Summary
Small FPV drones, traveling at 37mph, have become ubiquitous in Ukraine’s war, evolving from “a novelty to a weapon of choice.”
Ukrainian forces deploy these low-cost, explosive-equipped drones for reconnaissance and precision attacks, transforming frontlines into deep drone combat zones.
Crowdfunded and assembled locally, FPV drones are also used for air defense, targeting Russian aircraft and drones at lower costs.
With limited Western aid uncertain, Ukraine focuses on scaling drone production and innovation to counter Russia’s numerical advantage and maintain battlefield efficiency.
Would be interesting if an effective countermeasure for drones is to disable all electronics in an area.
Like an EMP?
Yeah, that or something similar.
An EMP is expensive and instananeous, caused by a nuclear or high explosive bomb. They are suited to active offense more than passive defense.
Non-nuclear has a max range of 1 mile-ish.
If a drone travels 30 mph, you’d have to detonate a high explosive warhead above your command center every minute to maintain a protective field of sorts.
I think an EMP can be triggered by things other than a bomb.
Other forms of electromagnetic warfare also exist which target the drones wireless signal to the operator. Some tanks now have these devices mounted to them. This is being countered with the use of fiber optic canisters with huge lengths of hair-thin fiber cable coiled inside. The drone would still likely be susceptible to an EMP, but as you stated an EMP is really not practical, as it disrupts all electronics even your own.
True. More targeted measures than EMP are possible.
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my guess is essentially a robot controlled turret that shoots them down using trigonometry n math stuff. Isn’t what they have with planes just bigger?
Carnival BB gun on a turret basically. Squat for range, but squat for detection distance anyway. It would be able to knock out shaped charge dones outside their effective range, just barely. Drones with a grenade would still be close enough to be fatal without cover. It’d be an automated system to do the same thing the sad cages do now.
That’s when and where the Ukraininans start using artillery.
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