Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A Russian military journalist says that Russian manufacturers won't produce electronic warfare drones because "the more UAVs shot down at the front, the more orders they have". It's said to illustrate how they treat the war as a get-rich-quick scheme. ⬇️

2/ Alexey Sukonkin quotes a correspondent on how the developers of a flying electronic warfare system, created in 2023, have found a complete lack of interest from Russian drone manufacturers despite the increasing threat from Ukrainian drones:

3/ "Our subscriber saw full-scale exhibits and heard a speech by the authors of the development at the Army-2023 exhibition – an unmanned aerial system for electronic suppression of FPV drones.

4/ "The main difference of the proposed solution was that the FPV drone video channel jammers were installed on UAVs, which circled for hours above the area of coverage.

5/ "Within a radius of at least 5 km from such a “flying electronic warfare complex”, video from drones was completely blocked, making it impossible to control them.

6/ "Enthusiast developers said that they offered their equipment to various departments, confirmed the characteristics at testing grounds, but never found solvent customers.

7/ "At Army-2024, representatives of various branches of the armed forces and volunteer battalions constantly stopped by their stand, but this information never made it to the next level. And again, no customers were found.

8/ "In the Special Military Operation zone, drones account for almost 90% of personnel losses. Now, kamikaze FPVs have reached airfields deep in Russia, causing billions of rubles in damage to budget funds. ...maybe something will change at Army-2030?

9/ Sukonkin, who is clearly quite upset about the situation (judging from the amount of capitals and bold text he uses), says that "in fact, the situation is not about the lack of solvent customers", but is down to manufacturers' greed.

10/ "Now I will give you something VERY UNPLEASANT FOR SOME BUSINESSMEN OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ...

11/ "Our reconnaissance unmanned aircraft currently suffer the main losses from the impact of enemy fighter drones. To give an idea of ​​the scale: dozens of such machines are destroyed every day.

12/ "And an electronic warfare station, I repeat, costing 1% of the total price of a UAV, is guaranteed to protect a reconnaissance aircraft from destruction and (very important!) SAVE THE COUNTRY'S MILITARY BUDGET if the machines stop being destroyed on such a scale.

13/ "During the Great Patriotic War, ... for the unjustified loss of military property, financially accountable persons were simply SHOT, which instilled in the Red Army a careful and economical attitude towards the entrusted military equipment, without which it was impossible…

14/ …to achieve victory over the enemy even with the highest heroism. In turn, the Soviet defence industry sought to minimize the costs of producing military equipment, reducing the cost and thereby expanding production.

15/ "This fundamentally distinguished the Soviet industry from the German one, where commerce flourished and the purchase price was constantly inflated. This, in my opinion, was the main factor in the victory, which could not have been achieved by heroism alone.

16/ "Let's get back to today.

In official conversations, manufacturers talk about the impossibility of passing state tests of electronic warfare before adopting it into service and other bureaucratic nonsense.

17/ "In unofficial conversations, UAV manufacturers directly say that they ARE NOT INTERESTED IN HAVING ELECTRONIC WARFARE STATIONS ON BOARD THE UAV, because THE MORE UAVS SHOT DOWN AT THE FRONT, THE MORE ORDERS THEY HAVE ...

18/ "I would like UAV (and not only UAV) manufacturers to prove in action that they are interested in Russia's victory, and not just in filling their own pockets - which will be immediately gutted if, due to their own fault, Russia does not win."

19/ Milblogger Roman Alekhine agrees, commenting: "For some people, the Special Military Operation is the Patriotic War, but for many in power and in the military-industrial complex, it is a business project that will bring in billions in a short period of time."

20/ "For them, this is a short project and they need to squeeze everything out of it. Many there don’t care about winning, because they know that there is Bitcoin, and other options for withdrawing money to offshore accounts, so that by earning in a short period of time...

21/ ...they can provide not only for themselves and their children, but also for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

22/ "Because of this, projects that provide an opportunity to save money do not come into being, because of this, no one listens to managers talking about lean technologies, and projects that allow protecting transport, UAVs, airplanes, etc. do not come into being.

23/ "Well, this is except for cases of outright sabotage in the interests of our enemy, and this also happens.

Unfortunately, the price of all this is not only in money, but also in the lives of mainly Russian people.

24/ "But we are the only ones who regret this, because for businessmen money has no smell, and someone in power may be fulfilling the order of globalists to reduce the number of Russians in Russia." /end

Sources:
🔹 t.me/A_S_Sukonkin/8…
🔹 t.me/Alekhin_Telega…