dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑tisdag 18 juli 2023 21:36
Avgående brittiske försvarsministern Ben Wallace reflekterar över vad Ukrainakriget inneburit för den militära teknologin:
Captured Russian Weapons Being Studied By UK
The War Zone skrev:In terms of main battle tanks, the Defense Command Paper notes that the British Army’s Challenger 2 will receive “additional protection from specific Russian threats,” after the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) — the research and development branch of the Ministry of Defense — developed “bespoke and readily available armor protection solutions.” No details were provided as to the nature of the threats that this armor is intended to protect against, but it’s clear that intelligence gathered from the Ukrainian war contributed to the solution.
As for some of the other results of this intelligence work, one of them was a missile-armed vehicle on show at Wellington Barracks. Developed under Project Wolfram, this combines a high-mobility 6x6 Supacat HMT 600 chassis with an eight-round launcher for Brimstone anti-armor missiles, which until the war in Ukraine had only been fired from aircraft and boats. The Supacat company calls the resulting weapons system the Brimstone HMT Overwatch.
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Instead of the previously planned increase to 82,000 troops, the British Army will contract to 73,000 troops, a move that Wallace has defended on cost grounds. The planned increase, Wallace argued, would cost around $6.5 billion, funds that could obviously be invested in new and emerging technologies, including some of those seen recently being tested.
Den populäre försvarsministern Wallace tycks dra slutsatsen att kvalitet går före kvantitet. Som bekant anser Eric Schmidt att drönare kan ersätta trupper.
Enceladus skrev: ↑fredag 30 juni 2023 12:15
Ukrainian soldiers say they owe lives to US-supplied Bradley vehicles
Austin: U.S. will continue to push combat vehicles into Ukraine
Inside Defense skrev:Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said today the United States intends to continue sending combat vehicles to Ukraine as the ongoing counteroffensive against dug-in Russian forces proceeds more slowly than initially projected.
“We're going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes,” he said during a Pentagon press conference, noting that meant the United States would send more Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Strykers and long-range artillery systems.
Austin said the United States and its allies “continue to generate combat power” for Ukraine, referencing the training and equipping of three brigade combat teams in Germany.
Som Perun en gång har sagt, den ryska armén är modern och stor, men den moderna delen inte är stor och den stora delen inte är modern. Båda behövs.
EU plans €20B fund to stock Ukraine’s military for years
POLITICO skrev:The EU will propose a dedicated fund to keep Ukraine’s military stocked for the next four years at a cost of up to €20 billion, according to five diplomats familiar with the plan.
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To start, the price tag would be a major commitment for the EU, potentially increasing by nearly five times the €4 billion the bloc has allocated thus far for similar efforts over the last year-plus.
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It also comes on top of an EU proposal to earmark €50 billion in non-military assistance to Ukraine between 2024 and 2027.
Detta EU-förslag skulle hjälpa östeuropeiska länder att skicka mer militärt stöd till Ukraina, t.ex. Rosomak eller Zuzana 2. Stackars Ungern som går miste.
Clownen Rogozin har
nya idéer för Roscosmos:
ChrisO_wiki skrev:1/ Russia's space agency Roskosmos is reportedly evaluating options for using space rockets to drop aerial bombs on Ukraine from orbit. The proposal is likely to face serious technical difficulties, not least the risk of bombs burning up from the heat of atmospheric reentry.
2/ The Russian BRIEF Telegram channel reports that former Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin (left) has been discussing the proposal with Dmitry Baranov (right), director general of the Progress Rocket Space Centre, before taking it to Vladimir Putin last week.
3/ Rogozin reportedly envisages using Russia's Vostochny and Plesetsk cosmodromes to launch bomb-carrying rockets into space to drop "heavy FABs" (presumably the FAB-500 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) general purpose air-dropped bomb) on "NATO equipment" in Ukraine.
4/ Baranov, understandably, has questions. According to BRIEF, he objected that the bombs would overheat on the way down. "It's travelling at over 6 kilometres per second. That's practically space speed. It's like the Soyuz TMA [spacecraft] coming back. It's the same shit."
5/ According to Baranov, rockets launched from Vostochny can carry 7.5 tons of cargo, while launches from Plesetsk can carry 10 tons, minus a ton in each case for "insurance".
6/ He is said to envisage a 6-9 month timeframe for adapting the rockets into bombers, though he seems to be uncertain about how this can be done. Rogozin reportedly envisages adapting "the toys of the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering" to shield the FABs from reentry heat.
7/ BRIEF reports that Rogozin planned to send a paper to Anton Vaino, Putin's chief of staff, who is said to be interested and intending to "report to the chief on this matter". It's not known what Putin himself thinks of the idea. /end
Vad annars ska Roscosmos ägna sig åt? Ryssland har ju inte lyckats landa på en himlakropp efter Sovjetunionens fall. Utan Ukraina är Roscosmos ett skämt.
U.S. Pushes Military Cooperation in Space
WSJ skrev:The move comes amid concerns about China and Russia’s ability to disrupt the West’s satellites and new technology the two countries have developed, including satellites that can grab others. Russia, for instance, has conducted operations to disrupt Ukraine’s space-enabled communications.
“The conflict in Ukraine has made it clear: access to, and use of, space is fundamental to modern war,” said Saltzman, who has recently held a series of meetings with European counterparts to push the case for greater cooperation.
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When cellphone towers providing telephone and internet services were knocked out early in the war, Ukraine turned to Elon Musk’s Starlink service, which provides internet connectivity using a swarm of satellites.
Kriget i Ukraina visar tydligt att rymden har en avgörande betydelse i modern krigföring. Ukrainas ledning och kontroll skulle inte fungera utan Starlink.