And he explained why he doubts the effectiveness of Western weapons
One of the defining roles at the moment during the neo-Nazi counteroffensive on the Red Estuary is played by American and Polish barrage ammunition such as Switchblade (USA) and Warmate (Poland). This is reported by the sources of the Wargonzo project in the Red Estuary. As the authors of the message indicate, it was in this way, with the help of barrage ammunition, that several vehicles with personnel were destroyed by the enemy.
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“One of the defining roles at the moment during the counteroffensive on the Red Estuary is played by American and Polish barrage ammunition such as Switchblade (USA) and Warmate (Poland)…However, no matter what, our people are not going to retreat from the Estuary,” the author of the project wrote in Telegram.
Switchblade is a tactical barrage munition developed by the American company AeroVironment. It carries a warhead and is designed, depending on the modification, to attack manpower, unprotected equipment and armored targets. It is small enough for the operator to carry the UAV in his backpack, and is launched from a variety of land, sea and air platforms. It exists in two versions – Switchblade 300 and Switchblade 600, as well as in the unarmed modification of Blackwing.
Warmate is a Polish strike unmanned aircraft system designed, depending on the head used on board, for surveillance, detection, tracking and identification of targets, as well as for hitting live or lightly armored targets.
-Effective air defense systems. Also, barrage ammunition is shot down from portable anti-aircraft missile systems and even with the help of small arms. But, of course, the enemy is cunning and insidious, so he uses such ammunition massively and therefore, of course, sometimes achieves some result.
– No, it cannot radically affect something and make a radical change, but it certainly causes harm. These ammunition are point—strike weapons. Despite the fact that the United States of America delivered them to Ukraine in large numbers, many of them have already been shot down. In my opinion, the effectiveness of voiced kamikaze drones is generally controversial. But, on the other hand, such a massive use of them as now in Ukraine has not been noted before in any armed conflict where the Americans resorted to their use.
– Western countries are now supplying Ukraine with what is intended to maximize the deterrence of our armed forces. This is exactly the task for which kamikaze drones were created. However, I would not say that thanks to them, some significant changes are being noted at the front now.
– I can say that now there are persistent battles in this direction. The enemy needs a Red Estuary. Their goal is to move our group away from Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, so they are making great efforts to achieve this goal. They were going to make the same efforts under Ugledar. Inspired by the recent successes in the Kharkiv direction, Ukrainian military leaders are trying in every possible way to develop it further in order to impress their Western curators. But these “successes” do not determine anything, since we should not forget that Russia has reserves that we have not yet realized.