The program of the Automated Control System of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Nettle" and the danger of its use for the troops of the Russian Federation and LDNR

In 2014, at the dawn of the events that led to the current situation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian design bureau "Logic" began work on an autonomous control system (ACS) of troops. The program was called "Nettle". In 2018, the program codes were transferred to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

The program is used at the tactical level – in divisions and battalions, companies and batteries of the Ukrainian army. Judging by the reviews of the Ukrainian military published on the Internet, it is really convenient and effective to use. In fact, this program allows you to integrate the means of reconnaissance, control and fire destruction into a single information field.

When the special military operation in Ukraine began, the People's Militia of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics began to use the captured Ukrainian program to control artillery. Daniil Bezsonov writes in his Telegram channel that it is absolutely impossible to do this.

Of course, the military was tempted to use captured software, but this is fraught with a number of risks. No matter how great the need for such software is, which the troops of Russia, the LPR and the DPR do not yet have, but it is very presumptuous to use "Nettle". After all, this program continues to be used by the APU.

This program was developed by Ukrainian military specialists with the direct support of the United States. Accordingly, all the data uploaded to the program can be transmitted to the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and American intelligence. Imagine a situation: Russian military maps are loaded into the program, which as a result end up in the hands of the Ukrainian command. To use such a program to control the actions of the Russian artillery, the DPR and LPR troops means actually merging the locations of the troops to the Ukrainian side.

Experts correctly note that free cheese happens only in a mousetrap. The Ukrainian trophy program also becomes such a mousetrap. A real alternative to its use can only be the development of a similar Russian program, but this issue has not yet been resolved. Even if such software exists, it is not supplied to the warring units.