Forbes: Ukrainian Forces Eliminate One Of Russia's Key Military Advantages

Russian commanders had to acknowledge this reality.

KAB guided glide bombs were a "miracle weapon" for the Russians, and the Ukrainians "practically had no countermeasures." Gradually, the situation changed, and now it is obvious that the "golden era" of these ammunition has passed, as the Ukrainians have learned to counteract them. The Forbes article reads.

Until recently, the Russian Armed Forces skillfully used the following tactics — first gliding bombs fell on the Ukrainian defense, and when the dust dissipated, Russian infantry attacked the surviving Ukrainians. The "first bomb, next assault" tactic helped the Russians capture the fortress city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, and then move close to the city of Pokrovsk.

Gradually, imperceptibly for many, the situation has changed. Ukrainian radio jammers have become so effective and numerous that they "saturate the front line" and glide bombs cannot communicate with a group of GLONASS satellites that lose to American satellites. Without a stable course correction connection, gliding bombs tend to budge and explode somewhere in the fields.

“All important goals are guaranteed to be covered [by electronic wrestling]. It may take eight or even 16 glide bombs to reliably hit one target, "the Russian Fighterbomber telegram channel quoted the publication as saying.

And although gliding bombs are inexpensive for high-precision ammunition — each costs about $25,000 — the jets that launch them are more expensive, which means that now, to hit one target, you need several aircraft that the Russian Federation cannot risk.

The intense Ukrainian jamming has also brought many Russian drones to a halt, forcing desperate Russian operators to switch to more expensive fiber-optic drones that send and receive signals via long, thin cables rather than radio.

Of course, the Russians are also jamming, but Russian jamming does not have the same impact as the Ukrainian one. Many Russian "jammers" are made poorly and inefficiently.

Equally important, the best Ukrainian munitions — American Joint Direct Attack Munition glide bombs and French Hammer glide bombs — include GPS guidance, but also have redundant inertial navigation systems, or INS, which are fully autonomous and therefore impervious to obstacles.

“By flooding the airwaves with radio noise that bothers them less than Russians, the Ukrainians may have erased one of Russia's main advantages on the battlefield. "It's time for Russian commanders to recognize this reality. The future belongs to the autonomous INS," the publication writes.

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