RFE (Radio Free Europe) heeft een artikel geschreven over
Rubicon, de steeds groter wordende elite drone eenheid binnen het Russische leger.
Ik heb ze al eerder genoemd in een eerdere posts
Yakolev in "Strijdverloop in de Rusland Oekraïne oorlog 2025-M3"
Yakolev in "Strijdverloop in de Rusland Oekraïne oorlog 2025-Q3"
Inside Rubicon, The Elite Russian Drone Unit Wreaking Havoc On Ukraine's Troops
https://www.rferl.org/a/r...ukraine-war/33532804.htmlMonths after their surprise invasion of Kursk in August 2024, Ukrainian forces were struggling to hold their lines in the Russian border region, facing intensifying pressure from a combination of Russian regular units and North Korean troops.
Then, a newly formed, little-known elite Russian drone unit turned up the pressure in a major way.
Part of a secretive, larger organization called Rubicon, the unit worked methodically, hammering the lines that supplied Ukrainian positions in the village of Sudzha, and making their holdout untenable.
Finally, in March, Ukraine pulled out of Kursk.
Na een baptism by fire in Koersk is Rubicon steeds verder uitgegroeid tot een veel grotere organisatie waar heel veel geld in wordt geïnvesteerd. Alleen het beste personeel wordt gehaald, aangespoord door hoge lonen.
Rubicon has become “Russia's best technological unit,” said Maria Berlinska, head of the Ukrainian Aerial Reconnaissance Support Center, a nongovernment group that assists the military.
“Rubicon has brilliant management, works systematically, selects the best personnel, provides training, and supplies all necessary resources. They pour money into it,” Berlinska said in a Facebook post on August 21. “Everyone who knows how Rubicon works agrees on one thing: It is very effective. It is a system, while most of [Ukraine’s] front lines are still in a state of chaos.”
Een trainingsbasis van Rubicon is het befaamde Patriot Park. Deze locatie werd al eerder aangevallen door Oekraïense drones. Vreemd dat ze op zo'n openbare en bekende plek trainen.
One of Rubicon’s main bases or training centers appears to be located at the Patriot Park Exhibition and Congress Center, according to the video published by Solovyov and other videos released by the Defense Ministry, including one featuring Belousov touring the center.
The sprawling facility on Moscow’s western suburbs, which has hosted major military exhibitions in the past, was hit by a Ukrainian attack drone on May 22; the scale of damage was unclear. Three days later, workers appeared to begin construction of a tower for a Pantsir air defense system.
Rubicon valt systematisch Oekraïense drone operators aan, met vrij extreme gevolgen.
Since February, Rubicon units have been systematically targeting Ukrainian drone operators who fly drones from positions far back behind the front lines. In one location, one Ukrainian brigade reported losing up to 70 percent of its drone operators in one week due to Rubicon targeting, Lee said.
Ook vallen ze heel vaak EW systemen maar ook Oekraïense ISR drones aan. De Russische versie van Oryx (LostArmour) poste vandaag op X dat Rubicon hun 1000ste bevestigde ISR drone hebben vernietigd (op basis van de vrijgegeven filmpjes van Rubicon). Ook publiceren ze heel veel filmpjes van aanvallen op zware bommenwerper / logistieke drones gebruikt door Oekraïne.
As of September, according to statistics compiled by LostArmour, a pro-Kremlin open-source tracking site, more than 25 percent of all Rubicon strikes targeted drones, with another 15 percent targeting various radar, communications, and electronic warfare systems.
Link naar LostArmour tweet
Het is dus van ontzettende belang dat Oekraïne er van leert, zich aanpast en de Rubicon operators elimineren.
Denys Mishchenko, a soldier with the Azov 12th Special Forces Brigade, said the Rubicon units “need to be studied, analyzed; countermeasures need to be found.”
“This is a very powerful enemy that needs to be given more attention,” he said in a post to X. “If you’ve met them, you’ll know what I’m talking about.”
Well, sir, on first sighting the French, I naturally gave the order to advance. That's my style, sir.