mojofrododojoWhy aren't we seeing more gun systems vs drones?
SapphironZAIts a similar problem in the cold war aircraft. They fly low, so the time for detection, identification, targeting and shooting is quite short. The gun can shoot out to a few km, but can only see low flying targets out to a few hundred meters.
Gun systems only really work if you are defending a position targeting by the drone. Even then, you need a very large number of guns as each gun system only has an effective bubble of a few hundred meters against low flying drones.
Ukraine has been doing very well with audio based detection to give advanced warning and using man portable weapons to shoot down drones. Russian drones have since started flying higher, which then opens then up radar detection, bigger gun systems and interceptor drones.
Ukraine has been doing very well with audio based detection to give advanced warning and using man portable weapons to shoot down drones.
I wonder what would be required to detect the smaller targets at further ranges. Audio networks with large distribution might work…
Big ears
Different but the greeks when besieged were known to drive stakes of brass with a thing brass plate above ground attatched to it at intervals, then they could see the vibrations from anyone tunneling under, what do they call it, sapping, they dig under, then burn the supports and collapse a section of wall to breach the city.
One incident the greeks made a chemical weapon out of chicken feathers and chicken shit and charcoal and lit it and threw it down there after they counter tunneled into them after seeing their vibrations.
From what I understand Ukraine is using thousands of cellphones on a stick with a solar panel and external mic.
that is slick