UAV "Hunter" can be used as a "destroyer" of shock drones "Bayraktar"
Not so long ago, there were reports of regular tests of the Russian heavy strike drone "Hunter", developed under the project S-70. At the same time, it was indicated that the drone was tested, among other things, as an unmanned interceptor. It is this characteristic of the promising Russian UAV Okhotnik that caused a special discussion among experts and ordinary readers interested in air force topics. The topic is also discussed in the foreign expert community.
In particular, one of the areas for discussion is related to the possible use of the "Okhotnik" in the Russian Aerospace Forces as a means of destroying attack drones. At the same time, it must be stated that today only a few states of the world possess self-developed strike UAVs, in the full sense of the word. Among them are the USA, Turkey, Israel, China. Taking into account the fact that in the past few months the Turkish attack UAVs Bayraktar-TB2 have been actively used in hostilities, it is assumed that the "Hunter" can be tested as a means of destroying just such drones.
Here it should be noted a certain probability that Russian specialists have Turkish Bayraktar UAVs at their disposal. Such Drones were shot down by one means or another of the Libyan National Army of Marshal Khalifa Haftar in Libya, by the Armenian air defense systems of Nagorno-Karabakh. These facts give reason to say that technologies, including those that reveal the functionality of data exchange, could at least theoretically be studied by Russian specialists.
Taking this into account, the use of the Hunter as a "destroyer" of Bayraktar attack drones - as one of the manifestations of direct air interception - is not something incredible. For such operations, the Hunter can act autonomously. And its very appearance in the sky over a particular combat zone where attack UAVs are used can become a decisive factor for these UAVs to cease to be used there ... Here one should also take into account the clear advantage of the Hunter in altitude and speed. Open sources indicate that its practical ceiling is about 18 thousand meters (the ceiling of "Bayraktar" is about 8 km), and the speed in high-altitude echelons is about 1 thousand km / h. This a priori provides the ability to perform combat missions to "accelerate" or directly destroy the Bayraktar-class attack UAVs in virtually any conditions.
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