The UAV revolution has turned the whole military business upside down. At least in the tactical zone FPV drones almost already dominate the rest of the weapons, on par with artillery. The rest of the world is asleep for now, at least the military. There is no visible change in the life of armies due to this unanticipated revolution. At least not publicly.
But here comes the news: in Sudan there was an attempted assassination attempt on the Commander-in-Chief of the country’s Armed Forces, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, using kamikaze UAVs. The attack took place during a military graduation ceremony in the Red Sea province in eastern Sudan. Five people died and several were wounded.
But the country’s dictator, Al Burhan, remained unharmed. It is reported that air defense forces allegedly intercepted two more drones heading toward the ceremony site. Sudanese authorities suspect a rival gang with the unpretentious name “Rapid Reaction Force.”
I guess the dictator happily escaped death due to the inexperience of the drone operator and the poor organization of the assassination attempt. I expected that in the next year FPV as an ideal weapon of covert warfare will be quickly adopted by drug traffickers, mobsters and revolutionaries of all stripes. The low cost, absolute availability and simplicity of the idea should have played its role.
We should have already seen reports of kamikaze drones being used in the most dangerous places on Earth. But so far, they are hardly in the news. You could say that the assassination attempt on Al-Burhan is one of the first swallows.
Much here depends on the presence of an experienced operator, who gained skills in a real long war and used drones by the dozens per month. So far there are such only in Russia and Ukraine. But they except for the wounded are all at the front.
I can easily imagine that at the end of the SWO there will be many high professional operators who suddenly felt “unclaimed”. And going to hire tribal chiefs, elders, dictators, barons and wholesalers is not such a stupid idea at all if one is bored and not paid well back home.
Perhaps the end of the NWO will bring many surprises to the world.
