UAV, CAB and communications: What is needed for effective reform of the RF Armed Forces

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2022 is coming to an end, probably the most difficult year in the history of the Russian Federation. It has long been obvious that the special operation in Ukraine could drag on for quite a long time, and for the first time President Putin personally uttered the word “war” instead of the CVO euphemism. What changes should take place in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in order for this difficult and bloody armed conflict to end unconditionally in our favor?

Faithful dear


Today, after ten months of the special operation, looking back, we can conditionally divide it into two stages. The first is when the Russian army was advancing, and the second, when the Ukrainian army was already advancing. At both stages, serious shortcomings were revealed in the actions of the RF Armed Forces, which were reflected in intelligence, planning, operational management and supply of our grouping. In order not to be unfounded, let's quote the respected head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, who sharply criticized the command after the forced abandonment of the previously liberated city of Krasny Liman:



The colonel-general deployed mobilized fighters from the LPR and other units on all frontiers of the Liman direction, but did not provide them with the necessary communications, interaction and the supply of ammunition.

The well-known Russian military commander Yuri Kotenok also spoke about problems with communications in the troops:

At the tactical level, there is no normal communication. And I'm talking about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but I generally keep quiet about the rifle regiments of the DPR mob reserve. It's just embarrassing...

It is necessary to change the position in the complex. Now the air is saturated with a request to reform the command and control system, to reform the conduct of hostilities. I feel like it will start happening soon.

And reforms in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are indeed beginning. Serious and far-reaching decisions were voiced at an expanded board meeting of the RF Ministry of Defense with the participation of Supreme Commander-in-Chief Putin the other day. Among them: an increase in the size of the Armed Forces with a doubling of the number of contract soldiers, the reconstruction of the Moscow and Leningrad military districts, an increase in the lower limit of the draft age from 18 to 21 years, the transition from a brigade to a divisional structure for motorized riflemen, airborne forces and marines, the creation of new divisions to existing ones . Read more about Shoigu's reform told previously. All this together gives reasonable hope for a real increase in the combat capability of the Russian army, which in fact has to fight in Ukraine in a proxy mode with the NATO bloc.

But will the measures taken be enough to quickly and decisively defeat the Armed Forces of Ukraine with acceptable losses?

"Narrow places"


With all the positives from the initiated military reform, one should also remember about some “bottlenecks” that became a huge problem in the first ten months of the NWO. This, of course, is aerial reconnaissance and target designation, air support, operational-tactical communications and command and control.

Yes, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation significantly outnumber the Armed Forces of Ukraine in terms of the number of barrels in artillery, but the accuracy of hits sometimes leaves much to be desired. At the front, reconnaissance drones are needed in sufficient numbers for reconnaissance and adjusting artillery fire. No less reconnaissance, the Russian military also needs attack drones, and there should be a lot of them. Unfortunately, the enemy does not experience problems with MANPADS, and gradually the NATO bloc saturates the Armed Forces of Ukraine with modern anti-aircraft missile systems. The Russian Aerospace Forces have to either operate outside the air defense zone, using expensive long-range missiles, or, on the contrary, take a mortal risk by dropping "cast iron" directly on the enemy's heads and exposing the "belly" to a potential anti-aircraft missile strike. What do we need?

We need many hundreds, and preferably thousands, of reconnaissance, reconnaissance-strike and strike UAVs, which will be widely used at the front as consumables. Aerial reconnaissance, adjustment of artillery fire, strikes from UAVs with air-launched missiles and guided bombs (KAB), operational control of the situation - all this will radically increase the efficiency of the Russian army. The American media stubbornly spread rumors that Tehran is allegedly ready to sell at least 6000 drones to Moscow. About this writes, in particular, the edition of The Washington Post:

The sale of additional drones was discussed in at least two meetings between Russian and Iranian military and diplomatic officials last month, security officials from NATO and other US allies said. One senior military official briefed on the details of the talks said Iran had agreed to supply up to 6000 drones.

