It is expected to be "obvious of course" that in order to combat aerial assault measures, they must be first detected and located, then followed and yet identified. However, looking at what has been happening in the arms marketplace in fresh years, it is hard not to announcement that many armies delighted with the drone revolution focused on acquiring further varieties of unmanned workers, forgetting a bit about systems to combat them. As the arms fair in London shows, the military and producers draw conclusions from Ukraine and effort to catch up. There is no tiny challenge. How to detect and track a low-flying object, sometimes very small, with a tiny to not tell the highly tiny surface of the reflection of radar waves?
I remember my visit to the London DSEI Fair in 2011. This was my first, after the air showroom in Le Bourget, a major abroad exhibition event of the defence manufacture I attended. What was most striking to me about the equipment and weapons presented was the number of unmanned systems shown. The number of drones has been a small dizzy.
I admit that erstwhile I looked at the drones on DSEI at that time, I was curious in how they were built, how they had the drive, the communication systems they had sensors, how much time they could spend in the air. I sighed, thinking, erstwhile we besides will have in service a solution of this or akin class. In the sword and shield system, I thought about how to have a sword, not a shield, due to the fact that I was not caught by the question of how to fight drones, but how to get them.
This year's DSEI is diametrically different in this respect. Yes, it is hard not to announcement the unmanned workers shown by the companies, due to the fact that there are rather quite a few them, but besides very clearly the systems to combat them are very obvious. While only a fewer years ago they were primarily tiny portable kits to interfere with the communication systems utilized by bsl (which they were forced to land), the transmission now points to kinetics. Drones are to be shot down by any possible means – barrel or rocket artillery.
The recipe for specified a weapon strategy is simple. There are eyes, i.e. radars or optoelectronic heads to track and track drones; hands, i.e. barrel artillery up to 40 mm (very frequently supported by anti-aircraft missiles) and legs, i.e. platforms – wheeled or caterpillar, autonomous or not – on which the combat strategy is installed.
Such solutions, i.e. mobile anti-aircraft kits, are shown on DSEI several, if not more. They offer both the largest and smallest arms companies.
Someone might say: Ok, countries like Poland may be curious in anti-dron systems, but why specified solutions to countries thousands of kilometers from Russia? It's not like anything. Shahed (whether another -ahed) will not scope them, and Patriot-type systems gotta combat maneuvering missiles. That's very shortsighted thinking. Let's take a hypothetical script where a container ship from a shadow fleet flows across the Mediterranean Sea. At 1 point, not 1 or 2 of them run, but hundreds of kamikaze drones. Sound familiar? That's precisely what the Ukrainians did, carrying tirs into Russia the swarm of their FPVs and Attacking them strategical airports to destruct the aircraft based in them.
Fortunately, NATO armies are increasingly knowing the dangers of utilizing drones not only in the realities of classical conflict, but besides in actions on the threshold of war. That's why they want systems capable of combating drones. The biggest technological challenge that the military has to face is the issue of fast detection of threats from the air. Drones are an highly hard opponent, due to the fact that they usually fly low, sometimes they have very tiny ones to not say an highly tiny surface of radar reflection. The solution to these problems, as can be seen on the DSEI and seen on the MSPO, can be inexpensive and hard to destruct systems for aerial recognition, specified as drones with radars. So it's very possible that the best way for a sword will be... a second sword.
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