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PREVIEW: Drones in comparison to artillery. #Ukraine: Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: Drones in comparison to artillery. #Ukraine: Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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0:00.0

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0:07.4

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0:12.3

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0:30.5

This is John Bachelor, Conversation with Jeff McCawson,

0:34.0

Colonel Jeff McCawson, the United States Army retired CBS news about the battlefield,

0:38.8

about drones versus artillery. Jeff speaks of a new drone on the battlefield called the

0:45.7

Lancet, used by the Russians. It's very cheap, $35,000, and it has an opportunity to

0:52.7

loiter over the battlefield with 5kg warhead and then direct its fire at a tank or

1:00.5

armored vehicle, proving effective because there are many of them, and so far the Ukrainians have

1:07.3

not found an adequate block. However, Jeff makes the point that artillery is a completely different

1:13.2

battlefield weapon. He emphasizes the word mass. Here's Jeff.

1:18.4

No, it's not a vehicle statement at all because the drone can be used for strike,

1:22.0

a so-called kamikaze drone, but one of the most effective use of an artillery's perspective

1:26.9

for a drone is observation, because it can loiter over the battlefield with a camera and help

1:31.6

you pinpoint targets, and I've even seen weapons we've had in past where you could laser designate

1:37.0

a target using a drone or using a helicopter, and then you'd have a homing device on the artillery

1:42.5

shell to make it a smart shell to home it right in on target. But on the one hand,

1:47.6

drones provide that kind of observation. Their advantage, as I would dare say, is, first of all,

1:51.6

they can loiter over the battlefield. This landset drone that the Russians are using. It only costs

1:56.4

about 35,000 dollars per copy, relatively cheap. It has about a 5kg warhead with the newest and

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