Time to take a look at how the robots are going. Today’s topics:
— Invisibility cloaks to hide from drone thermal vision capabilities
— Internet deployed via frontline fiber-optic drones
— Inside Russia’s Rubicon drone group
— Rubicon’s new drone boat attacks
— Solar-powered ambush drones
— Details on Russia’s most popular fiber optic drone and its industrial localization - the Prince Vandal Novgorodsky
First off, the overall state of this technological war.
On July 25, the liberal nationalist Ukrainska Pravda released another interview with Kyryllo Veres, one of the most well-known drone specialists in the army. In Veres’ usual style, it was titled ‘if we don’t change, we’re fucked’.
– How would you assess our enemy in 2025? In what ways are we better or worse than Russia?
– They’re ahead of us probably in everything. As unpleasant as it is to say, probably in everything. They've learned how to scale everything faster.
– Yes . They have people and money.
– Everyone has money. We also have money — maybe not as much, but we do have it. But they have people. Everything else is secondary. They can afford to do things like that. And we... we can't. So the main priority — in the drone warfare line — is the destruction of personnel.
Drone operators are by far the most important targets for both sides.
And today I will be going into Russia’s most important drone human capital - the Rubicon group. Veres had high praise for it, as do all Ukrainian drone experts:
– How do you assess the work of the enemy's drone unit?
– The work of the Rubicon unit? Top-level. It’s basically like their version of our Drone Line [I wrote about it here - EIU].
– And how are they?
– Well, wherever they are… let’s just say, wherever they’re deployed, wherever they operate, I don’t envy our units there. They’ve got everything.
