They hide in relief: why the air defense "miss" Shahd to the west of Ukraine - Ignat (video)
The Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignati said this during an interview with the news portal "News. live". According to a spokesman for the Air Force, in the south of Ukraine, protection against drones-Kamikadze was developed, taking into account that the terrain is flat. "They seemed to be stopped because they began to work better in this direction mobile fire groups," the officer said. Meanwhile, there are some problems in the western regions related to certain restrictions in their work.
First, the radius of the target depends on the range of a large-caliber machine gun, that is-up to 2 km, was indicated by Ignatius. Secondly, the Russians use special tactics of UAV motion that fly to the relief. "Sometimes even half can be destroyed by" shahas "because they fly by a group, then divided into subgroups, then - one by one, and so fly in different directions from different directions, clinging to the ground.
Sometimes even the landscape does not allow it to see it: It seems to be buzzing, but the mobile fire group needs to be seen visually and destroy it first. " The farther into the west of Ukraine, the more Ignatius, the more hilly terrain, there are forests, hills, mountainous terrain. Therefore, "the time to detect UAVs, its support and destruction is significantly reduced.
" The officer also analyzed the situation near the city of Stryi in the Lviv region, where Russian "Shahmed" flew during one of the last shelling. Citizens "criticized" that there was "not enough fire mobile groups". Ignatus suggested paying attention to the mountainous relief of the Stryi district, reminded of the 2-kilometer range of the machine gun.
After that, he suggested that the experts calculate how many groups should be so that they "are circled and blocked the possibility of spanning these UAVs. " The officer noted that in the regions of Ukraine there is an increase in air defense forces, which are engaged in local communities. In particular, mobile fire groups are created, which buy the necessary equipment - pickups, spotlights, thermal imagers.
In addition, special systems are provided by partners: "Little by little one gives a radar, someone gives a installation, someone gives a team point. The radar, the installation of the launcher and the command point is actually a unit. " It should be noted that from November 1 to November 63, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation almost daily launched a pack of drones-Kamikadze Shahd-136 in Ukraine.
The last mass attack took place on November 6: then there were 22 enemy drones, of which 15 pcs were shot down. It was then that the Russian UAV reached Odessa: as a result of the Russian attack, the National Art Museum was damaged. On November 3, another massive shelling took place. The drones flew to the Lviv region and damaged a number of objects near the city of Stryi, Morshyn and Yavoriv.