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Shkruar nga Luca Bianco
The Russians have learned to interfere with the GPS system that guides American and European missiles, forcing them to miss their target, or detonating the explosive charge while still in flight.
In this troubled time we are living in, there is no country that "values" war more than China. For years, the People's Liberation Army has experienced a significant increase in funding from leader Xi Jinping. But if there's one thing he's always lacked, it's experience on the battlefield.
Because the last war waged by the former heavenly empire was the small conflict on the Mekong River, against the Vietnamese "cousins" in 1979. Since then, there have been many exercises, symbolic displays of force, especially in the China Sea, but nothing more.
While the Americans have a much greater experience: two wars in the Persian Gulf, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and in Afghanistan, just to mention the most important ones. Therefore, the conflict in Ukraine, where Western-made equipment and weapons are being used, gives the opportunity to the Chinese generals - thanks to the information they have transmitted to them from their Russian friends - to create an idea, to study in detail the means of the opponents.
So they steal the war technology of those who in the future, starting from a hypothetical clash over Taiwan, could become their enemies. The double advantage is that all this looting is virtually costless. Not a single Chinese soldier has died to date to obtain this precious information.
A clear idea of this problem is given by a recent investigation by the American "Wall Street Journal", which seems to want to warn the authorities there, but also the next president, whoever he may be: in Ukraine, the United States The United States and NATO are jeopardizing their technological superiority - and therefore their deterrent mechanism - in the face of the so-called "Axis of Resistance", directed by Moscow and Beijing.
This investigation is also echoed in the last statement of the Italian Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, during a report in parliament. Ukrainian and Western military sources consulted by economic newspaper "Stars and Stripes" agree with this concern: in Ukraine, the advantage provided to Kiev's armed forces by sending weapons and technology from the West is gradually being narrowed by Vladimir Putin's forces, as the latter are adapting to enemy systems, thanks to their formidable electronic warfare capabilities.
The Russians have learned to interfere with the GPS system that guides American and European missiles, forcing them to miss their target, or detonating the explosive charge while still in flight.
This happened, for example, in mid-2023, when Ukrainian generals began to give up M982 Excaliburs sent by Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States and the United Kingdom, and possibly also Italy.
We are talking about artillery shells produced by the American company Raytheon and the British company Bae Systems, specialized to cause maximum damage to the target with the lowest possible cost in terms of side effects.
They are 155 millimeter caliber shells, capable of hitting targets up to 40 kilometers away with a very high accuracy, which has been improved over the years of use on the streets of Baghdad, Kirkuk, Fallujah, Mosul by the US Army.
Other Western weapons have suffered the same fate. Russian electronic countermeasures have dramatically reduced the accuracy of guided missiles launched by the US Himars missile system.
So the same weapons systems - rocket launchers designed in the mid-1990s by Lockheed Martin, and widely used by US forces in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq - had suddenly lost the strategic advantage that was created in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict during the summer of 2022, when the first counterattack of the Ukrainian army took place.
These systems are used by the Americans but also by Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, and will soon be available in the arsenals of Sweden, the Philippines, Taiwan and even Italy (starting in 2027 ).
And it is not at all encouraging for the military leaders of these countries to discover that the potential enemy of the future already knows all the tricks of how these units can be produced that cost 20 million dollars each. Now the widespread fear among Ukrainian military leaders is that the Russians will be able to adapt to attacks by even deadlier Western military weapons.
From US ATACAMS ballistic missiles to Storm Shadow cruise missiles produced by MBDA, the consortium created by France, Italy and Great Britain. The latter destroyed enemy airfields, command centers and infrastructure in occupied Crimea within a few months.
Not to mention the formidable S-400 batteries, the pride symbol of the Russian military in this conflict. Russia's capabilities to develop successful electronic countermeasures, and as reported by several independent Western and non-Western media investigations to share them with the People's Republic of China's secret service and military, pose a major strategic problem for the United States. The United States and its allies.
In fact, it is no secret that the backbone of the military doctrines developed by NATO countries since the end of the Cold War has been based on one main assumption: cost reduction, saving the number of troops, tanks and artillery, and focus primarily on quality.
So more precision than quantity. In strategic bombing, instead of deploying troops on the ground. The problem now is that the enemy to be fought is no longer Saddam Hussein's army or the Taliban militias in Afghanistan. Now on the other side, there are powerful big military forces like Russia and China. The more time passes, the more Moscow and Beijing know how our Western weapons work./ Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Huffington Post Italia"
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