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1. Gepards are big and not suitable for special operations roles. You can't throw one in a truck and haul it through rough terrain. 2. The Roadrunner system do
by runjake 3y ago
1. Gepards are big and not suitable for special operations roles. You can't throw one in a truck and haul it through rough terrain.
2. The Roadrunner system doesn't "fall down", it's designed to land if the intercept is unsuccessful.
3. Roadrunner is designed to be "cheap", compact and re-usable, as much as possible.
- RandomLensman 3y agoA large part of the Gepard weight/size is armor, not the AA, but yes, not man portable by any means (edit: the gun assembly is still many tons, I'd guess). The linked text talks about defense against cheap drones and cost curves - not about niche special operation air defense. If you have to defend an installation against a hundred cheap drones a week or so, not sure roadrunner is that cost efficient. On 2), yes, but only if the intercept fails kind of completely.
- hn_throwaway902 3y ago@RandomLensman - would be very interested to speak with you. I work with some folks in Ukraine to support defensive tech. chris at ukrainedefensefund dot org