>>400347Yeah, 20-30 minutes before counteraction of enemy drone battalion and brigade artillery. Frontline drone teams and mortars can react in 5-10 minutes (just when bike assault teams reached their target), but their number of prepared drones is limited and usually exhausted before attack.
>>384684I want to share current tactics of bike assaults for Iranian friends. Infantry battalion can support company of 8 assault units (4 soldiers with bikes per unit), 2 reserve bike units, 2 evacuation units, 2 land drone teams, 2 sniper units. Brigade level support is necessary (they provide recon, isolation and artillery pressure to exhaust enemy), but battalion command can prepare more successful plan for assault operation, they know the surroundings and enemy better.
Attack cycle consists of six steps: isolation, exhaustion, assemblage, distraction, charge, fortify.
1. Isolation means fire control over supply lines. If enemy forced to use drones to supply infantry, their drone-team positions easy to spot before operation. For isolation we use fiber-optic drones to make ambushes on the roads and heavy multi-copters to place mines. One drone battalion can isolate 5×10 km zone with one major road to prevent battalion level support.
2. Exhaustion means frequent artillery/drone barrage to prevent sleep, replacement and evacuation. Chance of wound for each soldier on frontline is 1-3% per day. Currently ordinary FPV-drones almost similar to shells in terms of efficiency against fortified infantry. Usually needs 7-14 days and 150 drones/shells per kilometer of frontline to break morale and make around 30% losses (means 3/10 injured soldiers in targeted square kilometer). Then just before attack we use glide bombs against spotted drone teams in 5×10 km zone (mostly recon teams with Mavics).
3. Assemblage of assault company in frontline dugouts can be finished in 2-6 days. This is most dangerous stage of operation, but there is always enough supply units with bikes to hide their movements. During this phase drone teams prepared pathways through minefields (they use explosives with cables) and looking for possible hideouts. Commanders of assault units use video-stream of drone teams to study battlefield and make decision for attack. Land drones and electrobikes can reach 16 km with full accumulators, but considering hard terrain and maneuvers expected distance about 6 km.
4. Distraction is task for 6/8 of assault units and for land drone teams. They imitate massive attack in various directions to force enemy FPV-teams to use most of their prepared drones. Bikers can retreat and hide before enemy drones reach them. Then land drones can infiltrate into enemy positions before actual assault and check the path through minefields. Air drone units use smoke and gas grenades to harass and mark spotted enemy. All assault units must be ready to charge, but most of directions is not suitable to reach enemy in 10 minutes.
5. Charge is task for 2/8 of assault units. Bikers follow the path of successful land drone. Snipers with 12.7 mm rifles useful for fire support, they can use prepared hidden positions and react faster than automatic grenade launchers or mortars, they can suppress enemy positions right and left from charge direction, but most of fire support provide fiber-optic FPV-drones, which can follow the bikers and fully control enemy position during charge. Charge stage must be finished in 5-10 minutes and assault stage in 20 minutes. 4-8 assaulters can overcome 2-3 defenders. If time is run out, stormtroopers should drop their bikes and use previously marked hideouts near enemy position.
6. Fortify stage following assault when 30 minutes is over. Assault units must hide in enemy dugouts, they have nets to replace damaged ones. 1 soldiers in assault unit has EW equipment, 1 soldier shotgun, others 2 few anti-drone magazines for automatic rifles. Each soldier have 15 magazines (450 ammo) and 10+ grenades, 2-3 liters of water and few energy bars. Light weapon like machine gun or RPG is not necessary, since any fire support can be replaced by FPV-drones. Wounded soldiers can be evacuated in following day (when assault company imitate/execute another attack). Supplies delivered mostly with drones.
Bike company can achieve 45-70 km/hour speed of charge, but can assault only weak positions with 2-4 soldiers, if enemy is more numerous armor assault is better decision. Usually there is no more than 5-15 of soldiers per square kilometer of frontline (2-4 per dugout). So, 8 soldiers of 2 assault units is enough to capture one of their positions and force others to retreat. Firefight during assault is rare thing. 3/4 of enemy units just run away under heavy pressure, or their positions already abandoned. If enemy ready to defend position, better to take one of nearly trenches and just force enemy to spend ammo in following night. Or just use glide bomb / kamikaze land drone / heavy multi-copter / shaheed-like drone. If enemy is spotted and suppressed during assault they are finished. Assault units is mostly spotters, not fighters.
Success rate of bike assault actually quite low, about 1/3, but losses lower than during armor assault or infantry infiltration. Bikers have enough time to try and retreat with injured comrades is something went wrong. And they are much more controllable than infantry, they can just follow the drones.