Ukraine shouldn't copy Iranian "shaheds"

Our propaganda claims that we shoot down 100% of the "shaheds", but for some reason, after each raid, problems with electricity begin.

Of course, we have learned how to shoot down drones. Searchlights, machine guns, cannons - like in the Second World War. Only instead of stationary positions, there is a mobile "cavalry" of drone hunters.

Of course, we are also helped by the simple tactics of the Russian servicemen, who launch drones in the same way as they launch rockets - exactly on command, without taking into account the technical features and potential capabilities of unmanned vehicles. (I will not dwell on this point in more detail, so as not to tip off the enemy).

“The big bosses are tempted to copy "shahed" to take revenge on the Russians. I know they are working on this task.”

However, unfortunately, we still get hit from time to time. And the big bosses are tempted to copy "shahed" in order to take revenge on the Russians. I know they are working on this task.

To copy not in the literal sense of the word, but so that the flight range was under a thousand kilometers and the warhead "at least 30 kg", but better fifty or one hundred and fifty…

After all, the bigger the stronger, right?... And I keep hearing the same first question that big bosses ask drone developers: what is the weight of your warhead?... If it's less than the cherished thirty kegs, they turn their noses up, like it's not interesting.

But this is the wrong approach. The large weight of the combat unit is the large weight of the drone, its large size, high cost and visibility.

“After all, why do we shoot down "shaheds"?.. Because modern radars still see them due to their considerable size, even if not at a long distance, and the powerful engine necessary for the flight of such a large device strongly unmasks it (sound and heat trace).”

After all, why do we shoot down "shaheds"?... Because modern radars still see them due to their considerable size, even if not at a long distance, and the powerful engine necessary for the flight of such a large device greatly unmasks it (sound and heat trace). Yes, it is trivial to get into a big "shahed" easier.

The heavy weight of the combat unit is necessary if we are going to demolish a concrete building, destroy armored vehicles, and lure the enemy out of a bunker.

But what primary goals might our long-range strike drones have? - airfields, air defense positions, radars, surface-to-surface missile launchers, oil storage facilities, headquarters, etc. And for defeating such targets, the large power of the combat unit is secondary, and even harmful, more important than the accuracy and mass use of drones.

“But what primary goals might our long-range strike drones have? - airfields, air defense positions, radars, surface-to-surface missile launchers, oil storage facilities, headquarters, etc. And for defeating such targets, the large power of the combat unit is secondary, and even harmful, more important than the accuracy and mass use of drones.”

Do you remember "unknown whose" drone flew to Engels? One or two bombers were injured. The power of the combat unit was - estimated - 150-250 kg. And an increase in the weight of the warhead would not automatically lead to an increase in the number of warplanes hit on the airfield, because the maximum radius of damage (by shrapnel) of an aviation high-explosive bomb weighing 500 kg is no more than 200 meters, and the shock wave is dangerous only at fifty meters, and the warplanes are far from each other…

If not one drone with a warhead weighing 250 kg had flown to Engels, but a hundred small, cheap and inconspicuous (practically invisible) 'kamikaze' drones with a warhead weighing 2.5 kg — all bombers would have turned into shreds.

We don't need to copy Iran's unmanned aerial vehicles. We need to design and manufacture our drones, invent and implement our deployment tactics.

This should be done by professionals.

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About the author. Yurii Kasianov, volunteer, soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, activist of the Army SOS initiative, head of the A.Drones initiative.

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