Ukraine: Gen. Tricarico, ‘very important role of drones, but not decisive on the outcome of the war’

“The drones in the hands of the Ukrainians can have an absolutely important role in the war scenario. If they still have a central and peripheral command and control and training structure, which can enable them to use this armament, it is clear that it is systems that are very useful in these contexts “. Thus at Adnkronos General Leonardo Tricarico, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, on the role that drones can play in Russia’s war on Ukraine. Ukrainians are already using drones supplied by Turkey, while the United States has announced the dispatch of the ‘Switchblade’, the so-called ‘kamikaze drone’. “These drones – explains Tricarico – can also play a very important role in an urban guerrilla scenario. Each drone has a ground segment for piloting and management, it allows you to see, thanks to their optical apparatus, the battlefield and thanks to the guidance system you can point directly at the target, which can also be, say, a handpiece of Chechens. The most difficult thing for drones is the analysis of the data, not so much, therefore, to make it fly and hit, as to understand what is underneath, because especially in these contexts it is difficult to ‘discriminate’ what is moving. below, and for this it takes a great deal of experience, it takes years and it is difficult “.” We in Italy – underlines General Tricarico – know something, because we have been using drones for about 18 years, and now we have fabulous analysts, who observing the screen they are able to deduce things that no one would imagine. The drone builders, in any case, have now multiplied indefinitely, there are an infinity of them “. The drones, concludes the general, “cannot, however, be decisive for the final outcome of the hostilities between Russians and Ukrainians. There is nothing that can be defined as decisive with respect to the final outcome. If not the nuclear weapon”.