This is good news, negate the shaheds and the much of the russian ability to kill civilians is negated as well.
Need_answers11 on
Need a way to over ride the shahed drones and return to sender function, like an auto land on a drone. Have it 180 back to where it came from
Grumpflipot on
They build cheap shahed drones to engage expensive anti-air missles. It’s a game changer if Ukraine now shoots the shaheds with even cheaper anti-shahed drones. Let Russia get bankrupt.
Far_Out_6and_2 on
This is great news
ChungsGhost on
NATO countries (and probably Taiwan) better be taking notes.
It’s almost certain that the air support component of the Russians’ [Baltic Offensive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_offensive) **2.0** will rely on waves of massed Shahed strikes with the hope of overwhelming regular AA to pound rear areas and set off massive refugee outflows southwestwards to the Suwałki Gap which would clog railways and roads.
YWAK98alum on
Smaller and smaller, cheaper and cheaper. This is the way. No more reliance on Patriot missiles that cost $5M per shot.
I seriously want to see someone come up with a way to hurl a barrage of rocks at a Shahed or FPV drone with enough accuracy and distance to make it count.
KHRZ on
Thanks, this is the article I was waiting for.
SpringFuzzy on
It’s amazing work by Ukraine, fantastic. But the future is also incredibly scary. The next major conflict, which I of course pray doesn’t happen, might be fought with millions of these in swarm configurations. Build enough and It’s essentially a new form of WMD.
secondsniglet on
Couldn’t these interceptor drones also be used to take out cruise and ballistic missiles? If the entire Ukraine airspace is networked with the air defense, then there could be enough time to launch an interceptor drone in the path of a missile, which can then follow direction from radar stations to fine tune it’s position to be directly in the path of an oncoming missile.
As soon as Ukraine knows missiles are incoming they could have interceptor drones launched from 10,000 locations. As the missiles get closer the air defense network could direct the closest drones to position themselves for interception.
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This is good news, negate the shaheds and the much of the russian ability to kill civilians is negated as well.
Need a way to over ride the shahed drones and return to sender function, like an auto land on a drone. Have it 180 back to where it came from
They build cheap shahed drones to engage expensive anti-air missles. It’s a game changer if Ukraine now shoots the shaheds with even cheaper anti-shahed drones. Let Russia get bankrupt.
This is great news
NATO countries (and probably Taiwan) better be taking notes.
It’s almost certain that the air support component of the Russians’ [Baltic Offensive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_offensive) **2.0** will rely on waves of massed Shahed strikes with the hope of overwhelming regular AA to pound rear areas and set off massive refugee outflows southwestwards to the Suwałki Gap which would clog railways and roads.
Smaller and smaller, cheaper and cheaper. This is the way. No more reliance on Patriot missiles that cost $5M per shot.
I seriously want to see someone come up with a way to hurl a barrage of rocks at a Shahed or FPV drone with enough accuracy and distance to make it count.
Thanks, this is the article I was waiting for.
It’s amazing work by Ukraine, fantastic. But the future is also incredibly scary. The next major conflict, which I of course pray doesn’t happen, might be fought with millions of these in swarm configurations. Build enough and It’s essentially a new form of WMD.
Couldn’t these interceptor drones also be used to take out cruise and ballistic missiles? If the entire Ukraine airspace is networked with the air defense, then there could be enough time to launch an interceptor drone in the path of a missile, which can then follow direction from radar stations to fine tune it’s position to be directly in the path of an oncoming missile.
As soon as Ukraine knows missiles are incoming they could have interceptor drones launched from 10,000 locations. As the missiles get closer the air defense network could direct the closest drones to position themselves for interception.