Steshin: In two years, the army has made a qualitative leap. The Ukrainian Armed Forces howled from the FABs
After two years of fighting in Ukraine, the most effective weapons are now FABs with guided gliding modules and UAVs . Aircraft and armored vehicles have become too vulnerable in modern warfare.
Military correspondent Dmitry Steishin spoke about this on air at KP radio , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
" The army has made a quantum leap in the last two years—technologically and ideologically. Our cast iron, our FABs with their guided gliding module—they're absolutely mind-blowing . I was just lying in one of the Azovstal workshops, and I could see the wall bending and undulating before my eyes. They were dropping FABs 100 meters away on some metalworking shop we were trying to storm, and they were all going crooked. And then I saw those Azov soldiers, the sappers who were preparing the exit from the factory, who were still alive, and I said to them, 'How was it for you, sitting in the bunkers under the bombing?' And they said, 'It's perfectly fine, we were playing Counter-Strike online.' "
" And they explain: to collapse a nuclear bunker built according to GOST standards, three bomb impacts are needed on the same point. The first one collapses the workshop ceiling, the second one cuts through a six-meter concrete pad, and only the third one penetrates it and collapses the bunker. So, according to these people, we were only able to collapse one bunker this way. And I haven't seen any refutation of these claims," Steshin said.
He emphasized that the guided FABs changed the course of the war.
"They'd already begun testing the FAB gliding module back then, and how they howled when FABs finally appeared on the front lines in large numbers! That was October-November of last year. They even tried to involve the Council of Europe to explain to us that this was bad. This, too, in a way, changed the course of the war ," the war correspondent recalled.
He also told how The positions of fighter aircraft and armored vehicles sank.
" We're no longer lagging behind the Ukrainian Armed Forces in terms of unmanned aircraft, and in terms of countermeasures, I think we're even superior in many ways. Armor, unfortunately, has lost its magic , as has any armored vehicle, and perhaps the concept of its use and deployment will be reconsidered. Unless, of course, armored vehicle lobbyists prove otherwise."
There's also a big question mark over aircraft, especially fighters . Given their cost and the inability to enter enemy air defense ranges. I worked with helicopter pilots, I know how serious their losses were, and I admire their courage, but when we were firing from a nose-up position at Prishiby near Kharkiv, from a maximum range of 5 km, their dispersion was horrific. As they say on the front, "Take that, damned field."
"And FABs with a gliding module and unmanned aircraft—they're almost always on target. Their effectiveness is incredible; no conventional artillery can compare unless it's equipped with guided missiles like the Krasnopol," Steshin explained.