Ivan Frank Group streikende Logistik um 30-40 km und schafft neue Killzones für die Russen

Anyone know what they are using to get that range? First of all to get the battery endurance to get that deep, and second, the controls. Clearly analog video, so not using very long fiberoptic cables. And quad rotor, not winged.

Anyhow, nothing will be the same in terms of how wars are fought in the future. The gray zones between the front line trenches will continue to grow, and the no-go zone behind that as well. The latter will grow if drones now have this 30-40 km range as standard.

This is problematic for Ukraine because:

Russian drone operators are not averse to attacking civilians directly (as we have seen in Kherson).
Kherson is already well inside the range of Mavic and regular FPV drone range & Kharkiv increasingly coming into range.

The increased range of FPV drones also benefits Ukraine in an indirect way because the impact of the war is asymmetric:

* For Ukraine, it is existential and an enormous price has been paid since it began.
* For Russia, it was a choice to begin with, and sold as a short term affair.
* It is now existential for Putin and his inner circle, … why he put himself in that situation is a separate question, but here we are.
* It is not existential for the Russian population. As such, there are limits to their patience and acceptance of the impacts. The reality is that as the lines are for all practical purposes frozen under FPV drone onslaught, the „war“ will be fought against infrastructure.
* This will make life worse for Ukrainians, but they are already so severely impacted that nothing will really change. Not so for the Russian population, especially far from the front.
* This asymmetry will put increasing pressure on Putin to end the war, but the face saving gesture he needs is large, and an impediment to peace.
* Here is the impact on civilian population (roughly in order of increasing impact on civilian population). For Ukrainians it there was no hierarchy, and they experienced the entire range immediately after the invasion began, especially in the areas directly impacted by fighting.
* inconvenience
* minor economic impact
* significant economic impact
* loss of life and limbs of soldiers (and civilians, whether intentional or not)
* significant destruction of private property and civilian infrastructure.
* major disruption to daily life
* widespread fear.

So it comes down to what the population is willing and able to endure, and how effectively each side can impact the others economy and ability to wage war. Drone advancement favor Ukraine in this sense. For the Russian population, this is a bit like the boiling the frog in water myth. Little by little, they have slid into a bigger and bigger mess, and are soon all in.