Technologies waiting in the wings include promising new satellite communications tools to connect Ukrainian soldiers, radars that enhance the Ukrainian military’s ability to track and defeat Russian missiles or tanks, and the next level of drones that are easier to deploy to gather intelligence and target Russian formations. An effort that started in April with an old-fashioned request for information process is now looking likely to drag well into the summer. It’s conventional wisdom by now that the future of war is unfolding in real time in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine.įor years, the simmering hostilities between Vladimir Putin’s government and his NATO-friendly neighbor have created a testing ground for information warfare and cybercrime.Īnd now that the conflict is an open military battle, it has played out on Twitter, and in satellite images, using new technology in a way no other modern war has done.īut the future can also be maddeningly slow to arrive - especially when the U.S Defense Department’s acquisition system is involved.Īs my colleague Lee Hudson and I reported in a piece out today, defense executives and bureaucrats are complaining that many of their efforts to provide new technologies to help Ukraine beat back the Russian invasion are bogged down in a Pentagon aid process that is still too lumbering and bureaucratic. Drones are been extensively used by Russian and Ukrainian troops on the war.
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