Anti-drone technologies and tactics

GTX said:
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Russia Testing Shotgun-Armed Yak-52 Trainer Aircraft To Down Ukrainian Drones

WWI-style air combat tactics applied to the drone problem have been proven by Ukraine and are now being adopted in Russia, but using shotguns is questionable. The World War One-style air combat tactics have already been proven by Ukraine and are now being adopted in Russia.
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Did some browsing of Telegram , from what i can tell.

Its a civilian project by some enthusiasts to protect civilian infrastructure ,they wanted to mount machineguns ,but authorities only permitted the use civilian legal shotguns so they do not kill anyone on the ground.
 
Mr.T said:
Did some browsing of Telegram , from what i can tell.

Its a civilian project by some enthusiasts to protect civilian infrastructure ,they wanted to mount machineguns ,but authorities only permitted the use civilian legal shotguns so they do not kill anyone on the ground.
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There’s footage of it flying.

Very interesting concept indeed.
 
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There were even some used to protect Moscow parade

Seems rather straight forward concept , altough speed of the drone leaves lot to be desired .
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Big_Zukini said:
IDF reforms the 946th air defense battalion as part of the 91st division. It is a maneuvering battalion with C-UAS weaponry. This makes it the first dedicated maneuvering anti air unit after disbanding the last one about 2 decades ago.
They're not revealing the interceptors and effectors though.
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So it turns out they're using the Lite Beam laser system.
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Israel's Iron Beam has downed drones for the first time.

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Israel's Iron Beam Laser Air Defense System Has Downed Enemy Drones

The high-power laser is the latest addition to Israel’s densely-layered air and missile defense array. The high-power laser is the latest addition to Israel’s multi-layered air defense array and has reportedly been used in combat.
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From NDIA 2025 MES, intriguing to see SMAC-D still in the plan. BADGER is a prox fused 25mm to give Bradleys more anti drone power, MMPA probably already well known by know. Coupling SMAC-D with PGS and SMART SMASH sights (if Army inc hasn't fund a local competitor yet) will yield a potent small unit C-UAS solution combined with investments into manpack jammers.
 
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Killing drones is the most important military topic today - of equal importance to defeating entrenched defenders in WW1. I am somewhat surprised there isn't more effort into different methods.
 
jeffb said:
Not sure if this is serious or not and frankly it'd make moving around on top of the tank an OH&S nightmare.
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since every idea under the blue sky is being tried out. I have a simple yet i believe effective method they can try too...

Weed whackers. Mount a bunch of weed whackers around, put the fear of twirling plastic into the hearts of every FPV drone operator!
 
Well if you look around the globe cope cages are appearing everywhere and in Ukraine once naked western tanks are beginning to resemble Russian ones with grills all over .


Till MRAPs these kind of contraptions were being used in Iraq ,and Iraq was practicaly zero threat leisure cruise compared to war in Ukraine.

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Combat-Master said:
since every idea under the blue sky is being tried out. I have a simple yet i believe effective method they can try too...

Weed whackers. Mount a bunch of weed whackers around, put the fear of twirling plastic into the hearts of every FPV drone operator!
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Someone already patented this , huge weed whackers allround


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Love that they've put them on a UAZ-452 bukhanka as well, although the doors on this side all appear to be hinged so not sure how you're supposed to get in or out. Brilliant, but as Orion points out, forcing the FPV drone to detonate two feet away instead of in direct contact is probably of limited utility.

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Its a joke ,no one actualy built one as far as i know.
US does not have an exclusive on stupid patents altough the lead on outright idiotic stuff patented is such that you can't expect anyone to catch up anytime soon.
 
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Someone already patented this , huge weed whackers allround


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The idea can still be saved:
1. Add armor to resist frag
2. Instead of standard spinners, make them fans. When the drone gets close, blow the drone away! (or at least produce enough turbulence to be targeting via directional warhead difficult)

(hmm, maybe this justifies a NCD post)
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Frankly I was toying with nets connected with moveable mechanisms and fans to produce one way passage for drones, so that you can have tunnels (built out of trees/existing buildings if available) where your own drones can pass through but not that of the opponent.
 
Here’s an idea.
Convert light houses into anti-drone laser stations for homeland defense.

Being stationary large facilities, very high powered lasers can be used.
Being lasers and not guns or missiles investment into securing the sites is much less of a concern.

If nothing else it forces a potential drone attack from sea or even sea/surface skimming missile attack to be more carefully planned out if they want good chances at success.
 

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