockheed Martin RQ-170 surveillance UAV. The likelihood of Okhotnik eventually entering squadron service with the Russian air force is “big,” said Tom Cooper, an independent expert on Russian military aviation. But five years after its blurry debut, it’s not clear that Sukhoi has built enough Okhotniks—or conducted enough testing—to fully equip a front-line unit. It might still be a developmental aircraft. While it’s not uncommon for the Russian air force to deploy test planes to combat zones in order to collect data in a real-world context, it’s a huge setback to a development effort to lose a rare and expensive test plane during combat trials.

The #SWARM will change everything: "the?drone?will change the face of warfare when employed in swarms directed by AI....dozens or hundreds of?drones?in AI-directed swarms will have the capacity to overwhelm defenses and destroy even advanced platforms." Think of Ukrainian drones taking out Russian tanks ... or seaborn versions sinking the $70 million Russian warship Ivanovets .... or Hamas drones, costing less than $7,000, disabling a $3.5M IDF Mark IV Merkava. Now imagine 10,000 such drones operating in unison. Excellent piece by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis. #drones?#drone?#dronetech?#dronetechnology #nationalsecurity #defenseinnovation #defensetech #defense #navy #dronewarfare AI Fund Echelon | Ai Skyfire Consulting https://lnkd.in/e236Bwrc

As with many issues, the lack of small UAS usage in the Army is not a lack of innovation but is due to deeper, structural problems on how the Army operates and trains. As an OPFOR commander nearly a decade ago, I observed how units rely on higher level intel to make decisions. Units never employed Ravens and misused scouts to develop the situation at battalion and below. The problem has only gotten worse. With MDO and Army 2030, the Army is moving further towards centralized, top-down systems of command. It is eliminating brigade and battalion level reconnaissance assets (Cavalry Squadrons and Mounted Weapons Companies). The Army does not value and does not train bottom-up, reconnaissance pull from subordinate units. The Army assumes that the systems that provide perfect situational awareness in Warfighter computer games will work in the fog and friction of war. We train that missions come from top down orders and higher’s intelligence. In the classroom, in LFXs, and even at CTCs, we do not study or train how to take action and exploit enemy vulnerabilities based on subordinate units recon. Units do not need to fly UAS in LFXs to be certified - they already know exactly what the enemy targets will do. Meanwhile, fires are also being centralized at the division-level. We do not focus on training small unit leaders to use small UAS tied to responsive mortars or artillery. Until we have doctrine, training, and force structure focused on bottom-up recon, fires, and decision-making, there will not be a forcing function for the employment of small UAS.