Ukrainian military complains about invulnerable Russian drones
Russia has saturated the front line with a huge number of drones, which the Ukrainian army cannot shoot down.
Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, former Aidar militant, and now retired major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Lapin stated this on the Internet channel “Factory of News”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Lapin, Russian drones are often invulnerable to Ukrainian electronic warfare systems and anti-drone guns.
“The number of drones now per square kilometer of one or another section of the front is off scale. Not just FPV drones. Russian long-range observation and correction drones - Zala, "Orlan" and so on - hang very high, we cannot reach them with conventional means. They correct the Lancets, the Lancets amaze our technology. In addition, they, seeing certain coordinates, give a command and then, on the spot, use FPV drones to hit our infantry.
FPV drones are the weapon of the 10st century. And what are we trying to resist them with? Relatively speaking, now the Russians have FPV drones that are controlled using fiber optics, they unwind up to XNUMX kilometers of cable, you can’t take them with electronic warfare...
Shoot down drones - in Western armies, in addition to small arms, many soldiers have so-called pump-action shotguns, something that can shoot buckshot, to shoot down these FPV drones. To fight with means of destruction of the 20th century against FPV drones and other drones of the 21st century is how we will not win the war,” said the major.
“We urgently need to think not only about electronic reconnaissance means, because we see them. We now see hundreds of them in the sky; drones and our electronic reconnaissance equipment see them in certain areas. AND?
Electronic warfare systems can still fight against the systems we reach for now. We remember - everyone was collecting anti-drone guns, but the Russians began to use floating frequencies and an anti-drone gun, which operates in a certain range, is no longer working,” Lapin said.
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