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- ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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- ukraine@sopuli.xyz
cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/12142933
In an interview with Russia’s state news agency TASS on Tuesday, Oct. 27 the commander of Moscow’s Akhmat special forces unit, Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov complained that NATO nations were using the war in Ukraine to test drone technology in combat against Russia.
He commented that large numbers of Western manufactured unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) were being encountered: “We see that drones manufactured in all these countries, which are members of the NATO alliance, are being tested against us on the line of engagement.”
Alaudinov claimed that these included drones of every type, capability and operational ranges. According to him, this not only included first-person view (FPV) drones used to attack Russian forces and equipment on the front line but also included long-range UAVs that were being used to carry out deep strikes against towns, cities and infrastructure inside Russia.
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He should send his GPS coordinates
I thought we were at war with them. What now?!?! Smh cant even keep the propaganda straight
If they complain, we’re doing it right.
Of course they are. Everyone is using such conflicts to test new equipment. If you don’t want to give your opponent an opportunity to do so, maybe don’t start a war. It’s that simple.
China is testing all kinds of tech on the russian frontline, including drones.
Yes, here is one report on this:
Learning Without Bleeding: China’s Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine Drone War
At a [Chinese] People’s Liberation Army (PLA) center that runs trials pitting drone swarms against counter-drone defenses, one participant explained the logic to state media: “The errors we make in trials are detours the troops will not have to take.” China is running the most systematic effort by any outside power to convert the Ukraine war’s lessons into military advantage, absorbing the errors of both sides. Chinese analysts are explicit about the value of Russia’s war against Ukraine. They describe the conflict as a living textbook and call 2024 “year one of world drone war,” when the two sides fielded enough drones to show the contours of the new mechanized battlefield …
Is Russia now the Chinese proxy state in a US - China proxy war?
(Fuck Putin/Russia btw I’m not a tankie. Just thought just occurred to me)
If you think Ukraine is a proxy for the US, you haven’t been paying attention.
China didn’t really want that conflict, because it disrupted their plans of reviving the Silk Road overland trade route, but since it is happening anyway, they are trying to gain any possible benefit from it. With Russia having lost a lot of its former manufacturing capability, yet having access to plentiful resources, China is making Russia pay dearly for a limited amount of support. The longer the conflict keeps going, the deeper Russia will be indebted to China. Also, the conflict is eating into China’s western rivals’ arms stockpiles, but how much of that is even necessary in order to strengthen China’s position in relation to them is disputable, because pretty much the entire capitalist West has made itself economically dependent on cheap Chinese manufacturing already anyway, and therefore wouldn’t last very long in a serious confrontation with China, even with no shots fired at all.
Tankies would never say anything that belittles Russia, so you’re in the clear!
