The situation on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine is undergoing unforeseen major changes. Overall, Russia may really be at a disadvantage. According to a report by Pravda on October 13, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed that in the Donbas theater, the Russian armed forces began to receive orders from the top management to temporarily stop offensive operations and transfer to defense on the spot.
According to Global Network just reported, in response to the question of the extent to which the United States and the West have participated in the Ukrainian military operations, an official in the Pentagon recently admitted that the United States and the West have provided key intelligence information to Ukraine, and that Western aerospace resources are fully supporting Ukraine, giving Ukraine more advantages in the field of satellite intelligence than the Russian military.
The Ukrainian army is well aware of every move of the Russian army. Thanks to the West's fire and support, Ukraine has already formed a crushing advantage over Russia in the field of space reconnaissance. How can this battle be fought?
At present, the West, led by the United States, and NATO forces have deeply intervened in the Russian-Ukrainian war. According to the U.S. " New York Times ", military aerospace and reconnaissance satellites of the US military and NATO, various large reconnaissance aircraft , as well as technical reconnaissance and electronic warfare forces are conducting comprehensive monitoring of the Russian military dynamics on the Ukrainian battlefield.
The US military also monitors the Russian military communication system and interferes with the Russian military communication system. The Russian military's communication system has repeatedly encountered problems. The US military controls every move of the Russian army through satellite systems.
For example, after the Kerch Strait Bridge in Crimea was bombed, the US MAXAR Commercial Satellite Company immediately provided the first real-time satellite photos. Photos show that there are still a large number of vehicles stuck on the highway bridge, which is obviously not long after the big explosion at 6 a.m., and the vehicles passing through the bridge have not had time to evacuate. This seriously shows that American satellites monitor every move of the Russian-Ukrainian theater almost 24 hours a day.
Ukraine can currently use Western commercial optical and synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites in almost real time. We cooperated with more than 100 commercial remote sensing satellite companies to use more than 200 commercial remote sensing satellite images to conduct more than 20 different intelligence analysis. Therefore, it surpassed Russia in the field of all-weather day and night aerospace reconnaissance.
Take SAR synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite as an example. synthetic aperture radar can overcome the adverse effects of wind, rain, clouds, fog, and night, and implement all-day and all-weather imaging of the ground and oceans, and can find military equipment under the camouflage that optical satellites cannot see.
At the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine, under the coordination of the governments of the United States, Europe and the West, Ukraine won the access to commercial synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites owned by almost all Western countries, and can directly download radar imaging and big data related to the war area. It is then transferred to the EOS data analysis company founded by Ukrainian business giant Max Polyakov, which can quickly analyze and process satellite reconnaissance data.
For example, Ukrainian people have crowdfunded US$17 million and can use the highest permission to access Finland ICEYE satellite company an aperture radar imaging satellite. The radar imaging resolution of this satellite has an astonishing 0.3 meters, making it the world's highest resolution radar imaging satellite.
Finnish ICEYE currently operates a SAR imaging satellite constellation cluster, composed of 21 satellites, and is the world's largest radar imaging satellite cluster. Its ground reconnaissance capabilities are several orders of magnitude higher than those of the Russian army.
Western radar imaging satellites played a huge role in the Ukrainian counterattack over the past month, reconnaissing a large amount of concealed deployment intelligence of the Russian army and detecting the Russian army's camouflage behind forest areas and various obstacles. Ukrainian Defense Minister Olexi Reznikov not long ago paid special thanks to Finland ICEYE.
The Russian military intelligence collected by the United States NATO through military satellite and aircraft was shared with the Ukrainian army. The Ukrainian army obtained information from the West in a timely manner and directed the army to respond in response, resulting in several large-scale defeats of the Russian army. In more than a month of large-scale counterattack operations, with the support of the intelligence system of Western forces, one-way transparency on the battlefield became one of the most critical elements for the Ukrainian army to win.
