Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Maybe existing CIWS systems (like Phalanx) that are used on ships would be suitable. If they can bring down incoming anti-ship missiles, then they should be fast enough to track drones, I would have thought.
The problem is still detecting them, and getting enough of the anti drone systems into place. Also CIWS systems tend to be big, complex and expensive, what's needed for drones is something that can be made relatively cheaply in large numbers and be deployed easily as your front lines move.

A normal AA missile can cover an area that can be tens of miles with relative ease, and a relatively small number of radar stations is enough to allow for warning and targeting, with drones being so much smaller you'd need far more detection systems, and then if you're using something like a phalanx you're going to need a massive number of them as they're line of sight, relatively short range and you'd probably need to program in a lot of "dead zones" to prevent your anti drone system causing more damage than the drones it's trying to take down as you're likely to be firing at much lower levels and those rounds have to go somewhere (an AA missile or flak gun firing into the air tends to have the remnants of it's ammo falling to the ground, not being fired in such a way that misses are still moving largely horizontally at lethal velocities).

Counter drones is probably the best long term solution, even armed counter drones that can work alongside some form of cheap to deploy detection system, so the defending drones can then take off and act as a mobile attacking system. Something along the lines of a cheap drone armed with a small AA rocket that can pop up along the route of the attacking drone, fire at it and then either drop down for reuse, or if the distance weapon fails, try and kamikaze the incoming drone so you're doing away with the need for a ground based system with LOS (potentially you could design them so they can be deployed on the back of a trailer that any vehicle with a towbar can move, so everywhere you have a unit of troops you cna have a drone counterbattery, or you could drop off dozens/hundreds of drone stations where they are needed and redploy them quickly)..
 
Defence is going to need to be size and "delivery of attack" specific I think unless some very powerful catch all defence can be built cheaply enough.

Very small drones, like commercial cheap ones able to drop like a hand grenade or something are one minor bit of damage away from failure. So anti drone drone with just like a dual barrell ultra short shotgun would work, and would be easy and quick to reload in battlefield scenarios.

Ship based stuff like Gatling benefits in that the incoming object is going to a specific point, ie very close to the defence so its heading towards it, so to some extent range doesn't matter, it does but not much.
Eg if I point at you 10 meters away, its kind of no different to if I point at you 25 meters away, if my aim is accurate i am hitting you in both scenarios if your heading directly towards me.

When you have static defence thats not itself being targetted but another point some distance away your trying to hit an object on a different course so being able to intercept it is different, you need to hit where it will be based on its speed and the speed of what you are firing at it.

The large drones which seem to be the main issue now are generally quite slow and not that advanced, in fact more like the V1s than anything else.
 
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Just thinking. Mini-drones... small target, lots of 'jitter', made mainly of plastic and with the problem of needing to not damage what you are protecting.

I can see the solution being some kind of laser-based system. Low-power contunuous beam for targetting, followed up by a high-powered pulse when it hits. Virtually instant response, and any misses just keep going upwards.
 
aim is to paint Russia in a bad light
really? aim is bad PR?

both your options are looney
You have to ask what would make all these countries spend all these resources, plunge their population into worst energy crisis since 1970s. To slightly annoy a maniac?
Its gotta be something more substantial.
 
really? aim is bad PR?

both your options are looney
You have to ask what would make all these countries spend all these resources, plunge their population into worst energy crisis since 1970s. To slightly annoy a maniac?
Its gotta be something more substantial.
What?
So, you don't agree that Russia is helmed by a maniac who is willing to go to war to get back to the old USSR?
 
If Russia going to deliberately terrorise civilians with constant drone strikes they deserve everything coming to them absoloute evil the pictures ive seen from the apartment blown up.

Couple killed expecting a baby :(
 
If Russia going to deliberately terrorise civilians with constant drone strikes they deserve everything coming to them absoloute evil the pictures ive seen from the apartment blown up.

Couple killed expecting a baby :(
The crazy western supporters of putin here and in America will deny that this is happening also and write it off as western propaganda. Infuriated me to no end.
 
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