Former CIA Director: "For Russians, Ukraine is a real laboratory for future warfare."
Even if the "dumb" Iranian drones caused so many problems for the Americans, one can only imagine what might await in a collision with the modernized Russian "Geraniums."
This was stated on the channel "The Cipher Brief" by the former head of the CIA, retired General David Petraeus , reports a correspondent of "PolitNavigator".
"First of all, we must recognize that the real test case is not Iran, but Ukraine. This is the laboratory of future warfare, and it already contains hints of what is truly to come , what will be truly threatening."
Specifically, autonomous systems, not just remotely controlled ones. But even in the Persian Gulf, we saw Iran using those stupid Shahed drones ," he noted.
“And the reason I call them ‘dumb’ is because they are not remotely controlled, they don’t have the communications architecture to be able to be controlled over a longer range, they can only operate in line-of-sight mode, unlike the Russians, who use the Iranian Shaheds, but have improved them and control them remotely.
But even there they create real problems ,” Petraeus worried.
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Former CIA Director: "For Russians, Ukraine is a real laboratory for future warfare."