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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Prior to nationalism, I doubt Ukrainians cared.
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    A new relatively cheap American weapon may be a game changer in the Russo-Ukraine war. The Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE)- it is a 4-tubed missile launcher that can be bolted onto anything. Like a pickup truck or building.

    New American ‘VAMPIRE’ Weapon Could Crush Putin’s War (yahoo.com)
    The Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE) is a portable kit that can be installed on most vehicles with a cargo bed for launching the advanced precision kill weapons system (APKWS) or other laser-guided munitions.
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    Ukraine is eager to get systems that can shoot down Russian, and potentially Iranian, drones. The most recent U.S. aid package, $3 billion aimed at supplying current material and building long-term capacity, features a new weapon: the Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE). The confusingly named system is not the first or most capable air defense system the Biden administration has supplied to Ukraine, but its unique features and price point put it on the frontier of the evolving fight against small drones.




    The Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE) is a portable kit that can be installed on most vehicles with a cargo bed for launching the advanced precision kill weapons system (APKWS) or other laser-guided munitions.

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    Compared to massive air defense systems like an S-400 or MIM-104 Patriot, the VAMPIRE looks unassuming. It’s just a four-barrel rocket launcher with a small sensor package on the back of a truck. It’s not exactly hi-tech either: the system fires a missile that’s been produced for a decade and its guidance is traditional. Its advantage, however, is in its modest size and price tag.


    Where the VAMPIRE might change the game for the Ukrainians, and for the future of drone warfare, is the low cost. For traditional air defense, which was designed to take down airplanes and helicopters, small drones can present a costly dilemma. Depending on the system, the missile that shoots down the drone could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, much more than the drone itself. Advanced drones also cost millions, but smaller ones can cost a few hundred dollars. Shorter-ranged systems are cheaper but spreading them thin to defeat drones could reduce their ability to engage helicopters and jets. As drones become cheaper and more available, militaries are looking for ways to shoot them down that don’t break the bank.

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    Ukraine Touts Role of U.S. HARM Missiles in Strikes on Russian Defenses

    Ukraine's Air Force says it's successfully using a U.S.-provided radar-targeting missile system to cut through Russian air defenses in carrying out strikes on the invading military.


    Speaking on a national broadcast, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat highlighted what he called the service branch's effective use of the high-speed, anti-radiation missile (HARM) against Russia. The weapon is designed to destroy radar-quipped air defense systems. .


    Developed in the 1980s, the air-to-surface tactical missile is "designed to seek and destroy enemy radar-equipped air defense systems" and works by homing in on enemy radar, according to a U.S. Air Force fact sheet.


    Ihnat said that "more than one such air defense system has been destroyed by these missiles," allowing the Ukrainian Air Force's strike planes, including the Su-25 attack aircraft and Su-24M bombers, to blitz Russian forces.
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    What Ukraine drone videos tell us about the future of war


    WE CAN LEARN SO MUCH about where warfare is going by watching drone videos from Ukraine.


    There are countless examples of these videos, shot from both small drones that can be bought online and larger ones made solely for military use, all with similar themes: background techno music overshadowing the lethal voyeurism, confusion as you try to pinpoint the unwitting soldier below, the release of the explosive, the impact, the blast, the casualty-producing effects of shrapnel and metal and dirt, and then, eventually, the high-definition production of that casualty slumped on the ground—another added to the rolls of the tens of thousands of dead and wounded Russian and Ukrainian soldiers in a six-month-old war that is increasingly likely to last much longer than that.




    There is, however, much more to unpack from what you can see on your screen. It doesn’t necessarily matter whether a drone kills or wounds; its mere presence over the battlefield and what it suggests to a soldier is terrifying—that the enemy can see you and thus, can potentially kill you. And there are a lot of drones flying over Ukraine. Meanwhile, the videos themselves—drone or otherwise—often shot from the Ukrainian perspective and captioned in English, help fuel popular support for Kyiv and sow doubt about Russian capabilities.

    So, the U.S. military is paying close attention.

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    “I have ground commanders look at me and say the thing they are most concerned about are drones flying above them,” said Air Force Lt. Gen. Clinton Hinote, the service’s deputy chief of staff, on Tuesday. “That was unexpected for me to have the commander of one of our storied ground divisions say that to me. That’s a really sobering thing. People are waking up to it. We will adapt. We will get there.”

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    Notably, the Russian military showed just how powerful this combination was on July 11, 2014, when it used multiple drones to target a column of Ukrainian soldiers near Luhansk with rocket fire. “Within three minutes, the Russian forces destroyed nearly two battalions and decimated the 79th Airmobile Brigade,” a U.S. Army officer wrote, summarizing the incident.
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