The United States passes experimental weapons against the Drones of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Defense One

SAIC says that Ukrainians will soon receive new systems equipped with rockets, machine guns and HPs. The US Army has not officially confirmed it. The United States will send experimental weapons to combat Iranian and Chinese drones. About it reports the American edition of Defense One, referring to representatives of the state contractor SAIC. On April 4, the Pentagon announced the supply of a new package of military assistance to Ukraine on air defense.

It included mysterious weapons, which in the United States called "10 mobile missile systems with laser anti-blades. " Supply follows after a US Army Competition in January to select the SHahd-136 Iranian UAV system. The SAIC source in the Global Force Symposium Symposium told Defense One that its company should send 10 antitrone complexes mentioned to Ukraine. In January, she conducted successful tests with laser-led missiles from Bae Systems APKWS, which showed 100 percent accuracy.

The US Army and another test participant, Invariant Systems, did not confirm that the complexes should be sent to Ukraine after the trials, but confirmed other details that coincide with SAIC employees. As stated in the contracts provided by the US Armed Forces, the purpose of the trial was the destruction of third-class drones, weighing exceeding 25 kg, and ShahED-136 weighs about 220 kg.

The documents also stipulate that the winner of the competition should be ready to send weapons to the countries within 30-90 days after the signing of the agreement-about the same amount of time was between the completion of the tests and the notification of the supply of antitrone equipment to Ukraine.

According to the Vice President of the Army Business Division SAIC Greg Fortier, one shot of their new complex costs less than $ 30,000, which is much cheaper than the large air defense missiles used by Ukraine. During the tests, the system found UAV at a distance of about 10 km and struck 5 km, although the army required a range of 2 km.

System engineer Jeremy Davidon added that the complex also includes a M240 machine gun and a radio-electronic warfare system that can be controlled by a commercial drone, including any model of a popular DJI Chinese brand, not protected by enlarged enlargement. It should be noted that DJI drones are actively used in the war by both Russian and Ukrainian troops.

An expert from the US Naval Analysis Center noted that earlier the US authorities had sent only existing military technologies to Ukraine. It is probably unknown whether they delivered some experimental weapons developed from scratch. On March 30, information about the test of clogging laser air defense systems against drones in the United States appeared. The new APKWS technology from BAE Systems turns the usual 70mm rocket into "smart" ammunition that affect small battle drones.