Europe under extreme duress

[Randy Daytona]

We're so far behind when it comes to SUAS in ground combat it's not even funny. But it didn't have to be this way.

Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game

Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.

arstechnica.com

US armored vehicles were being destroyed so quickly that they were “respawned” and sent back into the simulated fray, a US official told The Wall Street Journal.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Palantir is partnering with infantry types from 7th ID doing stuff at scale with Group 2 UAS. Right in your back yard.

It seems to be a signal that there are FG leaders out there willing to be persistent and throwing things against the wall and seeing what sticks, given the context of what operations in Ukraine are teaching us.

 

[Randy Daytona]

Looks like Russian sea drones were planning on attacking Romanian offshore natural gas platforms:

Romanian jet blasts drone near offshore gas platform, president blames Moscow

“This is hybrid warfare,” European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says.

www.politico.eu

 

[Swanee]

Palantir is partnering with infantry types from 7th ID doing stuff at scale with Group 2 UAS. Right in your back yard.

It seems to be a signal that there are FG leaders out there willing to be persistent and throwing things against the wall and seeing what sticks, given the context of what operations in Ukraine are teaching us.

Yeah. But it's still industry led. Those lessons learned will die with the NCOs who go to those exercises and then get out.