🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Grandfather, OSINT of 🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺 sources: drone warfare and munitions, EW, landmines. ❤️my family (grandchildren!), reading, history.
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“**Attention‼️ By April 1, the enemy’s unmanned systems forces will reach 100,000 personnel, and this is not an April Fool’s joke. More than a month ago, the drone units already had 86,000+ people working in them. 
Another type used Perdite explosive placed in a shallow box. 
“Our turbo-degenerative society, defending military incompetence and condemning reporters who are willing and able to engage in development, demands that everyone do their own thing.
“Madyar declares as a goal the mass implementation of solutions for remote control of drones and robotization on LBS, and, speaking about the planned withdrawal of SBS units from the combat contact zone, he emphasizes the problem of staff shortages… 
“SORM [System for Operative Investigative Activities] is a [Russian] system of operational-search measures. Once, before 2014, I communicated with system integrators from Russia and learned a lot about this topic. 
“We are increasing the effectiveness of anti-aircraft drones and sooner or later we will reach an efficiency of up to 90%. I believe this will happen quickly. 
Controlled Reception Pattern Antennas resist jamming by adjusting reception.
“But it's also true that there's a factor of influence on society, primarily through attacks on energy. They were, let's say. And here they achieved significant success in that, not in terms of influencing society, but in terms of destroying our energy system. 
“The D-30 battery received an order from the army commander to move forward because they weren't meeting the average distance from the front line. There's a certain distance in kilometers that the guns should be from the front line. 
“From tomorrow, many units are being ordered to switch to MAX, close Telegram, and delete work channels, right up to completely deleting accounts. They promise checks, controls, and IT security. 
“Project management is being introduced, personal responsibility is being strengthened, transparent calculation of needs is being automated, redundant positions are being cut, and the role of analytics is being enhanced. 
In the Sahel, al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has used FPV drones armed with explosive warheads against fortified positions.
“In early 2026, one of the key commanders of the Ukrainian drone units, … Brody-Madyar, published a programmatic text in which he detailed his vision of the development of the war against Russia for the next year. 
“A few hours after the appearance of Russian drones with Starlink connectivity over Ukrainian cities, the Ministry of Defense team promptly contacted SpaceX and proposed solutions to this problem. 
Trees, buildings, terrain, and even vehicles within this zone can interfere because radio waves propagate as expanding wavefronts. 
“Indeed, if you compare the salary of a stormtrooper with that of a casual laborer in a small settlement, the gap is noticeable. But the devil, as usual, lies in the details. 
“It is largely happening outside the traditional major military powers of the West and their defense industries, which consistently top the rankings of global arms exports. In this revolution, we are directly involved, albeit with extensive use of imported components… 
Critically, its electronic visibility due to the abundance of emitting equipment increases the EM signature, making it easier to detect with radio reconnaissance.