ANALYSIS OF WAYS TO COUNTER LOW-SPEED, LOW-ALTITUDE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17721/2519-481X/2024/85-04Keywords:
unmanned aerial vehicle, means of destruction, anti-aircraft missile systems, fragmentation munitions, fragmentation effect, fragmentation explosive device of directed action, electronic warfareAbstract
According to the experience of modern warfare, there is a tendency to increase the number of unmanned aerial vehicles used to destroy equipment, personnel and various objects. Losses of weapons, military equipment and personnel from such weapons have become the largest in comparison with other means of destruction.
To counteract such weapons, various anti-aircraft missile systems, electronic warfare equipment, and mobile fire groups are used. The most problematic issue for destruction means is the destruction of low-speed, low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles due to their design features and wide range of applications. The main ways of countering such means are radio-electronic jamming, energy weapons and physical destruction.
The article analyses the ways of counteracting low-speed, low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles and presents the main factors that affect the defeat of these air targets. The article describes the procedure for neutralising UAVs by means of electronic jamming, and considers the issues of defeating them with energy weapons. The article analyses the use of destruction means such as anti-aircraft guided missiles, high-explosive fragmentation and high-explosive incendiary anti-aircraft shells, fragmentation ammunition of various types, their advantages and weaknesses.
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