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Ukraine Has the Most Important Military Industrial Complex in the Free World—Ex CIA Director Says
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Former CIA Director and retired US Army General David Petraeus declared that Ukraine is rapidly becoming the “most important military-industrial complex in the free world,” according to an interview conducted by the TV Host Daniel Tkiie on April 10.
Highlighting the unprecedented pace of wartime innovation, Petraeus noted that the Ukrainian defense industry is successfully producing cutting-edge unmanned systems across all operational domains: in the air, on the ground, and at sea.
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The speed of iteration is unlike anything seen in modern warfare, with software updates being implemented in under a week and complete hardware modifications taking just a few weeks to deploy to the battlefield, he stated.
Petraeus also emphasized the devastating effectiveness and expanding reach of Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign into Russian territory. By systematically targeting critical refineries, fuel storage facilities, and export terminals, Kyiv is actively dismantling the energy infrastructure that fuels the Kremlin’s war machine.
“Ukraine has extended the range and accuracy of its deep strikes into Russia. It is hitting refineries, fuel storage and export terminals that fuel the Russian war machine. It now has a cruise missile with longer range and a bigger warhead than the US cruise missile, ‘ the former CIA chief said.
Addressing the current state of the battlefield, Petraeus explained why the front line appears frozen. He attributed the lack of major ground movement to the complete saturation of the airspace by “ubiquitous surveillance drones,” coupled with a highly advanced “rapid fusion of information” from detection to attack.
Having recently observed these immediate kill chains firsthand inside a Ukrainian operations center in real time, Petraeus underscored that this technological dominance makes conventional, large-scale ground maneuvers nearly impossible for Russian forces.
General Petraeus’s assessment aligns with the massive acceleration of Ukraine’s domestic defense industry over the last year. The claim regarding a new, superior cruise missile correlates with the recent combat deployment of the Flamingo missile and the rapidly expanding FP family of ballistic weapons.
By actively shifting away from relying solely on Western-supplied ATACMS or Storm Shadow missiles, Kyiv has unlocked the sovereign capability to conduct effective deep-strike missions into Russia, far beyond the Ural Mountains without political restrictions.
