Ukraine just got a new Western air-defense system meant to wipe out Russian drones by firing 1,000 rounds per minute

by A_Lazko

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  2. The title is exactly backwards. This system uses small bursts of precision fire and shells with precision auto setting of burst fuzing.

  3. Stupid title. It’s not the fire rat that makes this system good, i.e. it’s not about expending a high number of rounds

    Edit: typo

  4. Ukraine will use these systems to down drones, but within days we will hear about them downing missiles once Ukraine improves on them.

    Same as them improving the patriot system to down missiles it was not designed to target, never mind shoot down.

  5. This may be a dumb question, but couldn’t a computerized gun hit a ballistic missile, and even if it explodes it would be premature?

  8. If it performs as advertised, this is a game changer. No system is going to be 100% effective 100% of the time but, once fully developed and fielded, it will give vital installations superb air defense. The next step would then be miniaturization and mobility so it can be deployed close to the front lines to protect troops, vehicles and artillery systems.

  10. i believe each round is programmed wirelessly as they are fed for firing with a range as well, so they ‘destruct’ around where the drones are spotted on radar for shrapnel damage. There are multiple types of ammo. This is also beneficial because the bullets won’t just fall to the ground and hit the ground like shooting a gun in the air would.

  11. This is the part that impresses me the most:

    “Each Ahead round contains 152 tungsten sub-projectiles which are ejected immediately in front of the oncoming target,”

    I suspect that those rounds are not going to be fired at the rate that the headline reads, but oh, how useful they will be.

  12. Uses the same ammo as the Gepard.

    It’s excellent ammo. There is now a functionally unlimited supply of it now that it’s being made outside Swiss land.

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