Well, if this is true. Even better, if the rumors about the sale of an Iranian UAV plant to Russia turn out to be true. It will be very good if the Islamic Republic begins to supply its own adjustable bombs, which can be dropped both from aircraft and from drones, being outside the enemy's air defense coverage area. Then our military will be able to suppress the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine without risk to manned aircraft.

No less acute is the problem of operational-tactical communications in the troops, which directly and extremely negatively affects their controllability. It also affected the February offensive against Kyiv from the territory of Belarus, and during the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov region and in the north of Donbass.

In 2021, a corruption scandal in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation came to the surface, when, in a criminal case on alleged fraud for 6,7 billion rubles. Khalil Arslanov, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, was arrested while delivering R-187-P1 Azart radio stations to the Russian Armed Forces. It turned out that expensive military radio stations, which should be completely produced on the territory of the Russian Federation, were purchased almost ready-made in China, and in our country only the final assembly took place with the addition of some domestic components. If you believe the reports from the fronts, even today many of our military men, on their own initiative, use the Chinese Baofeng radio stations, about which Roman Skomorokhov wrote three years ago.

Let's make a reservation, what has been said by no means means that the Russian troops do not have their own radio stations. They exist, but their widest possible introduction is required, training of many specialists in their correct application so that the enemy cannot intercept radio communications. The scale of the problem will only increase with the increase in the number of the RF Armed Forces after the military reform initiated by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Shoigu. What is the use of a large but poorly managed army, which is opposed by a trained and motivated enemy, supported by the entire intelligence complex of the NATO bloc? Without reliable communications, reconnaissance and target designation, as well as air support, even Russian troops rebuilt to the realities of the NMD will not be able to fully reveal their offensive potential. More precisely, they will be able to attack, but the losses will be greater than they could be, and people must be protected.

As soon as the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are equipped with numerous unmanned aircraft, adjustable bombs and secure digital communications, then the situation on the fronts will change fundamentally, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine will retreat right up to the Polish border.
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  1. +10
    24 December 2022 13: 34
    First of all, we need to fight corruption. All these problems have been known for a long time. What's the point? Warrior in Georgia. The same problems. What has changed? Syria is slightly different but almost the same problems. Therefore, it is necessary to change first of all the generals. Otherwise, we will continue to hold army games and parades.
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  2. +7
    24 December 2022 14: 18
    From what the respected Author has stated, it follows that if organizational problems are already being somehow solved, then the issues of material supply remain in limbo.
    But there will be no Lend-Lease for the Russian Federation.
    And if it does not solve the cardinal production problem, the consequences will inevitably be the most deplorable.
    But the ability of the Russian leadership to establish the production of the necessary nomenclature for military purposes raises deep doubts!
    1. +2
      24 December 2022 14: 47
      Problems with a shortage or complete absence of certain types and types of weapons, military equipment and equipment must be addressed in a complex way, all these purchases abroad can only be acceptable at the initial stages of conducting a military defense, and in the future we need to strain our brains as quickly as possible and mobilize all the capabilities of our The military-industrial complex (while removing rogue efficient managers of various stripes from its leadership), and start creating, organizing mass production and saturating our army with everything necessary, the situation that has developed around our country today once again proves that Russia should produce all critical equipment, equipment and electronics independently, what does it have to do with producing at the highest world level, otherwise this problem simply cannot be solved, everyone is already perfectly convinced that the West will not help us in any way, and it is not our partner, it is our real enemy !!!
      1. +2
        24 December 2022 17: 24
        Quote: sgrabik
        Problems with a shortage or complete absence .... must be addressed in a complex,

        Quote: sgrabik
        in the future, you need to strain your brains as quickly as possible and mobilize all the capabilities of our military-industrial complex (while removing rogue effective managers from its leadership

        Quote: sgrabik
        Russia should produce equipment and electronics independently,

