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A Ukrainian minister says she's frustrated by the West's inability to adapt its weapons to Russian tactics: report
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Some weapons systems that were immensely effective when they were first deployed in Ukraine have since seen limited results or have even fallen by the wayside as Russian forces adapt their tactics to counter them.
Anna Gvozdiar, Ukraine’s minister of strategic industries, told The Wall Street Journal that she was frustrated that these systems were not being adapted to catch up.
Excalibur artillery rounds — which had a huge impact on Ukraine’s fighting ability well into 2023 — had been all but abandoned by this spring after Russian forces repeatedly foiled them with advanced electronic warfare techniques, as The Washington Post reported.
Over the course of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has developed increasingly sophisticated jamming methods at a pace that far outstrips the current capabilities of the US, former Pentagon officials have previously warned.
Experts have told Business Insider that the problem of this fading usefulness of allied weapons on the Ukrainian battlefield is compounded by the piecemeal manner of their delivery.
“Weapons systems have been consistently released to Ukraine too late to have their optimal effect, and also have often been trickle fed,” Justin Bronk, an air power expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told BI.
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