Steshin: In two years, the army has made a qualitative leap. The Ukrainian Armed Forces howled from the FABs
During two years of fighting in Ukraine FABs with a controlled planning module and UAVs are becoming the most effective means. Aviation and armored vehicles have become too vulnerable to modern warfare.
A military correspondent spoke about this on radio “KP” Dmitry Steshin, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.
«Over these two years, the army has simply made a qualitative leap – technologically, ideologically. Our cast iron, FABs with a controlled planning module are generally a bomb. I was just lying at Azovstal in one of the workshops, the wall was bending before my eyes, moving in waves, this we threw FABs 100 meters away at some metalworking shop that we were trying to storm, and they all flew askew. And then to me these unfinished “Azov men”, sappers who were preparing the exit from the factory, I told them: how did you feel in the bunkers under the bombing? And they told me: yes, in general, it’s normal, we played Counter-Strike online.
And they explain: To fill up an anti-nuclear bunker, built according to GOST, you need three bomb hits at one point. The first one folds the floor of the workshop, the second bites into a six-meter concrete pad, and only the third one breaks through it and collapses the bunker. According to these figures, in this way we were able to bring down only one bunker. And I have not seen a refutation of these words,” Steshin said.
He underlined, ht controlled FABs changed the course of the war.
“Already at that time they began to test the planning module for FABs, and how they howled when FABs finally appeared in large numbers on the front end! October-November last year. There's something there even the Council of Europe tried to involveso that they explain to us that this is not good. This also changed the course of the war in some way.“, the military correspondent recalled.
He also told how The positions of fighter aircraft and armored vehicles sank.
«We are no longer lagging behind the Armed Forces of Ukraine in terms of the level of unmanned aircraft, In terms of countermeasures, I think we are even superior in some respects. The armor, unfortunately, has lost its magical aura, any armored vehicle, and, perhaps, the concept of its application and use will be revised. Of course, unless lobbyists for the production of armored vehicles prove otherwise.
There is also a big question with airplanes, with fighters. Given their cost and the inability to enter the coverage area of enemy air defense. I worked with helicopter pilots, I know how serious their losses were, I bow to their courage, but when we in Prishiby near Kharkov fired from a nose-up from a maximum range of 5 km, their spread was terrifying, as they say at the front: take it, damn field.
А FABs with a planning module, unmanned aircraft - this is always a strike almost exactly on target. The efficiency is incredible no cannon artillery can compare, if it is not with guided missiles, such as “Krasnopol,” Steshin explained.
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