{"id":224061,"date":"2022-11-21T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=224061"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:06:31","slug":"western-allies-look-to-ukraine-as-a-testing-ground-for-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/11\/western-allies-look-to-ukraine-as-a-testing-ground-for-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Allies Look to Ukraine as a Testing Ground for Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though the battle for Ukraine remains largely a grinding artillery war, new advances in technology and training there are being closely monitored for the ways they are starting to shape combat.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Soldiers with Ukraine\u2019s Carpathian Sich Battalion reviewing drone footage below the front line in May. Credit: Lynsey Addario for The New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n

15 Nov 2022 – <\/em>Three months ago, as Ukrainian troops were struggling to advance<\/a> against Russian forces in the south, the military\u2019s headquarters in Kyiv quietly deployed a valuable new weapon to the battlefield.<\/p>\n

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It was not a rocket launcher, cannon or another kind of heavy arms from Western allies. Instead, it was a real-time information system known as Delta \u2014 an online network that military troops, civilian officials and even vetted bystanders could use to track and share desperately needed details about Russian forces.<\/div>\n
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The software, developed in coordination with NATO, had barely been tested in battle.<\/div>\n
But as they moved across the Kherson region in a major counteroffensive, Ukraine\u2019s forces employed Delta, as well as powerful weaponry supplied by the West, to push the Russians out of towns and villages they had occupied for months.<\/div>\n
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The big payoff came on Friday with the retreat of Russian forces from Kherson City<\/a> \u2014 a major prize in the nearly nine-month war.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n