The skilled emphasised that in reality, the "Shaheds" that Russia utilized in 2022 and those who we see now are fully completely different merchandise.

Russia has began attacking Ukraine with "Shahed"-type drones geared up with an air-to-air missile, in addition to "Shaheds" with a management mode that enables the operator to information the drone in a semi-automatic on-line mode at distances as much as 150 km. In a remark to UNN, Anatoliy Khrapchynsky, deputy basic director of an organization producing digital warfare gear and an aviation skilled, stated that modernized "Shaheds" are not a blind "kamikaze" guided by coordinates, however a platform that may be dropped at a goal in actual time, its route adjusted, positions bypassed, and the explosive half successfully guided on to a cell group in the meanwhile of its operation.

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Just lately, army specialist in digital warfare techniques and communications Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov reported that an R-60 air-to-air missile was present in a Russian "Shahed" for the primary time.

Later, he reported {that a} "Shahed" with on-line management attacked a cell fireplace group's car in Chernihiv Oblast. Fortuitously, everybody survived.

In a remark to UNN, Anatoliy Khrapchynsky stated that "the looks of the R-60 air-to-air missile on 'Shaheds' and the video of the assault on the cell fireplace group in Chernihiv area is a transparent logic."

The enemy is on the lookout for a single technique to cowl their assault UAVs, or shield them from aviation teams, so they’re experimenting with the R-60, or making them guided for exact strikes towards gear and cell fireplace teams. Added to that is the brand new "Shahed-107" – a variant able to working towards floor targets, and towards radar or digital warfare techniques. That’s, we see a single evolutionary line of the enemy, growing the drone's survivability, its skill to defend itself, to strike extra precisely and break our air protection and digital warfare. And that’s the reason we have to scale up our personal countermeasures as shortly as doable – from networked digital warfare and interceptors to sensor fields and short-range cell techniques, earlier than this Russian idea turns into a full-fledged fight commonplace

– stated Khrapchynsky.

He notes that the Russians managed to assault the cell fireplace group as a result of the truth that they’ve been utilizing modernized "Shaheds" for a while with a management mode that enables the operator to information the drone in a semi-automatic on-line mode at distances as much as 150 km.

That’s, it’s not a blind "kamikaze" by coordinates, however a platform that may be dropped at the goal in actual time, its route adjusted, positions bypassed, and the explosive half successfully guided on to a cell group in the meanwhile of its operation. This reveals that the enemy is transferring from mass ballistic "launches" to guided looking, and it’s exactly for such a state of affairs that we critically must replace the techniques of cell fireplace teams and their safety

– says Khrapchynsky.

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The skilled emphasised that in actuality, the "Shaheds" that Russia utilized in 2022 and people we see now are fully completely different merchandise.

Presently, the drone has gained the power to function in any climate, makes use of varied warheads and submunitions, has communication channels that enable constructing a distributed management system, adjustments or changes to the flight mission to the western areas. We add optical-electronic cameras for remark and self-defense and get not simply an assault UAV, however a platform that’s continually changing into extra advanced and adapting to our countermeasures. Forming a brand new trendy weapon

– says the skilled.

Based on him, these updates considerably complicate interception, however you will need to perceive that a lot of the enemy's actions stay predictable, which implies they are often analyzed.

Due to this fact, our job is to incorporate strategic imaginative and prescient, rigorously monitor even the smallest adjustments within the design and techniques of "Shahed" and proactively type a wider vary of countermeasures

– provides the aviation skilled.

He additionally emphasised that the looks of "Shaheds" with an air-to-air missile provides one other degree of threat.

Right here we already want to speak about early warning techniques, MAWS and thermal traps, with out which it’s harmful for an plane to function in a possible interception zone. That’s the reason it turns into apparent why using small civilian plane as a countermeasure is the unsuitable resolution: such plane have neither menace sensors, nor thermal traps, nor a safety advanced, and due to this fact grow to be a simple goal even for crude Russian experiments

– famous Khrapchynsky.

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On the identical time, in his Telegram channel, the skilled emphasizes that the wreckage of the "Shahed" nonetheless reveals the APU-60 pylon (aviation launch system – ed.). Based on him, the issue is that the APU-60 works solely in a single mode: the missile should freely slide down, transfer away by a number of tens of centimeters, and solely after that does the engine activate. If the launch system is put in above the drone's physique, as on this case, no launch will happen in any respect.

The missile can not fall down as a result of the "Shahed" physique is underneath it, it can not "slide ahead" as a result of the APU-60 doesn’t have a catapult mechanism. In such a configuration, the R-60 is just blocked and can by no means go away the pylon. However the primary factor isn’t even that. The AKU-60, which had a catapult launch and theoretically may have offered a secure ejection of the R-60 from the provider, nevertheless it (AKU-60) by no means went into manufacturing and was virtually by no means used. Moreover, the "Shahed" is mostly a light-weight composite glider: even when they pressured the R-60 to activate the engine, the jet of the solid-propellant rocket engine would merely burn out the drone's physique, destroying the provider and the missile itself on the identical second

– writes the skilled.

Moreover, he notes that the acknowledged vary of the R-60 isn’t 10 km:

• 3–4 km – for a reactive maneuvering goal within the rear hemisphere;
• as much as 5 km – for a non-maneuvering or gradual goal (propeller plane);
• 1–2 km – within the frontal hemisphere (the homing head virtually doesn’t "see" the thermal spot).

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