It makes me wonder how some of these drones are flying around without pulling in anti-aircraft fire? If they’re big enough for another drone to go up with the intention of ramming it, where is the line that it’s still small enough that a MANPAD or even some kind of radar-assisted flak or auto-cannon can’t do the same job without the cycle-time of getting an anti-drone drone into the right area, airborne, and on target?
I understand you can’t send up a plane to do anti-drone intercepts, because the cost-benefit of giving the Russians’ SAMs a target doesn’t make sense. However, you can send up a drone because it’s not worth the Russians’ time (or it’s outside their capabilities?) to intercept something that small that is unmanned and on a suicide mission anyway. Is the suicide drone that much cheaper to the Ukrainians than trying to shoot the thing down from the ground?
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It makes me wonder how some of these drones are flying around without pulling in anti-aircraft fire? If they’re big enough for another drone to go up with the intention of ramming it, where is the line that it’s still small enough that a MANPAD or even some kind of radar-assisted flak or auto-cannon can’t do the same job without the cycle-time of getting an anti-drone drone into the right area, airborne, and on target?
I understand you can’t send up a plane to do anti-drone intercepts, because the cost-benefit of giving the Russians’ SAMs a target doesn’t make sense. However, you can send up a drone because it’s not worth the Russians’ time (or it’s outside their capabilities?) to intercept something that small that is unmanned and on a suicide mission anyway. Is the suicide drone that much cheaper to the Ukrainians than trying to shoot the thing down from the ground?
In Kherson by the looks of it
I love me some drone on drone action
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