Drones Have Made Traditional Artillery Almost Impossible to Use — So Russia and Ukraine Both Turned to the Same Cheap Replacement
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Harrison Kass
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National Security JournalDrones Have Made Traditional Artillery Almost Impossible to Use — So Russia and Ukraine Both Turned to the Same Cheap Replacementnationalsecurityjournal.orgFor a century, massed artillery ruled the battlefield. The war in Ukraine has made it a liability — drones now spot a gun almost the instant it fires and hunt it down. So both sides have turned to the same cheap answer: the glide bomb, an old unguided bomb fitted with folding wings and satellite guidance that a jet can release dozens of kilometers away. Russia fired more than 1,800 in a single week of June. Now Ukraine has begun building its own to match them.
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