#Ukraine: The drone war. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
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#Ukraine: The drone war. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukrainian-drone-hits-russias-third-biggest-refinery-damage-not-critical/ar-BB1kXCbu
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| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:03.0 | a series of the world. I'm John Bachelor with Colonel Jeff McCausen, |
| 0:07.5 | CBS News to Ukraine. The information we have from the front is |
| 0:12.0 | Fogg of war but it appears to be trading drone strikes against infrastructure. |
| 0:17.5 | Yakaterina Berg, deep in Russia, the third largest refinery deep in Russia, both hit by drone attacks in these last |
| 0:26.0 | hours. |
| 0:27.0 | At the same time, drone attack or missile attack at an electricity generating plant in the |
| 0:31.5 | west of Ukraine. So it's late winter, early |
| 0:35.8 | spring. The offensive may or may not be on. Russia may or may not be recruiting |
| 0:41.0 | hundreds of thousands, but the drone war will continue and so will |
| 0:45.5 | the resistance. |
| 0:46.5 | Jeff, drones have taken the battlefield and turned it into something three-dimensional and I'm guessing that all |
| 0:55.5 | armies are learning from this are you learning from it Jeff has this changed your |
| 0:59.7 | understanding of the |
| 1:03.0 | understanding of offense and defense. It has really to a degree that the battlefield now is much more transparent and you can be struck almost immediately if you are observed. |
| 1:10.0 | The flooding of the battle zone with drones that can observe movement and our company either by suicide drones that can then immediately strike make maneuver that much more difficult and I think lend themselves more to a static |
| 1:24.6 | battlefield like we're seeing right now. |
| 1:27.1 | But then furthermore, for the Ukrainians, by their ability now to create longer range drones, |
| 1:31.8 | these ticker drones were up to 1,200 kilometers or about 700 miles |
| 1:36.0 | to conduct these ticker strikes, allow them to reach out and touch targets in Russia at a great distance. |
| 1:42.1 | Not unlike we would do long-range bombing campaigns |
| 1:44.6 | if you will during World War II without of course putting any particular |
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