The problem of combating commercial drones
While everyone was watching the Chinese Winnie the Pooh on the balloon, in this article I tried to analyze the possibility of neutralizing the threat from commercial quadrocopters not in the “as we would like” format, but specifically: how this can be done in our army and quickly.
Surprisingly, the RF Ministry of Defense noticed the threat from commercial quadrocopters before the start of the NWO and even took some actions against it.
And Murz, and many more, have anti-drone wunderwaffles running through the edge, which the troops have. But this was done in a strange way: no one knows how to use it, how it works - they don’t know, there are no instructions for the devices, and in general the thing is expensive - you’ll still break it. In fact, most often it just lay in a packing box, or was used as a maternity hospital for cats.
During a visit to the Russian military standing next to him, on some domestic issue, "Bereg" found in their headquarters a long-abandoned aluminum wardrobe trunk, on the lid of which a cat had recently given birth to kittens and the military knew nothing more about it. They said, they say, those whom we replaced left him here. What is there - we do not know, some kind of crap. Now Igor is the only person who can launch this system on the spot and use it for its intended purpose.
The second surprising point is that, paradoxically, the military on the more dangerous threat of commercial intelligence work drones they didn’t reflect strongly, but then they started dumping various explosives, and the quadrocopter with a grenade turned into a mega-weapon in the minds of the military.
At this stage, they began to somehow fight them, but the systemic problem was that the technical means of detection were, at best, a soldier with binoculars, and more often just the troops themselves, who saw the drone and reported to the rebts or freelance anti-drone units that appeared in some battalions. This, by the way, is well shown in the film "Best in Hell".
Enthusiasts
In some divisions, real enthusiasts of this business have appeared, and if we analyze their work, it turns out that the problem with commercial drones is completely solvable, and with little bloodshed.
1. No need to create separate divisions for this. For them, we simply do not have competent officers, so the first ones that come to hand and, let's say, not very sensible, will be appointed.
2. We already have a unit that is responsible for the air defense of the battalion and company - this is an anti-aircraft missile platoon with MANPADS, and so, you just need to include two additional soldiers in each of its squads: one with an analyzer, the second with an anti-drone gun. Experience shows that these funds are more than enough to cover the mouth.
3. In the future, when our defense industry in terms of means of combating commercial drones reaches at least the Turkish level, then it is possible to include a fourth squad with integrated means of detecting and suppressing battalion-level drones in the platoon. However, our army and industry already have separate examples of this, but to a greater extent this concerns means of destruction or suppression, and not detection.
All this will ensure the average level efficiency:
• Breakthroughs of the perimeter by reconnaissance quadrocopters - on average, no more than one per day;
• dumping the target load by impact quadrocopter - on average, zero per day.
The key factor is the transfer of means of combating drones from the EW troops to the military air defense. Unlike the Rebovites, the military personnel have a systematic understanding of exactly what tasks are solved when covering the units and what should not happen.
Moreover, this will allow you to do everything quickly, since you only need to retrain platoon commanders a little at officer training camps.
It would be a huge mistake to transfer anti-drone rifles to companies, and even more so to platoons. Neither motorized rifle nor tank, nor artillery officers have comprehensive knowledge of defense against an air enemy and they will not be able to train operators of anti-drone guns, as well as organize their use. As a result, a profanation will turn out: that there seems to be equipment, and periodically some drones are shot down, but there is no comprehensive countermeasures.
I must say right away that this is not a panacea for all RPVs, but this will force the enemy to greatly reduce the use of commercial-type quadrocopters, and to rely more on the use of aircraft-type RPVs, which are much smaller.
Now with regard to the OPC.
It is extremely useful for them to learn the meaning of the word “ecosystem” and present not individual, albeit “unparalleled” samples, but a set of means for detecting and suppressing / destroying drones. Moreover, a complex based on different physical principles, since each of them is good in its own way, but also has certain limitations. For example, a radar provides a longer range, but its effectiveness is reduced for small targets. Lidar compensates for this disadvantage, but within a shorter range. Therefore, all detectors must be used in an integrated manner.
Good news
To end on a positive note, I note that after 11 months of the war, the enemy began to fix the complexity of the work of some anti-drone units of the Russian army.
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