In April 2024, Ukraine launched an attack hundreds of miles into Russian territory that took out a Russian radar system. The Ukrainian drones had struck a facility housing a 29B6 Container Radar, a Russian early warning system designed to detect incoming threats from thousands of miles away, including long-range ballistic missiles.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Peter Zeihan shares his concern about Ukraine’s increasing use of drone assaults on Russian container radars and how it will affect war strategy.
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Excerpted from Peter’s May 30 “Zeihan on Geopolitics” newsletter:
We’re looking at the Ukraine war and the increase of drone assaults on Russia. Specifically, we’ll be looking at the attacks on container radars used for aircraft and ballistic missile detection.
Ukraine is expecting shipments of some Western F-16s, so taking out these container radars could alter the strategic perceptions in Moscow and Washington. When we’re talking about ballistic missile response times, even seconds could alter the outcome… so if these radars go down, who knows what might happen.
All of the new technologies entering the battlefield are necessitating a reevaluation of strategic calculations across all fronts. From shifting away from the mutually assured destruction paradigm, to destabilizing the delicate balance of power, we’re heading towards a new reality.