Les rebelles Houthis 🇾🇪 poursuivent leur offensive et s'emparent du stratégique détroit de Bab El Mandeb
La perte de l'Ile de Perim (base émiratie stratégique sur le détroit) est un bouleversement capital pour l'économie mondiale. Carte de @Seb_Masson_
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Unmanned Ground Vehicles are TRASH. They are slow, get jammed and bombed all the time.
So why do #Rubizh and other Ukrainian units constantly make fundraisers for them? Are we stupid?
To understand why UGVs are in some much demand, imagine yourself as an officer in Ukrainian army. You've got a task - evacuate a wounded soldier in the killzone. Killzone will be under near CONSTANT monitoring of Russian drone pilots who are just salivating to kill you. This task leaves you with two choices:
Send a few soldiers to evacuate your wounded guy.
Or send a UGV.
UGVs are notoriously unreliable, but so are humans. And given that the risks in the killzone are the same for both robots and humans, it makes a lot more sense to risk robots rather then your guys. Better lose a bunch of UGVs than one soldier.
It takes a few weeks to make a UGV from scratch. It takes 25+ years to make a fit soldier from scratch.
@intlintelcore@SavchenkoReview This is true, and also note that the Ruhr area still produced massive amounts of armaments despite the relentless strategic bombing, until it was physically taken by the Allies.
@StefanFrancisci In 2026 Fidesz and MHM got 33% of the vote in Budapest. In the 2024 EP elections they stood at 37%. And in 2022 they got 45% of the vote.