Extremely important for Sweden and NATO to work closely with Ukraine. Both in terms of political and on a more practical level. Unless we're ready to accept losses on a Russian scale (in the 100 000 - 1 000 000, rather than 10 -100) we can't ignore how effective drones have become. And from what I've read so far, western armies still haven't fully realized how to implement drones the same way Ukraine has.
Cool shot by the way. It would be easy to write drones off as toys instead of weapons when you look at them. But if you're on the other side of those guys, they have a bomb with your name it on. And it usually gets delivered.
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hildenborg2 days ago
+2
The new paradigm is that there is always an eye in the sky.
Your every move is watched and you cannot hide.
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eaglemaxie3 days ago
+98
"According to NATO Military Committee Chair Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Ukrainian teams acting as a “red team” successfully overwhelmed allied units during several training scenarios using drone strike tactics."
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Natural-Possession103 days ago
+41
Always good to learn from the best!
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wrosecrans2 days ago
+11
In fairness to the NATO defending side, those things are always meant to be basically unwinnable.
If you do a training exercise and the result is "Yeah, I guess we just stick with the old plan, and don't try to improve at all, or change anything," because you easily won then you wasted an opportunity to learn something and improve. You always want to give the attackers enough resources to make things hard, so you can see what tactics were most effective and where you were weakest. A lot of people misunderstand what it means to "lose" one of these wargames.
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BlackbirdSage3 days ago
Edit: removed a stupid comment. 😆
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canspop3 days ago
+4
Landlocked?
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BlackbirdSage3 days ago
+1
😆 my mistake... I read Switzerland for some reason!
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engineeringstoned2 days ago
+2
Living in Switzerland.. how?
I read about this all the time, but ... how do you mistake these for another?
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Skog133 days ago
+2
Yeah when like 80% of the country has a coastline but still counts as landlocked lol.
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BlackbirdSage3 days ago
-4
And even more importantly why?
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Whole_Ad34983 days ago
American by any chance?
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BlackbirdSage3 days ago
-4
Piss off mate. It was early & I didn't have my glasses on.
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