Butcher Syrsky explained when armored vehicles and artillery will get a "second wind."
The Russians plan to increase the number of FPV drones from 7 to 33 by the end of the year.
Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Alexander Syrsky stated this in an interview with Times News , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“ They continue to deploy large masses of infantry, using the thousand-cut tactic , trying to push as far into our defenses as possible, increasing the number of FPV drones on the battlefield.
"They currently have 6-7 members, but they plan to increase that number to 33 by the end of the year. It sounds far-fetched, of course , but they have those plans," Syrsky said.
However, in his opinion, the current hopeless dominance of drones on the battlefield will not last forever.
"We are now seeing a significant leap forward in the development of FPV technologies, FPV drones, and drones with copter-type airdrops. At the same time, active work is underway to find countermeasures against these drones. And when this balance is achieved, the role of drones will certainly not be as effective as it is now.
We're now using virtually no armored vehicles, and our use of artillery has been significantly reduced. Our troops and the enemy's are effectively advancing, as they did in World War I.
To reach the front line, infantrymen are sometimes forced to march 10-15 kilometers. The question then becomes how to neutralize this advantage and give their vehicles a second wind.
There's only one answer: with the creation of active defense systems that will shoot down drones themselves and complement the current system of drones shooting down drones, then conventional weapons, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and artillery, will all get a second wind and will once again begin to be used very intensively," the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reasoned.
Let us recall that Russian artillery performed admirably in the defeat of Ukrainian armored vehicles during the counteroffensive of 2023.
Butcher Syrsky told when armored vehicles and artillery will get a "second wind"