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Published · transcript-backedChristopher Kirchhoff: belief
30 Oct 2024 Conversations with Tyler Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War
“I think drones are primarily offensive dominant in the sense that there are, right now, almost 300 companies in Ukraine that have faster innovation cycles at this moment than all of the Western military companies fielding drones.”
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- Christopher Kirchhoff
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- 30 Oct 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Some of the drones already are not working that well, like the Turkish drones seem less powerful than a few years ago. What is one possible way that defense against drones might catch up? Well, that’s, right now, a very open question. I think drones are primarily offensive dominant in the sense that there are, right now, almost 300 companies in Ukraine that have faster innovation cycles at this moment than all of the Western military companies fielding drones. If you go to the front lines today in Ukraine — I got a chance to visit there in October with my co-author, Raj Shah — you’ll find predominantly Ukrainian drones operating. The reason why is that they’re literally able to go back to garage shops all over the country and overnight change the algorithms in the drone to respond to rapidly evolving Russian electronic warfare tactics that change from day to day. That’s the counter-jamming, in part.…
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