Esto es lo que ha expresado recientemente el JEMy de la US Air Force GR David W. Allvin. La proliferaci\u00f3n de drones en la guerra de Ucrania ha cambiado la manera en que muchos expertos ven el futuro de la guerra. Pero el Gen Allvin afirm\u00f3 asimismo, que hay que ser cauteloso y no sobrevalorar las lecciones aprendidas en el conflicto citado, creyendo que pueden ser directamente aplicables a un futura guerra contra grandes potencias como Rusia o China. Y si bien la disponibilidad de enormes cantidades de UAS producidos en masa y de bajo costo es una interesante opci\u00f3n, la US Air Force continuar\u00e1 avanzando en su ambicioso proyecto denominado Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). El mismo consiste en drones de combate (UCAS) capaces de operar en escuadrilla y de manera colaborativa, con las plataformas de combate tripuladas por pilotos. Se estima que en un plazo de 5 a\u00f1os, se dispondr\u00eda de 150 CCA para su evaluaci\u00f3n operacional.<\/p>\n
The proliferation of drones in the war in Ukraine has changed how many experts see the future of warfare. But the Air Force\u2019s top general is cautioning against overstating those lessons as the U.S. seeks to deter China and Russia and prepare for other major threats.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the appearance of drones and the appearance of rapidly replicable, low-cost, mass airborne platforms offers both a threat and an opportunity,\u201d Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said Oct. 25 at the\u00a0Military Reporters and Editors Conference<\/a>\u00a0in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n There is no question that drones provide the military with a way to strike targets with precision in a cost-effective way.\u00a0That offers the opportunity, Allvin said,\u00a0\u201cto deliver combat airpower, sensing, communications in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n But what works well in Ukraine, he added, may have less utility in the western Pacific as the U.S. seeks to counter China\u2019s growing military.<\/p>\n \u201cThe question that we need to address as we look at how it might impact and find its way into our Air Force writ large is the utility across the geography,\u201d Allvin added. \u201cI would not want us to take what\u2019s going on in Ukraine and \u2026 transport that immediately to the Indo-Pacific because of the nature of the tyranny of distance.\u201d<\/p>\n Pentagon officials have noted the utility of drones for both Russian and Ukrainian forces. Russia has used Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure. Russian forces have also employed small quadcopter-style and first-person view drones for reconnaissance and aerial strikes.<\/p>\n Ukraine, in turn, has developed long-range drones that can strike targets in Russia from over 400 kilometers away, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said last week.<\/p>\n