Thread by @Danny_elMayor

Drone warfare during exercise Joint Viking 2025. 🇳🇴 Forsvaret shows the way. This is a much needed approach.

UAS are reality, both advantage and threat. Same as with mines or anti-tank weaponry, we need to adapt&integrate both technical AND tactical solutions to..

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...utilize this technology and new layer (not replacement!) of ground, aerial and maritime warfare, as effectively as possible for our gains, and at the same time, minimize the threats and effects that enemy unmanned systems will have on our own forces.

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Because ground (and other operational domains) warfare with "traditional" means, such as IFV's, artillery, etc. is not going anywhere, drones are just another layer, in some cases new, in some cases they are low-cost alternatives and in some cases they are force multiplier

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So learning how to work with them and work it out, is a needed step if we (Europe) want to stay effective and maintain relevance.

Approach demonstrated by 🇳🇴 Combat Lab, that can be described as "you do your thing, we will fu*k you up"

Is IMHO the most effective...

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Why? Because it can be hard to imagine for many, the extent of complications (and possible advantages) that unmanned systems bring to the table...

But exercises like this bring hard data, they bring reality to sterile conditions, that are no longer relevant...

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Seeing first-hand the effectiveness of UAV's, and how the usual SOP's fail and simulated casualities are piling up, is a strong incentive for commanding structures to really start working the problem, do some R&D on both tactical and technical level and adapt...

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We need that. NOW. Otherwise, should the worst happen, casualities will be piling up and they won't be simulated

They will be real & unnecessary. Soldiers down in the mud will pay the price for the rigidity of a system that was unable to adapt when there was time to do so

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Given the relatively (in general) small European national forces with limited trained reserves and (arguably) today's low societal tolerance for massive casualities. Especially eastern flank armies cannot afford to go into conflict poorly optimized and prepared for how...

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... battlefields of today and tomorrow look like, with massive proliferation of unmanned systems.

So yes, "combat labs" that will "stir up the water" during exercises, are most likely necessary aspect, to better optimize our forces for new and upcoming realities of warfare

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