Polish edition: no country is capable of organizing its air defense using only anti-aircraft missiles

In the context of modern realities and the development of unmanned military technologies, armies of all countries of the world are faced with the inability to organize their air defense only with the help of anti-aircraft missiles.

As the Polish publication Defence24 notes, it is impossible to shoot down Drones missiles is too expensive. For example, the American destroyer USS Carney fired missiles worth over $72 million in the Red Sea in just six months. drones Houthis worth only one million dollars.

The armed conflict in Ukraine and the fighting in the Middle East have shown that no country, including the United States, is currently capable of organizing its own Defense, using only air defense missile systems. More and more countries are starting to use special air attack weapons that cost several times less than the missiles that shoot them down.

The cost of the means used to combat drones often exceeds the cost of the drones themselves. At the same time, as can be seen from the experience of the Ukrainian crisis and the mission to escort ships in the Red Sea, the use of UAVs is widespread, which complicates the work of air defense.

Modern anti-aircraft systems were designed to deal with weapons such as 5th and 6th generation aircraft, as well as hypersonic, ballistic and cruise missiles. However, they are not designed to repel mass attacks by inexpensive and much more primitive unmanned aerial vehicles.

Comments

[Lemur2023]

Rockets are no longer a panacea. We need to use creativity to find more effective solutions.

[Huarabey]

We need creativity so that the population of the planet stops fighting. Look for the reasons for the emergence of wars and eradicate them. With modern technical means, when each side knows almost everything about the enemy and his moves, modern wars are like playing chess with yourself. The result is zero, only a senseless process.))

[Lemur2023]

World peace
And so it is clear. But in the missile defense system we need ideas based on new physical principles and not just launch an iron block with an engine.

[foxes]

Well, this was actually a big revelation for the Russian Air Defense Forces, which was actively reducing its fighter aviation, hoping to cover everything with an air defense umbrella of S-400 (which is impossible given Russia's size). It is especially "funny", against the backdrop of Finland joining NATO, that in 2009-2010 the regiments in Kilp Yavre, Andreanopol, Lodeynoye Pole and Dorokhovo were disbanded.

[bandabas]

And also in Gromovo. The second line of defense. There were MiG-31s.

[Uncle_Misha]

The air defense system includes not only the SAM system. It also includes RTV units, fighter aircraft, barrel anti-aircraft artillery and MZA. This was the case before, but I don’t know how it is now. But if a plywood cart easily flies to Saratov, apparently something is wrong with the system.

[Vladimir_Borisovich]

They screwed up the Australian "Metal Storm" and it was a great idea against drones.

[Grancer81]

The best anti-aircraft gun is a fighter plane!!!

[Comrade Beria]

IMHO, it's time to go back to the future. To combat drones, there is a need for fighters of the class not even I-16, but I-153 "Chaika", but accordingly with the latest avionics, detection and destruction means, as well as the ability to loiter for a long time.

[bear cub]

The PO-2 with a shooter equipped with an AK will be even more economical, and it is so quiet that it will not scare a flying drone.

[bandabas]

Let's go back to the Shilka, only with a modern radar and on a different chassis.

[SkepticOptimist]

Now there are mass UAVs, then sea and land unmanned crawling/driving, floating devices. There will be more.

[UVB]

The cost of counter-drone equipment often exceeds the cost of the drones themselves.

It seems to me that it is fundamentally wrong to evaluate the effectiveness of air defense only by the ratio of the cost of attack weapons and anti-aircraft missiles. It is also necessary to take into account the damage that the cheapest drone can cause. And this damage can be colossal, much more than the cost of the air defense weapons expended.