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The Ukrainian side released the video
Successfully destroyed using drones
Unmanned combat vehicles of the Russian army
The development of unmanned combat
In the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield has entered a new stage?
Correspondent of the Defense Military Channel
"Military fan ceiling" Wu Jie
Exclusive analysis
UAVs destroy unmanned combat vehicles
The second phase of unmanned combat has arrived
On March 31, the Ukrainian military released a video in which a Ukrainian drone operator successfully destroyed 2 Russian unmanned combat vehicles.
The video shows that the unmanned combat vehicle is driven by tracks and is armed with a grenade launcher and a machine gun. When they were attacked by drones, the 2 vehicles did not move at all and may have been destroyed or lost.
Although this is the Ukrainian army showing its results, it also proves that the development of unmanned combat has entered a new stage in the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield.
The use of drones to strike manned equipment on the battlefield, or even directly attack personnel, has become the norm in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. This "unmanned" versus "manned" mode of combat can be regarded as the first stage in the development of unmanned warfare.
The "unmanned" versus "unmanned" mode of warfare can be regarded as the second stage. At present, there has been a fight between unmanned equipment on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine, such as drone air battles, as well as the battle between Ukrainian drones and Russian unmanned combat vehicles.
Further down, it enters the third stage.
Improve the autonomous combat capability of unmanned equipment
Become the direction of the future
At present, the intelligence in unmanned combat is mainly to solve the problems of flight control and information transmission, and ultimately it is up to the operator to perform tactics and complete the attack. If a pilot can control only one drone at a time, it will fall to a disadvantage in large-scale unmanned combat operations.
Take, for example, the battle between UAVs and unmanned combat vehicles. From the perspective of firepower, protection and mobility, unmanned combat vehicles can be regarded as dividing the capabilities of the main battle tank into hundreds or thousands of parts.
This time, the Ukrainian drone destroyed 2 unmanned combat vehicles, and if you face dozens or even hundreds, you need to dispatch more drones than the number of combat vehicles to strike, because it is necessary to consider the normal consumption of equipment and the probability of attack failure, as well as the configuration of the operator.
If you still take the way of one-on-one catching and fighting, the drone side will definitely suffer. This will force the research and development institutions of drones to improve the autonomous attack capabilities of drones and reduce the dependence on pilots.
Imagine that the pilot can take off multiple drones with one click, and then select a few targets on the image, and the drone will automatically complete the flight control and strike mission. At this point, the pilot can quickly move or control another batch of drones to organize a new attack. There aren't many technical hurdles to this.
In such a confrontation, the side with independent capability will form a double pressure in terms of quality and scale against the side with weak independent capability, break the balance of the war of attrition with unmanned equipment, and once again trigger an arms race in the independent combat capability of unmanned equipment.
The development of unmanned equipment needs to be more vigilant
There is a "red line" here
There is also a more efficient situation, which is to give unmanned equipment the ability and authority to independently identify and attack targets. But this is a dangerous way forward, because there could be a situation where machines could decide to kill lives. At present, this is a "red line" in the mainstream thinking of human beings on the application of AI warfare, and no one will openly support it. But can the red-eyed hostile sides on the battlefield really resist not taking the initiative to cross the "red line" and open the "Pandora's box" of unmanned equipment to kill on their own in order to achieve a temporary victory?