Ukraine risks being kneeling by the “shahed” drones. Experts ask for urgent actions to develop drones-intercepting
Russia accelerates the production and use of “shahed” attack drones, and Ukraine, in the absence of a coherent counter-measure system, risks seeing its vital infrastructure destroyed by piece. It is the severe warning launched by the electronic war expert and radio recognition, Sergei “Flash” Beskrestnov, in an analysis published on his Telegram channel.
Shahed/photo drone: Archive
“If we do not start to act now, our infrastructure, industry, strategic objectives will be done with the earth,” he wrote.
Urgent need for drone-interceptors
According to Beskrestnov, the key to defense is no longer in the classic anti-aircraft systems, but in the massive development of the intercepting drones. These can provide a flexible and cheaper response to the flexion attacks of the Iranian Kamikaze drones used by the Russian army.
In addition to production, priority also becomes the training of troops from all regions of Ukraine to use these modern systems. Time, the expert says, is the most dangerous factor: “the opportunity window closes quickly.”
A dangerous reality and a lesson for civilians
In a previous message, the same specialist recommended that civilians no longer film or watch the actions of mobile anti-aircraft defense groups. “The bullets drawn by our machine guns do not choose between the enemy and the curious window,” he warned.
At the same time, the activist Sergei Sternenko emphasized another weak point: the Ukrainian defense forces are not yet widely trained in the use of interception drones. He appealed to local administrations to urgently initiate training and endowment programs to recover the gap.
2030: The end of the classic soldier?
In a strategic reflection of the future, Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the center to combat misinformation, draws attention to another aspect: complete redefinition of the role of infantry. In a post on Telegram, he notes that the war, in its classic form, is about to become irrelevant:
“The soldier of the future will no longer be a fighter with a weapon in the tranche. He will be an operator, engineer, analyst. Until the 2030, the infantry will become the mind behind the fighter machine.”
According to Kovalenko, the autonomous systems, drones and intelligent sensors will take over the current soldiers: assault, recognition, evacuation of the wounded and even supply. On the front, the victory will no longer be decided by the number of soldiers, but by the reaction speed, the quality of the algorithms and the efficiency of the decision -making process.
The first exclusively robotic attacks
Ukraine has already discreetly entered a new military era. In 2024, near Lipți, in the north of the Kharkov region, the Ukrainian army made the first terrestrial attack in history in which no soldier was involved – only autonomous vehicles and FPV drones.
The international press, including The Telegraph, notes that the next stage of the war will be marked by “autonomous drones”, capable of cooperating with each other, with or without human involvement. And the battlefield is not limited to the air: follow terrestrial, maritime and possibly spatial robotic platforms.
While Russian drones cause real damage, irreversible in many cases, the solution is no longer an exclusively defensive. Ukraine needs an integrated and technological vision to stay in the game-and it starts with the massive production of drones, the preparation of the human for their operation and a conceptual leap: the transition from the man to the man-algorithm.
