Military expert spoke about the need to improve communication between UAV operators and unit commanders

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A special military operation showed the huge role of unmanned aircraft in modern combat. Drones provide reconnaissance and target designation, as well as confirm the defeat of targets. However, for maximum efficiency, it is necessary to seriously work on ensuring communication between UAV operators and unit commanders.


Military expert Vladislav Shurygin believes that it is necessary to achieve continuous monitoring capabilities using reconnaissance drones to a depth of 20-30 km from the contact line. At the same time, drones must be integrated into the communication systems used for prompt response to changing situations.

One of the things that the dronedified army should learn to do, as they say, by default in the very near future, is to organize continuous monitoring of space to a depth of 5 km from the LBS by means of company and battalion reconnaissance, and 20-30 km by reconnaissance forces , respectively, regimental, brigade and divisional. All this should be accompanied by technical vision tools that allow you to continuously map the battlefield with the application and classification of all objects of any significance and the reduction of this information into a single distributed database in a network of data processing centers

– writes Vladislav Shurygin.

The expert emphasizes that the problem of communication between UAV operators and commanders arose last year. As an example, he cited an episode of the epic battle of the Alyosha tank, which alone fought against eight enemy armored vehicles. While the drone operator filmed what was happening, there was no communication with the tank crew.

Quite quickly it became clear that from the fact that the UAV operator sees something on the screen, it is not at all a fact that his commander and, therefore, the rest of the unit sees it. The upgrade of communication systems, and hence the training of those responsible for it, has become one of the indispensable "encumbrances" of our droneification programs.

Shurygin emphasizes.

Now this problem is being discussed in army circles, including at the Army forum taking place in the Moscow region. It is obvious that in the near future the training program for UAV operators and military signalmen will be supplemented taking into account the experience of the NWO.
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  1. Vladimir Tuzakov Offline Vladimir Tuzakov
    Vladimir Tuzakov (Vladimir Tuzakov) 18 August 2023 11: 40
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    Controlling a reconnaissance UAV, especially a short-range quadcopter (3-5 km), is not a difficult task and any squad leader or platoon commander can master and apply. It is possible to train in two or three days even at LBS by instructors. The introduction of UAVs into the work of the commander of primary units, with the exclusion of an extra link - operators of reconnaissance UAVs, is necessary in the further development of the RF Armed Forces. To control strike UAVs, specialists of a higher level are already needed, such as being included in the staff of a company, battalion. Conclusions: The UAV has become a necessary means of combat, and therefore it has to be intensively introduced into the weapons system and included in the provision of units with property. The management of short-range reconnaissance UAVs is best entrusted to the commanders of the units. For deeper reconnaissance and target engagement, battalion units are needed. The systems for the introduction of UAVs in the troops should be constantly improved and implemented, because the UAV has proven its effectiveness and necessity. Earlier, only a lot was said about this in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, but "the roasted rooster began to peck", and belated changes began in a hurry ..
  2. DO Offline DO
    DO (Dmitriy) 18 August 2023 13: 20
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    Separate the cutlets from the flies.
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    All this should be accompanied by technical vision tools that allow you to continuously map the battlefield with the application and classification of all objects of any significance and the reduction of this information into a single distributed database in a network of data processing centers

    What was said in the quote means a redundant set of servers united by a redundant data transmission network with software of a redundant distributed database of objects linked to electronic maps (redundancy is necessary to ensure the survivability of the military database, if the enemy damages individual parts of the system).
    The database is replenished from laptops and tablets of operators (or commander-operators).
    "Technical vision" means the operation of software for pattern recognition of significant objects (targets) installed on servers. That is, automatic recognition software must complement the goals specified by the operators; objects indicated by operators must have labels that distinguish them from automatically recognized targets. Perhaps it would be correct to return to the operator automatically recognized targets not noticed by him in his square, for confirmation by the operator.

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    The expert emphasizes that the problem of communication between UAV operators and commanders arose last year. As an example, he cited an episode of the epic battle of the Alyosha tank, which alone fought against eight enemy armored vehicles. While the drone operator filmed what was happening, there was no communication with the tank crew.

    It is clear that the commanders (and fighters) on the LBS must be provided with means of communication without fail.
    However, in the aforementioned episode with the Alyosha tank, the tank commander said in an interview with a military correspondent that there was no communication because the communication channel was jammed by the enemy. Western technology allows you to jam any radio communications. Therefore, the LBS should be saturated with direction finders of enemy jammers, and the means of their immediate destruction.