How these systems divide in terms of task and layer.
Also useful equipment recognition as these are the specials that the UA will have wanted to destroy early on in the campaign.
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In case you wondered what made up the Leer-3... then here you go.
The RB-341В "Leer-3" electronic warfare system supported by Orlan-10 drones. Task is to intercept satellite navigation signals, 3G, 4G communications and text messages.
But as I've been pointing out in my other threads and writing on hacking, SIGINT and battlefield communications, this stuff makes up one end of what we call the new war ecology as we describe it in #radicalwar.
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And what I really love about this UA General Staff slide deck is that they are happy to use images taken by the Russians themselves on their personal smartphones.
Photos the Russians no doubt post on their personal social media feeds... 😀
I co-authored this. We've had some great endorsements. About time it got a plug.
'The essential guide to the new war of all against all, where everything is weaponised, & where the lines between peace & conflict are forever blurred'
'...information has become the overarching domain, with the smartphone, not the rifle, as the granular instrument of combat. A startling rethink of the C21st battlefield that blows away the traditional boundaries between state, society & the military'
'A fascinating assessment of the impact of our ubiquitous access to, and employment of, information & media. Positing a radical vision of war in which perception is reality, this book challenges our norms &, while you might not necessarily like it, you should probably read it!'
I'm linking a couple of threads together because they all have connections back to this Microsoft Report on Hybrid (military-cyber) attacks on Ukraine.
Ukraine cut smartphone roaming to Russian/Belorussian numbers. Russians started using Ukrainian phones. The Ukraine Govt asked civilians to report in the phones that had been stolen.
Hey presto, Ukraine has a backdoor to Russian phone use.
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Maybe more significantly, UA is defo making use of US SIGINT planes flying over Poland/Romania.
"I'm sure that they're collecting radio communications & other forms of intelligence that they then pass on to the Ukrainians that is invaluable in their prosecution of this fight"
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