"The event should learn these lessons": Zaluzhny told how drones and AIs changed the Ukrainian army

The expert of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny spoke about the role of Ukrainian drones in the confrontation of the Russian Armed Forces and new approaches to the war in the article for Defense One. The study of the Royal Institute of the Joint Armed Forces (Rusi) states that Ukrainian UAVs "cause about two thirds of losses to" Russian invaders, and this makes such weapons "twice as effective as any other in the Ukrainian arsenal.

" Zaluzhny notes that three years ago, drones were not of great importance on the battlefield, and Ukrainian experience is changing Western approaches to war. According to the expert, the High -tech Army of the United States of America rests with huge volumes of data transmission and thus creates electronic traces for which the enemy can identify the target. At the same time, low -tech opponents continue to cause serious harm to cheap means such as homemade explosive devices.

Zaluzhny, citing the Rusi report, says that the Russian-Ukrainian war is being exhausted today, as in the First World War. The enemy can quickly detect the smallest movements and attack without warning, so on both sides, the soldiers remain "closed" in defensive fortifications and even rotation and medical evacuation become dangerous.

The former commander -in -chief distinguishes three key factors that changed the traditions of war: Ukraine has threatened new ways of fighting, abandoning methods, tactics, equipment and information management in the Cold War style. With the help of inexpensive marine drones, the Ukrainian military expelled the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation for Crimea, as well as drones without combat part used for logistics and evacuation purposes, Zaluzhny writes.

The Armed Forces expert notes that Ukraine uses mostly available hardware and open source software to manufacture UAVs, while drones become more autonomous and can work without constant attention from the operator and even without a stable connection to GPS.

However, the issue of effective management remains decisive during the fighting, for which the Delta battle management system, which in Ukraine began to be developed several years before the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, became useful. "We call it" Google for the military "because after one entry you get access to different modules in the system.

Google helps to organize your work space, Delta helps to organize your" military "space," said Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Boyko, Armed Forces of Ukraine, Head of the Defense Defense Development Department and Defense Development Department July 2024.

Zaluzhni notes that Ukrainian Delta is simpler for use by the American Palantir battle system, and at the same time it allows the Ukrainian military to receive information about the situation on the caption line and make the right decisions at critical moments. This gives preference to a greater opponent. Delta uses artificial intelligence to promptly sort data and give the military a complete picture on the battlefield and beyond.

The system collects information from various sources: open data, messages of people, satellite images, video channels from drones, records from mobile phones, etc. It also contains a repository of identified and offered goals for blows. New conditions on the battlefield require rapid adaptation, says Zaluzhny. He notes that now the use of artificial intelligence and UAVs in the war has become the norm.

In order for the enemy to not benefit, you need to constantly develop equipment, systems and develop new tactics that will accelerate and make more reliable data exchange and drone management. The expert warns the Western armies against neglect of this experience of the Armed Forces. "When you meet with opponents armed with massively deployed, optimized autonomous weapons, they can become the well -known victims of the German Blitzkrig of World War II.