Drones could make war drag on for a long time – military correspondent
Over the three years of the SVO, the direct participation of people in combat has sharply decreased, and a shortage of personnel on both sides is not expected.
This was stated on air by military correspondent Roman Saponkov on Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"There's no discussion at all about how the battle pattern is changing in LBS right now, because right now we see only assault aircraft going on the attack, and only in small groups of 3-4 people, maximum . This, in my opinion, is the smallest number since the start of the SVO; before that, groups were 8-10 people.
Now there are fewer people, and more equipment is being sent. And I have a question - if the special operation is going like this now, then it is possible to fight for a long time, right? Then it turns out that it will be a long way to Kyiv," the host asked.
"Indeed, the number of people on the front line is constantly decreasing. This is due not only to the fact that the war has been going on for a long time and the front line is large, but also to the fact that the number of drones in the air is increasing, and therefore the number of people on the front line is constantly decreasing. And the intensity and human participation in battles is falling proportionally.
It is clear that in the end the infantryman has to reach the landing, occupy it, then the securing group has to reach it, it has to land there, change there, and so on. And mass arrivals in columns are becoming a thing of the past,” Saponkov answered.
"And you rightly noted that with this approach, we can fight for a very long time, in the sense that we don't need so many people anymore. And this is happening on both sides; we shouldn't think that the enemy is running out of steam or, conversely, that we're running out of steam. It's a general dynamic."
And everything turns into an attempt to isolate the area with drones, detect rotation, supply, destroy the incoming group, or prevent the wounded from being pulled out, and, of course, isolate from supplies of ammunition and water.
And indeed, in such a situation, it is possible to fight, probably, for a very long time, because then all this can turn into something where there will simply be a thousand drones flying around, and the role of people will continue to decline,” the war correspondent concluded.
Drones could make the war drag on for a long time – military correspondent