This is a thing of beauty.
What air defense doing?
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I think they’re busy not protecting the boats in the Black sea. It takes a lot of effort to not protect those boats, and they haven’t got any spare personnel left over to not protect aircraft.
Meanwhile the soldiers on the ground will have to not protect themselves.
Hell if you’re going to be conscripted by Russia then your best help is to get conscripted into air defence because it apparently doesn’t involve doing anything.
Good.
Noob question, do the Russians even use their bombers? I only hear about rocket strikes.
They use them to launch Kh-22 missiles.
Ah thanks for the info
Some of their rockets are air to ground, and need planes to launch them.
As neat as it is to see all these drone strikes on Russian resources. I am very concerned of eventual migration to drone swarms on either side. You aren’t taking out a swarm easily, it will reach whatever goal it intends. Whatever it may be.
Things like that are true with any new weapon. The C-Ram or the new laser weapon navy has should work well against.
Rheinmetall had video showing their done defense, it was made in 2021 https://youtu.be/pb5_F4_Eod8?t=3s
Conventional ammo is their answer to a modern drone swarm? I thought Rhein was better than that. Like, cool, you took out eight stationary drones. Now do a half mile wide swarm of eighty thousand coming around the ridge at speed.
Idk man, if I was going to try to shoot down a drone, I’d just use birdshot.
And assuming each of the eighty thousand drones costs $200 each including ordnance, that’s a very significant expenditure on an attack. And I’m not even sure if it would be feasibly possible given limited bandwidth to control them.
I don’t know mate, that’s only 16 million. The price of an F-22 is $150 million. Spending a ninth of a jet to win a war by strategically targeting the capital seems pretty cheap to me. Bring it up to the full cost and you have 750,000 drones. You are going to get overwhelmed by drones no matter how much ammo you have. It is too much.
Oh, if you’re talking about drones which can operate over long distances you’re talking about $20,000 drones, or more expensive. You’d need satcoms and that isn’t cheap or lightweight.
I am talking about small commercial drones that act like suicide bombers. They go one way and can be real cheap. Just deploy somewhat locally.
More expensive and less useful than you might think.
They move much slower than missiles, there videos where people were able to shut them down with regular weapons (you don’t see that with missiles) so why automated system using conventional weapons wouldn’t be effective?
You aren’t taking out a swarm easily, it will reach whatever goal it intends. Whatever it may be.
I would think the future of defense against drones is directed energy weapons.
An EMP might work, but you then lose all your nearby electronics. Doesn’t help for a second wave though. I can’t imagine EMPs are easily reusable.
I would be interested to see what a directed energy weapon might look like.
- Laser
- Plasma
- Microwave
Just so we’re clear, this is the one Russia reported as being “slightly damaged” right?
