From the Far Perimeter to the "Last Ring": How will the echelorated air defense in Ukraine will work
According to him, priority is the sharp increase in crews of interceptors, preparation of more operators and strengthening the means of detection and damage to drones. It is decided to continue the selection and acquisition of teams, to form new staff units and to eliminate the existing shortcomings in the work of the interceptors. Echelorated air defense are several levels (echelons) that cover the sky at different distances and heights.
If the target is not destroyed on the outer perimeter, it is intercepted by the next level - up to the "last border" above the city/object. This approach minimizes breakthroughs and increases the resistance of defense. The Echelorated Shahhedam Countering System includes: President of the Ukrainian Aviation Association of Pilots and AOPA Ukraine Aircraft Owners, Aviation Expert Gennady Khazan says that the idea is simple: there is no universal weapon against Russian strike UAVs.
Therefore, an echelorated system is needed - coordinated work of different means at different stages of the drone route: from distant approaches to "last border" over cities and critical infrastructure. He ironically calls it "finally": they say, we finally depart from the illusion of one miracle solution (for example, only drones-interceptors) and proceed to the systemic combination of everything we have.
"It is about the entire range of weapons of the Defense Forces of Ukraine (especially the Air Force forces), which should be clearly systematized and applied depending on the area of the airspace and the specific task. The list includes: key thought: not to replace the system with one tool, but to ensure their coordinated work, and the perhaps. Hazan. According to the expert, all of these means in Ukraine are already used, but in some places it happens unsystematic.
The decision of the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces is to collect everything in a single logic and build a full -fledged echelorated defense: at each stage of the entrance of UAV into Ukraine the airspace of Ukraine should work their profile means of defeat and HR. This is, according to Hazana, the right tactics. By careful formulation, the armed forces have already begun to be implemented.
"According to the current estimates, there are no" dead zones ": certain elements of air defense are present throughout the country. Ukraine is now almost blocked: even in mountainous areas, the air defense systems are deployed, which from time to time are used against air facilities that are heading towards Transcarpathia," the expert says.
As a result, echelorated defense is not a "super -weapon", but the organization and synchronization of existing capabilities: from machine guns and artillery to HR, aviation and antitrones. "In the end, it is about a system that at every defense ring increases the chances of stable knocking out" Shahda "all over Ukraine," Hazan sums up. Earlier, Focus told why Russia has changed the time of attacks in Ukraine - now Shahda is launched in the morning.