The main task is the effective destruction of Shahed—136 type UAVs, however, it is capable of detecting and shooting down both smaller targets and high-speed cruise missiles in all cases almost autonomously. The system has already shot down four shaheds in combat conditions.
According to the developer, Sky Sentinel is able to detect and shoot down any target flying at speeds up to 800 km/h. AI is trained to recognize birds, and does not waste ammunition "on sparrows." The complex is autonomous and works in conjunction with the radar — it receives target data, trajectory and shoots independently.
The cost of one turret is $150,000. To cover one city, you need from 10 to 30 units.
Preparations are currently underway for mass production.

by Volter318

21 comments

  3. This is exactly the type of stuff you need to counter cheap mass produced Shahed drones. Imagine wasting a multi-million dollar PAC-3 patriot missile on a little shahed which costs not even 30k USD.

  4. 10.000 of those as first line of defence please 💪 Let’s woop some orc ass

  5. Can one of these please be named ‘Baldrick’?

    Oh, pretty please, sire! Moi muvva smoked herself t’ def too see theves guns!

  6. Luckily it recognises birds. Imagine being a bird and being shot down. Tho, accuracy is a challenge tho hitting such a small target.

  7. $4.5m to protect your city is chicken feed really.

  11. Something like this is going to be mandatory for MBT’s if they are still going to be used in offensive manoeuvres, the games changed too much with drones.

  14. That’s an incredible piece of autonomous engineering, it’s so positive to see AI being used for defence … Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

  17. That is incredibly cheap! If that saves you the cost of a sky ranger for the use case, that’s awesome. Probably the only thing cheaper are the old gepards, but they don’t mak’em anymore.

  18. I just read I think on Maks25 that shaheds are now flying at 2000 meters. Which I believe after some Googling is the limit height of .50 Cal M3P. As an example. What I am trying to say is that I think these look cool and cost effective and should have had a few hundred last year. But might shoot a little short now? Hope I am wrong!

  20. This is great tech. Low cost against low cost. And it will be battle proven within a few months, other armies will love to buy this systems.

  21. IFF? Don’t want to accidently shoot down your own aircraft…man in the loop or no fly zones perhaps?

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