A summary by @YigalLevin of an article from the IDF magazine...
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May 27, 2025
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A summary by @YigalLevin of an article from the IDF magazine “Maarachot” on the FPV revolution in military affairs.
“FPV kamikaze (hereinafter simply FPV) is not another new approach or weapon, it is a revolution in military affairs. Old doctrines no longer work.
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“FPV kamikaze (hereinafter simply FPV) is not another new approach or weapon, it is a revolution in military affairs. Old doctrines no longer work.
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Russian blogger “Reporter Filatov” on how Russian Generals and the military-industrial complex cannot understand FPVs and the small drone warfare revolution.
“About FPV and that the world will never be the same.
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“About FPV and that the world will never be the same.
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“NATO generals have yet to grasp the full depth of the changes. The only ones who are improving in the field of FPV today are the armies of Ukraine and Russia.
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“The FPV factor cannot be bypassed with point solutions or ignored (at the cost of losses, for example), since it completely changes the very basis of tactics.
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“The phenomenal effectiveness of FPV is due to a combination of several factors: low cost, fantastic accuracy and range - tens of kilometers.
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“FPV provides a unique opportunity to concentrate a mass of fire damage (using FPV ‘flocks’) while maintaining decentralization of your own forces.
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“FPV on fiber optics should be noted separately, which at this stage cannot be stopped in any way except by destroying the operator himself.
FPV is unique in that the operator is in maximum (relative to the scale of the war) safety, and is extremely difficult to detect.
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FPV is unique in that the operator is in maximum (relative to the scale of the war) safety, and is extremely difficult to detect.
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“Small drones and FPV violated the main foundation of classical military thought - the concentration of effort and mass in specific areas. On a modern battlefield, you cannot deploy and concentrate forces larger than a company.
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“The defender can no longer rely on concentrated fortified areas. The architecture of modern defense is a decentralized and deep network of positions, including a large number of false positions and decoys.
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“The attacker's tactics are also changing — they rely on small tactical units that penetrate deep into the defender's ranks, pulling out ‘arrows’ (Ukrainians call them ‘pisyuny’).
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“The offensive is now based on the concentration of fire and weapons, and not on the concentration of forces and maneuver. This has led to the attacker advancing extremely slowly, since it relies on small units.
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“Any forward logistics centers or headquarters are turning into death traps due to their bulkiness.
The solution for logistics is decentralization, and for command — going underground and relying on wired and satellite communications.
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The solution for logistics is decentralization, and for command — going underground and relying on wired and satellite communications.
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“A revolutionary change is the change in the very architecture of the front line — now it is a 40-kilometer ‘death crater’, where being in the open for at least 15 minutes will lead to inevitable death.
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“A competent combination of forces in the context of combined arms combat - aviation, artillery and FPV masses together with ground forces - can lead to tactical successes.
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“Air superiority must now also be divided. Since this very superiority has little effect on the space of the ‘death crater’ of 40 km on the front - what is called the new space of small aviation.
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“The day is not far off when we will see the launch of full-fledged swarms of drones with fiber optics and controlled by combat AI. This will lead to the uselessness of a large number of operators.
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“This situation raises the question of the place of man in relation to the ‘man-machine’ fusion on the future battlefield.
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“Both experts emphasize that the IDF must literally make a leap in this area and introduce FPV drones into all army units. It is also necessary to break all bureaucratic restrictions that prevent this.
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“Carelessness and ignoring this technology will result in paying double the price. This is a revolutionary technology, not a local phenomenon.”
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