On October 4, local time, the American media reported a special piece of news: a battle broke out between Russian cavalry and Ukrainian troops. Under the drone's downsizing attack, this group of Russian cavalry was completely annihilated.
According to American media The Defense BlogAccording to reports, this group of Russian cavalry soldiers came from the Special Operations Forces of the 51st Army's 9th Brigade. Two or three months ago, the Russian military was detected by U.S. satellites to train cavalry in the Donetsk region, and images of Russian cavalry soldiers shooting and penetrating were captured by satellites.
The Russian army's cavalry special operations adopt the "double cavalry assault" mode, that is, two people and one horse form a combat team. The soldiers in front are responsible for controlling the horses, and the soldiers in the back shoot with guns. This mode can ensure firepower output and assault speed, and can catch the enemy by surprise on the battlefield.
People's memory of cavalry is still in World War II. At that time, the Polish army used cavalry to confront German tanks, and the Japanese army used cavalry to fight fiercely with Soviet tanks in Nomenkan, etc. Cavalry played a role in different battlefields, but even in That era has also highlighted the weakness of cavalry's insufficient firepower and too large targets.
Eighty years have passed in the blink of an eye, and cavalry has almost no ability to survive in modern battlefields. In an era when the sky is full of drones, cavalry has become the most prominent and conspicuous target. The Russian-Ukrainian battlefield is a plain area, and the cavalry has no barrier at all to cover the assault. The drone was entirely a surrender to the cavalry.
The Russian army's cavalry special operations concept is to create an asymmetric tactic, that is, to use cavalry to attack Ukraine's rear bases. Because the Ukrainian army's electronic jamming equipment is ineffective against the cavalry, the cavalry can launch a fatal assault on the Ukrainian army as long as it can pass through the jungle area. War horses have good eyesight at night. If they can ride horses to attack Ukrainian army positions at night, they can achieve unexpected results.
From the viewpoint of the Russian military's operational philosophy, this assault tactic has no problem, the problem is that the enemy is also constantly adjusting the tactics, the satellite can detect larger horse, as long as the satellite with the drone to intercept the blockade, it is a disaster for the cavalry. Even at night, night vision and thermal imaging can leave the horse untouched. This tactic was adopted by Ukraine, which damaged the Russian cavalry in the first war.
According to US media reports, a group of Russian cavalry was preparing to launch a sneak attack, but was attacked by a Ukrainian suicide drone. This group of Russian cavalry was eliminated, and Ukrainian drones took photos of the Russian cavalry before they were killed. In the picture, this group of cavalry was photographed by a drone. The cavalry in front seemed to have seen the Ukrainian drone and were controlling the horses. Don't panic. The soldiers behind were coming with guns for reinforcements.
From a drone perspective, There is only one result of this kind of picture, and that is to be killed by a drone.The encounter with drones in this wide area means death, the drone stands high with the perspective of God, even if the horse runs too fast and the drone can not run. The Russian cavalry's only way is to shoot down the drone, but the FPV drone is very fast, there is no chance at all to be shot.
This was destined to be a terrible battle, with drones quickly flying to the cavalry and dropping bombs, and the cavalry was killed together with the horses. Ukrainian FPV drone returned the last photo, these cavalry who were preparing to launch an assault were killed before the task was completed. Their death also marked the failure of the Russian cavalry's assault mission.
After this battle, the Ukrainian army will increase the force of the anti-Russian cavalry, and there will be no less weather reconnaissance and strikes with satellites with drones. The Russian cavalry troops hard trained in the Donetsk region may be discontinued because of the battle. The fact turns out that the Russian military hopes to break the information blockade with traditional tactics and the idea of winning the battlefield through an assault strategy is not very realistic.
So does this battle prove that cavalry is completely useless in modern warfare?
It can be assured that the cavalry has not completely lost its function, the key to the problem is how to use the cavalry. Modern warfare with cavalry assault is equivalent to slaughter, with cavalry reconnaissance and intelligence transmission is still useful. After the failure of electronic information combat equipment, the cavalry can be great; in the case of rainy raids at night, the cavalry can kill the fourth; after a nuclear bomb, the cavalry can quickly hit the enemy's land. The nuclear cavalry.。
The same tactic, in what circumstances to use, in what way to release its power is understandable. The Russian military this time obviously did not do this, the cavalry when the attack in the sky less drone cooperation, should be used drone in advance for the cavalry to clear the obstacles to the front, to provide the cavalry with a broad perspective.
The Russian troops this time cavalry assault operation does not mean that the Russian troops no longer have weapons available, only to enable the cavalry to launch the assault. This should be an experiment by the Russian army to use traditional tactics to crack information warfare and electronic warfareAlthough this battle ended in failure, it also summed up experience from this point of view, this failure is not useless.