What happens in 2025? / new tactics- new technologies

[MarkSheppard]

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/...62908430008813

More drones proliferating, this one is Ukranian

Ground drone with 7.62-mm PKT in service of the 🇺🇦61st Separate Mechanized Brigade.

Combined effects warhead for FPV drones

https://twitter.com/GrandpaRoy2/stat...22462576713729

Ukraine is expanding the variety and lethality of warheads for its FPVs. Here we see a HEAT/ball-bearing fragmentation ammunition with roller bearings added to the front as additional fragmentation pieces. The copper cone to form the explosive jet is nicely visible.

Another thing to note is that when FPVs are used; they're used en masse -- i.e. as of late 2023 / early 2024, instead of lone or triplet FPV attacks, we're seeing swarming attacks; many of them going after a single target.

[MarkSheppard]

Remember that UGV I posted about a few pages back carrying a demolition charge to blow a bridge some 4 km from the operator?

We've gotten the scaled down version

https://twitter.com/War_Gang_/status...67779889119274

Translated from the Polish

Probably the first published (?) use of a robot (UGV) to paralyze 🇷🇺 positions.

The ground unmanned aircraft was - according to the description - carrying a TM-62M anti-tank mine, which was detonated remotely.

This will complement FPV drones to some extent. Why? Because the structures currently used cannot support the weight of the TM-62M (over 9kg); and the drones that can do this only fly at night because they are big and slow.

It is therefore possible that, to some narrow extent, UGVs will be able to complement the activities of drones and multiply each other's actions. FPV drones as fighters covering the way to the target for their driving colleagues 😉

UxV combined arms 😉

And yes - we are aware of the limitations of equipment, terrain, and enemy actions 🙂

[MarkSheppard]

More evolution!

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/s...09659927162966

Ukraine is now using WWII bomber escort solutions for drones -- the slower, bigger "Baba Yaga" carrying heavy munitions is escorted by swarms of smaller FPV drones.

[MarkSheppard]

https://x.com/sambendett/status/1860102231191851190

Another Russian combat UGV somewhere at the front.

https://x.com/sambendett/status/1859957338834379240

Russian "Krot" (Mole) tactical UGV delivering explosives at the front.

https://x.com/sambendett/status/1858927202022134013

Russia's PGU-15 universal tracked platform developed by the DST-Ural enterprise.