In life, and especially in war, experience is a degree. A good demonstration has been what happened recently with some military exercises held in Sweden.
The maneuvers were based on the mock deployment by an unidentified country of troops along the border with Swedenor what is the same, on the eastern border of NATO.
Furthermore, they simulated power outages and food shortages in the swedish island of gotlandwhich is essential from a strategic point of view due to its location on the Baltic Sea.
As reported by the AP news agency, during the exercises, Ukrainian drone pilots (who have acquired great experience in it throughout these more than four years of armed conflict against Russian forces) They defeated the Swedish troops.
The AP reporter who witnessed the military maneuvers collected the testimony of a 24-year-old Ukrainian soldier who said that “They had to stop training up to three times.”
“In real life they would have died”
Specifically, the interruptions The exercises were carried out so that the Swedish fighters could analyze where they were going wrong and understand the reason why “in real life they would have died.
According to the aforementioned news agency, another Ukrainian drone pilot highlighted that, despite the fact that the swedish troops They have potential, They must improve their drones and tactics and gain a deeper understanding of drone warfare.
Regarding the results of this simulation, the Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces, Michael Claessonrecognized that the Western troops must ‘quickly learn’ to conduct drone operations and also to defend against them. Claesson stressed that the “fastest way” to do this is to listen to the Ukrainian drone pilots themselves.
