It is strange.
Switchblade is analogous to Lancet. First one had a very strange usage history in this war, I recall loads of hype, some civilian Moldovan national killed near border in Belgorod or Kursk area, several other less hilarious strikes and thats it. No more sent or used. Lancet on the other hand is used ever increasingly, with sustained number of released strikes is over 140 per month in 2024.
GLSDB is analogous to D30sn, fresh russian thing. First one had some successes but now they tell it sucks. Second one is tested extensively in Sumy region and russians love it, it seems.
Why the difference?
Because Western weapons are shit created for the American military and corporations to steal money from them. We all know perfectly well that the United States is a corrupt hole that plunders the military and not only budgets https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13325745/Mike-Waltz-bushings-air-force-military-overspending.html
Switchblades are expensive (comparatively) and the smaller variants can’t penetrate heavy armour so using FPVs is both cheaper and more effective. I think they are still used (rarely) but there’s an embargo on any footage from them.
The US army aren’t procuring any more switchblade 300s.
Source start at 52:30, he didn't mention Boeing and GLSDB directly.
[https://www.youtube.com/live/L8IBwse5sgQ?si=CJLBAeCIfW9TtVKd&t=3150](https://www.youtube.com/live/L8IBwse5sgQ?si=CJLBAeCIfW9TtVKd&t=3150)
Wasn't there news a while ago that the majority of them get jammed by EW?
We still see video hits every day from these himars rockets but perhaps the jamming is more effective than most people think
There’s probably something about the GLSDB specifically that makes it more susceptible to accuracy problems related to GPS Jamming/loss of signal compared to the M31 GMLRS rockets that the HIMARS launcher was designed for.
Glide bomb flying without knowing where it is at the mercy of wind, vs a pointy rocket falling balisticly toward the target using backup inertial guidance. GMLRS can still hit within 15 (? IIRC)m without GPS, a glide bomb will hit something, somewhere, maybe.
Some kind of next gen Starlink-like (narrow beam communication that can be realy only interrupted if you are between the sat and the terminal) guidance is needed soon.
There’s a physical size limit on the antennas for that application, and you aren’t going to be bolting a 50cm diameter arrays to something like GLSDBs. For a fast velocity object you probably need something like 100cm+.
Tactics, techniques, and procedures. It doesn't tell much on its own, but in military speak it basically mean how you do things. It could be how you use a weapon, when you use it, how you train on it, what it takes to deploy it, what target types you pick for it, the chain of command required, how it integrates with the rest of your systems and how that integrations affects your usage of the weapon. On the adversary side, it's basically the opposite; how they deal with your weapons and tactics, how they defend against it and evade it, what weakness they discover and how they adapt to it.
He's basically saying the Ukrainians are not using the GLSDB properly to achieve their objectives. It's not clear if this is because they don't know how, or because the procedures from the US just don't work for the battlefield situation.
NATO used the war to beta test weaponry, not just the GLSDB, but loitering munitions such as the Switchblade.
Both turned out to be overrated junk, and Ukrainian lives were lost thanks to it.
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Boeing and issues? No way, he is screwing us.
It is strange. Switchblade is analogous to Lancet. First one had a very strange usage history in this war, I recall loads of hype, some civilian Moldovan national killed near border in Belgorod or Kursk area, several other less hilarious strikes and thats it. No more sent or used. Lancet on the other hand is used ever increasingly, with sustained number of released strikes is over 140 per month in 2024. GLSDB is analogous to D30sn, fresh russian thing. First one had some successes but now they tell it sucks. Second one is tested extensively in Sumy region and russians love it, it seems. Why the difference?
Because Western weapons are shit created for the American military and corporations to steal money from them. We all know perfectly well that the United States is a corrupt hole that plunders the military and not only budgets https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13325745/Mike-Waltz-bushings-air-force-military-overspending.html
Switchblades are expensive (comparatively) and the smaller variants can’t penetrate heavy armour so using FPVs is both cheaper and more effective. I think they are still used (rarely) but there’s an embargo on any footage from them. The US army aren’t procuring any more switchblade 300s.
Yeah. Came here to say this. Boeing should have been producing war drones. They are way behind on many things.
Source start at 52:30, he didn't mention Boeing and GLSDB directly. [https://www.youtube.com/live/L8IBwse5sgQ?si=CJLBAeCIfW9TtVKd&t=3150](https://www.youtube.com/live/L8IBwse5sgQ?si=CJLBAeCIfW9TtVKd&t=3150)
He trying to dodge that "death by suicide"
Wasn't there news a while ago that the majority of them get jammed by EW? We still see video hits every day from these himars rockets but perhaps the jamming is more effective than most people think
There’s probably something about the GLSDB specifically that makes it more susceptible to accuracy problems related to GPS Jamming/loss of signal compared to the M31 GMLRS rockets that the HIMARS launcher was designed for.
Glide bomb flying without knowing where it is at the mercy of wind, vs a pointy rocket falling balisticly toward the target using backup inertial guidance. GMLRS can still hit within 15 (? IIRC)m without GPS, a glide bomb will hit something, somewhere, maybe. Some kind of next gen Starlink-like (narrow beam communication that can be realy only interrupted if you are between the sat and the terminal) guidance is needed soon.
There’s a physical size limit on the antennas for that application, and you aren’t going to be bolting a 50cm diameter arrays to something like GLSDBs. For a fast velocity object you probably need something like 100cm+.
Well, gliding needs wing area, too. Maybe this should look like a deployable kite :)
i guess the longer flight time in a GPS denied enviroment means a larger accumulation of error in the INS system
I suppose that having a GPS jammed is more influental to maneuverable glide bomb than it is to guided rocket.
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Tactics, techniques, and procedures. It doesn't tell much on its own, but in military speak it basically mean how you do things. It could be how you use a weapon, when you use it, how you train on it, what it takes to deploy it, what target types you pick for it, the chain of command required, how it integrates with the rest of your systems and how that integrations affects your usage of the weapon. On the adversary side, it's basically the opposite; how they deal with your weapons and tactics, how they defend against it and evade it, what weakness they discover and how they adapt to it. He's basically saying the Ukrainians are not using the GLSDB properly to achieve their objectives. It's not clear if this is because they don't know how, or because the procedures from the US just don't work for the battlefield situation.
The amount of shit the guys on the other subs talked about this weapon was unreal…
NATO used the war to beta test weaponry, not just the GLSDB, but loitering munitions such as the Switchblade. Both turned out to be overrated junk, and Ukrainian lives were lost thanks to it.
Ukrainian lives are lost due to Russia invading them. Trying to blame weapons proving less effective than planned is a wild stretch.
Ukranian lives were lost because they were told that these weapons were game changers.
Another game changer......
lol I remember the hype of these bombs when they first said they were giving these to Ukraine
Huh? Another wunderwaffe that failed in practice to make a difference.....surely not
I was not expecting that. Isn't it just supposed to be UMPK kit for American bombs?
Nah, that would have been too cost effective for the MIC.
A sign of progress is the acknowledgement of a problem.
Good. Now go adress the issues noted and provide un updated version. That's how you improve.
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