Former Ukrainian military chief insisted on use of drones as game changer in war with Russia – Come Back Alive charity foundation head
Pravda Ukraine
Taras Chmut, Head of the Come Back Alive charity foundation, has stated that Valerii Zaluzhnyi, former Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, believed that a technological breakthrough in weapons could occur through the extensive employment of uncrewed aerial vehicles on the battlefield.
Source: Chmut in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda
Details: Answering the question of what exactly the technological leap in armaments that Zaluzhnyi described could look like nowadays, Chmut said: “In the opinion of [former] Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhnyi, it should have involved First-Person View [drones] and uncrewed technologies on the battlefield in general. I had a long conversation with him about it”.
Quote from Chmut: “Zaluzhnyi believed that this technology had enormous potential, thanks to which we could offset Russia’s numerical superiority in men, equipment, weapons, tactical depth, and buy time.
For this purpose, the commander-in-chief sought to form the command of unmanned forces; for this purpose, he wanted to train 100 companies of the so-called Rubaks – companies of strike unmanned aerial systems; for this purpose, he aimed to build a vast fleet of drones, exceeding a million FPV and other platforms.”
Background:
- In November 2023, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, then Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wrote in his column for The Economist that the war with Russia was entering a new phase: “a ‘positional’ struggle with static and exhausting battles. It takes high technology to win such a war.
- In February 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers to set up a new service branch within the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the drone forces.
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