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That counter attack was more than a year ago. Now Ukrainians have drones capable of intercepting slow air targets like drones or helicopters. And they are ten t
by ponector 2y ago
That counter attack was more than a year ago. Now Ukrainians have drones capable of intercepting slow air targets like drones or helicopters. And they are ten times cheaper than manpads.
- paganel 2y agoThey don’t, plus Russia’s EW capabilities are now so good that stuff like HIMARS has now only a 10% chance of hitting its target (from a recent Western article on the issue), so there’s no chance in hell they’ll let some drones fight their attack helicopters and them (the Russians) not doing anything about it. Which is to say that these delusions won’t help the Ukrainians one bit, nor any other Eastern European army that will possibly fight the same Russians in the near future.
- ponector 2y agoThey don't? Stinger costs $100+k, high speed drone around 1k. There are no viable ways to EW counter man-operated drone capable of locking the target with autopilot. The biggest issue in such approach is opportunity cost: you can quickly fire another manpad, but not a drone.