Do not possess accuracy: air defense systems in Russia proved to be powerless against drones

Petersburg Electric University, Sergei Makarenko, who analyzes the presence and efficiency of existing Russian air defense systems, such as "shell-C1", "Tunguska", "Thor" and "Arrow-10". At the end of the analysis, Makarenko concluded that all this technique is unable to cope with small drones. The problem is that Russian air defense systems do not have sufficient accuracy and ability to detect drones at a fairly long distance.

Russian tactical radars are used to detect fast flying aircraft, not small goals that are slowly moving, such as drones. As a result, the drone can be almost imperceptible to the air defense system and attack it. According to the report, a large number of ammunition is needed to kill a small drone, which makes this process ineffective. For example, in order to achieve a conditional probability of damage to a target equal to 0.

5, during firing on mini -bipiltes of type "aquila" at a distance of 3 km, it is necessary to spend from 4 to 13 thousand shells. Makarenko's research also covers the collision of Russian air defense systems with drones in Libya, Syria and Nagorno -Karabas, where Russian systems did not produce positive results.

In these cases, they did not cope with the task of lesions of drones, which was associated with errors accompanied by purposes, imperfection of the explosive management system and mistakes when speaking. According to the media, the situation can deteriorate for Russia because Ukraine is actively developing its drones and already has UAVs, capable of striking Russian troops without the participation of a man-operator.

Russian troops tried to develop methods of counteraction, including the use of radio interference and other means, but these experiments did not produce good results. "The practical experience of experimental firing for low -size purposes indicates the low efficiency of their destruction. The main causes of this are the imperfection of the SPR detonation system, as well as major errors accompanied by the purposes and giving the SAC to the UDC," said Sergei Makarenko.

In addition, the professor also mentions the case when the tests in 2020 of the four "shells" opened a fire on a drone that was slowly moving, but could not destroy it, despite numerous volley. According to the media material, further improvement of Russian air defense systems, which can be stretched over time, is required to solve this problem. We will remind, a little earlier the Ukrainian military told when drones would exceed artillery in the war with Russia.