An Area-I Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System, or ALTIUS, sails through the skies at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., March 4. (Jose Mejia-Betancourth/CCDC AvMC Technology Development Directorate)
The United States Department of Defense announced on February 24, the one-year anniversary of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, that it will be supplying more drones to Kiev forces as part of a new $2 billion military aid package.
The new weapons will be provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the Pentagon to purchase weapons from industry rather than draw from the U.S. Army.
As a part of the new military aid package, Kiev forces will receive for the first time the Altius 600, a small drone developed by Area-I. The tube-launched drone has a range of 444 kilometers and endurance of more than four hours. The manufacturer says that the drone can operate as a loitering munition.
The package also includes the AeroVironment Jump 20 fixed-wing, vertical takeoff and landing drone, which has an endurance of 14 hours and a range of 185 kilometers.
Kiev forces will also get CyberLux K8 handheld quadcopter surveillance drones as well as more AeroVironment Switchblade 600 loitering munitions with a range of 80 kilometers and an endurance of up to 20 minutes.
A Jump 20 Group 3 Unmanned Aerial System takes off on Oct. 13, 2022, on San Clemente Island, California. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Collin MacKown)
The new $2 billion military aid package also includes more ammunition for M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, more ammunition for 155 mm artillery, more munitions for unspecified laser-guided rocket systems as well as unspecified anti-drone and electronic warfare detection equipment.
Ukraine has received thousands of drones from the U.S. and other allies since the start of the Russian special military operation operation.
Many Ukrainian drones were shot down, destroyed on the ground or even captured by the Russian military. Nevertheless, drones, especially small ones, continue to play a key role in the offensive and defensive tactics of Kiev forces in the special military operation zone.
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Unless I’m mistaken, the Altius 600 would be the first very long range weapon platform delivered to Ukraine (other than anti-ship and anti-air systems). A lack of Russian response on the matter will normalize this type of aid and lead to the delivery of a wider range of weapons with similar range in short order.
Broadly, (1) a lack of response to incremental escalation keeps the door opened for continued incremental escalation by NATO. (2) Russia needs to develop a similarly incremental response system to NATO escalation. Otherwise when Russia is finally forced to respond, the nature of the response will be perceived as significantly escalatory by external parties, leading to unnecessary reputational damage and greater uncontrolled escalation risks.
It looks kinda slow and no real challenge to shoot down… I forget the max effective height or range on ZSU 23/4’s but it was a 4-barrel russian anti-aircraft gun, radar-guided I think, and you could probably get that drone with it without too much trouble. Russia knows their stuff…
Typical russia circus comment. Everything others has is not good.
Very much as bert133 is slow himself.
And of course these will be shot down right away. In low hight those drones even would be taken down with tennis rackets.
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Your argument is playing into the “boil the frog” approach that NATO has taken to its escalation policy. Even if this system is not particularly effective, it pushes the boundary of acceptability for military aid when it comes to range. As with every NATO escalation so far, it will be more effective initially, and its effectiveness will wane as Russian forces adapt, but adaptation always comes at a cost in resource reallocation and process optimization.
I think it will be a problem for a while. It’s tiny and composite with a small RCS, and its propeller gives it a small heat signature. Yes, ZSUs would be a good counter, but most elements of the kill chain for conventional AA, ZSU included, are optimized to shoot down other targets. It forces high readiness over a large number of facilities due to its range. It’s cheap, which means it has a large viable target list, and its payload is enough to blow up an unprotected depot or destroy or disable an parked plane.
You’re right. Russia is playing this very terribly. They also went and cried to NATO to resolve the Nordstream pipeline explosions, which NATO and Filthmerica did.
That’s like going to the guy that robbed you and asking him to admit he’s guilty and turn himself in to the police station.
Russia’s soft response on everything is worrying.
Those are the facts compared to the strong donated defence, we give the Ukras.
You are overrate the Rusticas because You are told.
Don’t be childish. Russia is going through the procedures pro forma. You should expect no less. The effects will be long term if any. Europe is being tossed under the bus by the USA. Sooner or later NATO has to break.
Expecting rapid results is not a good idea. Russia has all the resources on its side while the West talks about their minions being force to eat bugs and live in tiny houses. Time is on Russia’s side.
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Nordstream is vital German infrastructure, destroyed by their US owners and their NATO partners. Germany’s total failure to respond to an act of war by the US is absolutely pathetic.
Yes, its a sliding. But Putin has threats about intercontinals himself.
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OK but after bakhmut collapses how much more military does ukraine honestly have. And apparently the only reason bakhmut isn’t flat as a board is because of human shields, civilians for ukranian soldiers to hide behind. R/C toys can’t compensate for ukraine’s military losses, which are about to get a lot worse. Zelensky belongs in a russian courtroom, accounting for himself and his cronies and formally surrendering on behalf of his army, and not in receipt of more western military largesse.
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1629222523299590145?s=20
Ha ha. there we go again.
The Ukras has a big reserve even they have not enough hard stuff and a parts of them are new ones.
The socalled human shield are russians, which will not be evacuated. They are human shields. Very much as the Russian foirces care little for them. I heard a number of 6.000.
Your kind decide nothing there. You cant even decide in fairness in Your own country. Ukras has no lack of troops. The have had big losses but certainly not in propaganda seize You most likely rely on.
As usual You dont care or ignore the Rustican losses too.
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Russia needs to step up their UAV tactics and push Ukrainians further west.
It might be easier to push them east.
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That is going to happen at a second stage;)
So we finally won. Uhhh, not yet? Jesus, are we waiting for Christmas or what?
It’s been nine years since your ATO started Ihor. No Donbas, no Crimea. Millions of refugees gone. Over one hundred thousand Ukrainian soldiers killed. You have lost, and lost enormously. Sad, Ihor, sad.
The US Navy should donate its aircraft carriers to Ukraine.
this week they say no no no… only so next week when they give it we feel like they first considered it wrong then based on careful consideration they really needed it… and when they start talking about requests for nukes and western warmongers say no no no… just know you have about a week to dig a real deep bomb shelter for yourself
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Fancy little toys so the criminals responsible for the forced medical death of the past two years can further kill and distract rather than face justice. One lone man from Galilee warned them about the cost of doing evil. It’s time for them to reap their rewards in the eternal punishment of hades.
human zombie wave into Bakhmut and wasting men by the tens of thousands Ukrainians are preparing something very big and very special.
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1629222523299590145
The triple-dong-dildo triple-secret trizub surprise! That’s how they won back Crimea and Donbas for their US owners.
Idi Amin said: Let’s try this new bullshit weapons that are produced by shitfuck companies, named Environmmental waste, whose ceos are friends with Hunter the sexual maniac.
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That indeed will create big problems for the russians. They must be ready to counter this threat if not directly then responding indirectly by different means. Ex: wave of Kalibr and supersonic missiles into nuclear plant energy hubs which will denazificate finally ALL ukroshit energy grid. Or, the russian MoD could find other hefty response like was in the Krimeea bridge terrorist blast case. They have plenty of options, that’s not a problem.