According to him, the production of this type of UAV is much more expensive than those that the invaders are now massively launching in Ukraine.
“There, the engine costs at least $ 40 thousand, compared to the Shahed engine or geranium 2, which has $ 15 thousand engine there, that is, about three times more. Accordingly, it will be necessary to strengthen
structure, slightly different equipment, ”he said.
Romanenko believes that Russians put on jet drones to reduce the effectiveness of mobile fire groups that repel the air attacks of the Russian Federation. But the reactive shahed give strong thermal radiation, which greatly increases their vulnerability for air defense, including aviation.
“We received a significant number of Western types of Western types, with Sidewinder missiles. There will be a problem with Sidewinder missiles – there are MIRAGE 2000 fighters with MICA missiles, which also have infrared guidance. They will also be able to work on this reactive shaheD,” Romanenko said.
He came to the conclusion that the Russian army to expand the UAV line with reactive drones, but it would not completely switch to them.
Context
About what The aggressor country will use jet drones against Ukraine, on July 28 warned First Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov. In his opinion, Ukraine needs to work on solving this problem and build a “multi-fucked” defense, and not rely only on the intercept drives.
As the profile portal Defense Express informed, Russians already, Perhaps used reactive drone In Ukraine. In particular, to strike in Kyiv in early June. It was about the modified reactive drone of Shahed-238 (“Gerani-3”) or another similar drone with a jet engine.
