The effectiveness of Russian attacks has increased three times. Here is the Kremlin strategy
Experts note that the Russian army is increasingly using Tactics of the so -called swarm – simultaneous launch of a large number of drones, among which both combat and false goals may include. In addition, unmanned aerial vehicles began to fly higher, which makes them difficult to destroy them with machine guns.
Russia began to use the improved version of the drone-Geran-3. It is equipped with a turbojet engine and can reach a speed of up to 800 km per hour. in quilting. In addition, Moscow increased its own production of Shahids, which allowed to speed up the pace of attacks on Ukraine. The attack of July 9 turned out to be record -breaking: 728 drones and imitators of unmanned aircraft launched the Russian troops.
In the face of this escalation Ukraine adapts its own anti -aircraft defense. The former deputy commander of the Air Force of Great Britain Andrew Turner says that in the conditions of war in Ukraine, changes occur literally every two weeks. “Everything develops at great speed” – Turner emphasized.
Currently, in the fight against unmanned aircraft, the Ukrainian armed forces use radiolocation measures to interfere with GPS drone navigation, and also use machine guns and anti -aircraft installations. In particular, we are talking about modern self -propelled anti -aircraft departments Oerlikon Skynex of the German company Rheinmetall.
On July 10, the President of Ukraine Wołodymyr Zelanski stated that the Ukrainian army began to effectively capture dozens of drones with their own unmanned aerial vehicles. At the same time, he announced the conclusion of an agreement with Eric Schmidt, the general director of the American company Swift Beat, regarding the joint production of hundreds of thousands of drones for the needs of Ukrainian forces.
