Since the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine, air defence systems utilizing very short ranges to combat threats, barrel weapons have experienced a real Renaissance. This was greatly affected by the massive increase in the usage of inexpensive kind of aerial assault measures specified as all types of unmanned aircraft or circulating ammunition. The usage of costly short-range anti-aircraft missiles to combat them is not economically optimal. Here, inexpensive fighting means appear like anti-aircraft missiles of very short scope and artillery weapons. Among them, the most medial became the German production of Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard, which led to the renaissance of this kind of anti-aircraft weaponry in the world. So let's look at what German Rheinmetall presented at Eurosatory 2024.
