ABATTBQ11 said:
When people ask what Ukraine could bring to NATO, it's this right here:
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For now, most drones are still jammable. And Ukraine still has the edge in EW. "They're certainly quicker than the Russians," says Mr Withington. The war has also made them quicker than many Western competitors. Mr Filimonov visited 15 military exhibitions around the world last year. The EW technology he saw was not only pricierAmerican and European amplifiers are two to three times more expensive than the Chinese ones commonly found in Ukrainian kitbut also obsolete. "These technologies are somewhere in 2021," he says, witheringly. "Everything they are producing is, for the moment, useless on the front line."
They're already living and fighting the next war. We're still living in the past. If we want to be prepared for a near peer conflict, we need this kind of expertise. War gaming against Ukraine and learning how to fight and adapt in the EW space is likely to prove critical when fighting a country like China that can crank out EW equipment cheaper and faster.
Along with gutting the Russian military, this insight is Ukraine's gift to us. Better to adapt now while we have time to do so in an orderly fashion, rather than willy-nilly in the middle of a big fight of our own.
So, while it might not be apparent, many of DOD's current acquisition and logistics decisions today
are being driven by lesson's learned from Ukraine, along with developing fresh TT&P for field operations under these new combat conditions.
Having said that, not everything pertinent to Putin's War applies equally to us. We operate the finest air force on the planet, for example, and many of Ukraine's clever adaptations are to overcome its lack of meaningful air power.
I don't want to derail but, as just one illustration, here's a three-part series on some of the ways the Army is adjusting to new combat reality. Much the same change applies to all the Services:
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