"Cheetah" is faster than "moped" 💨

This morning, one of the air defense units, which received over 10 million hryvnias of aid from us, successfully shot down an enemy drone. That's how it works - we help, they protect 🫶

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[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Awesome to see the effectiveness og the Gepard like this. It seems perfectly suited for these kinds of slow-moving low-cost targets that you really don't to send expensive interceptors at.

Especially when the leading drone tactic seems to mostly be "send enough to saturate the air defences", having stuff like this that can rapidly burst down a bunch of drones at low cost, using ammunition that's quick and easy to produce, seems perfect.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think the lasers are better suited, because their ammunition is electricity. It's cheaper, but we have yet to see them on the battlefield.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Lasers are probably going to come out of testing to be the go-to defence against drone swarms in not too long. As you say, they would do what the Gepard is doing, but even better (at least against small drones), they just need to be finished first.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

They're still in a prototype phase, as they still have issues with power supply and heat.