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Is that right? Russians keep sending the Iranian Shahed drones but Ukraine seems to shoot them down quite easily. They struggle more with the more advanced wea
by rich_sasha 3y ago
Is that right?
Russians keep sending the Iranian Shahed drones but Ukraine seems to shoot them down quite easily. They struggle more with the more advanced weaponry.
There's of course cost/benefit, the drone may well be cheaper than the fancy rocket that shot it down.
But then there's a deluge of new anti drone weaponry so it's hard to know what that balance will look like in even 5 years time.
- Gud 3y agoThere is a major difference between the small anti personnel kamikaze drones Ukraine are sending into the Russian trenches and the 500kg Shahed drones Russia are using to terrorize Ukrainian civilians though. In Drone warfare, smaller definitely wins. I suspect we'll start seeing anti-drone drones soon enough.
- g19fanatic 3y agoAlready here... https://www.anduril.com/hardware/anvil https://www.anduril.com/hardware/anvil
- red-iron-pine 3y agoShahed drones are big, slow, and have a notable radar signature. A lot of smaller drones are mostly cardboard and are hard to spot, both in terms of radar as well as Mk1 eyeball. Smaller drones are a perfect use case for older systems like the Zhilka -- no need for a rocket. EW and HARMs are also a big discussion topic there.