We only see their cups, in black or khaki, five heads bent in a semicircle, ten eyes riveted on a console. Without the trellis, one would believe in a games agreement. But big insects buzz in the air, and it is in the drone war that, in a snowy field around Kharkiv, northeast of Ukraine, train these men from 92e Assault brigade. “Of course we play video gamesconfirms the commander, Nikola, the red cheeks of cold under his hat The North Face. Those who have trained are much more comfortable to pilot drones. And kill, swarm, even on the forehead.
“The face of war has changed. We ares The “New Wave”, Summarizes one of the managers of a drone manufacturing workshop, an old trade hidden in the basement of an old Soviet type building in Kharkiv. “The trenches of the trenches can do nothing today without these new strategic dronist battalions which, since 2023, have replaced heavy artillery and upset the fights”continues the soldier under the post of a bimbo in bra, Rangers and Kalashnikov. Drones are now 70 % responsible for the dead among the Russian as Ukrainians, and the use of these made the third year of war more deadly than the first two reunited.
Kamikazes, bombers, long range, more than a year that drones have been used for anything other than delivery and recognition. Embliling drones intercept enemy devices; Land drones undermine and demine remotely, and can launch armed attacks against opposing positions or bunkers – a “robotic” assault, without any soldier.
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Source: Lemonde