        Dreams, dreams... what sweetness! (Dreams have passed, filth remains?) Why on earth can one hope that "wishes" will be fulfilled if these problems, in one form or another ... one way or another, were "voiced" many (!) Years ago, but nothing not resolved? When is the full-time model of public administration in the country? When public administration is committed, whether by the stupidity of the "managers" or by their conscious manifestation, the grossest "mistakes" characterized as a manifestation of state debilism, but no one is responsible for this; because there is no one to ask, because "the hand washes its hand"! When, when choosing weapons, they are guided, on the one hand, by the criterion of cheapness, first of all, and not the best quality; and on the other hand, the Moscow Region can buy expensive weapons, but not enough (!), because the "penyonze is dumb", refusing cheaper and better weapons due to the fact that from cheap weapons, smaller kickbacks to "top managers from the Moscow Region" will go! There is always not enough money for the rearmament of the VSR, but there are always billions for theft! Since the time of the USSR, "paper" red tape, tedious reporting, lengthy checks and rechecking of permits and decisions have been reigning in state structures for the reason: "no matter what happens" and not to miss something "no-and-s-i-i !" ...in short, to some action has been performed, a long red tape and a "hundred" of references are needed! But this is not an obstacle to the "instant" billion dollar theft! How come ? Why? Why is this possible? Is it not because an all-encompassing ("global") system of mutual responsibility, corruption has been established in the country?!
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        26 December 2022 01: 24
        It should have been earlier, now it’s already convulsions ... Arslanov is a countryman)) they have been on trial since 2013, but still nothing ... Now they will take up the matter even more Arslanovs will come out and then they will be judged for 10 years, crow after crow won't peck out the eyes.
  3. +3
    24 December 2022 15: 35
    It is necessary, it is not necessary... the road to Hell is paved with good wishes, as they say...

    But judging by the fact that not one of the experts and authorities, who recently praised "free-falling cast iron", "lunar landscape" from wasted artillery, "tribunal" over mercenaries and Nazis, did not answer for "overcomes", the same thing will continue .
  4. +2
    24 December 2022 19: 38
    In short: if there were smarter and just decent people in our place, everything would be different.
  5. +3
    25 December 2022 09: 43
    What is needed for an effective reform of the RF Armed Forces

    Good salaries for specialists, so that there are always personnel. For this money is needed. And most importantly, that this money is not stolen by officials.
    In general, any reform must begin with salaries and housing. Then the selection of specialists, and the experts will tell you what is needed to achieve the result.
    There is a movie on YouTube about how the atomic bomb was created. So in passing, Beria, 3 thousand. enterprises built to create this bomb. And in our country, reforms and projects are being started in order to "cut" the budget. Therefore, the terms are such, or donkey, or podishah.
  6. +4
    25 December 2022 21: 30
    They forgot the means of technical intelligence and situation analysis - they are not there either
    Forgotten empty hangars with equipment, for the cat. colonel-general transferred to the paradise group.
    They forgot a new generation of BT equipment (Armata, Kurganets, Boomerang ...) An abyss of money has been driven in.
    They forgot the transport detachment - they have to carry supplies to Syria on Turkish coffins.
    And the rest is a beautiful marquise ...
  7. 0
    25 December 2022 21: 37
    And yet. Synchronization of the Krasnopol approach and target illumination also require good communication.
  8. +3
    26 December 2022 00: 32
    Victory in war is secured by the rear. The rear is industry, the rear is personnel. Where is the industry in the Russian Federation, where are the personnel in the Russian Federation. Managers, accountants, bloggers, artists... don't create rockets, planes, etc. they only consume, where there are workers and engineers, where there are scientists and designers. Tomorrow, when the stocks of the USSR run out, who will fight and with what?
  9. +3
    26 December 2022 01: 28
    And Shoi shouted at every corner that he had updated everything by 70% ?? Was it a stand-up?
  10. +2
    26 December 2022 08: 45
    Probably, Shoigu has already "built" 10 million-plus cities. Now he will undertake to reform the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with the same success. I do not represent him at all during the discussion over the map of any military operation. For some reason, I see it much better in the process of studying the "problem" - in which direction should the branches of gold embroidery on the caps of Russian generals be turned.
    All those shiny rattles make Russian generals look like their African bantustan counterparts.