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o americkim dronovima kod ukra. preskupi, komplikovani za odrzavanje i nemaju nikakvu zastitu od elektronskog ometanja. nekad padaju cim polete toliko im smetaju ruski EW.
radjeni su po tadasnjim zahtevima pentagona. ne znam sta su oni mislili, da ce uvek ratovati protiv kozojeba koji ne znaju ni sta je EW? mora se kod amera sve zakomplikovati da ispadne skuplje. oni ce sledeci rat izgubiti jer ce im kompanije gladne profita isporucivati neki nedovrseni krs kojem treba jos 3x odraditi upgrade da proradi. znali bi oni da odrade sve kako treba, ali nece, profit je sveta krava.
ukri najcesce koriste kineske dronove, em su mnogo jeftiniji, em imaju i neku zastitu od ometanja.
The Silicon Valley company Skydio sent hundreds of its best drones to Ukraine to help fight the Russians. Things didn’t go well.
Skydio’s drones flew off course and were lost, victims of Russia’s electronic warfare. The company has since gone back to the drawing board to build a new fleet.
Most small drones from U.S. startups have failed to perform in combat, dashing companies’ hopes that a badge of being battle-tested would bring the startups sales and attention. It is also bad news for the Pentagon, which needs a reliable supply of thousands of small, unmanned aircraft.
In the first war to feature small drones prominently, American companies still have no meaningful presence. Made-in-America drones tend to be expensive, glitchy and hard to repair, said drone company executives, Ukrainians on the front lines, Ukrainian government officials and former U.S. defense officials.
Absent solutions from the West, Ukraine has turned to cheaper Chinese products to fill its drone arsenal.
“The general reputation for every class of U.S. drone in Ukraine is that they don’t work as well as other systems,” Skydio Chief Executive Adam Bry said, calling his own drone “not a very successful platform on the front lines.”
Ukrainian officials have found U.S.-made drones fragile and unable to overcome Russian jamming and GPS blackout technology. At times, they couldn’t take off, complete missions or return home. American drones often fail to fly at the distances advertised or carry substantial payloads.
Small American drones for the battlefield “have been underdeveloped,” said Mykola Bielieskov, a senior analyst at Ukraine’s Come Back Alive, a charity that has supplied more than 30,000 drones to the military.
In Skydio’s case, its drone was designed in 2019 to meet communications standards set by the U.S. military. Several startup executives said U.S. restrictions on drone parts and testing limit what they can build and how fast they can build it.
Those restrictions have proven a problem in the drone battles that sometimes require daily updates and upgrades, said Georgii Dubynskyi, Ukraine’s deputy minister of digital transformation, the agency that oversees the country’s drone program.
“What is flying today won’t be able to fly tomorrow,” he said. “We have to adapt to the emerging technologies quickly. The innovation cycle in this war is very short.”
ceo tekst je na https://www.wsj.com/world/how-american-drones-fail.....e-b0ebbac3 ima paywall
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