Lyudmila Zhernovskaya23:38, 03/05/24
In the evening, Russia launched unmanned aerial vehicles across Ukraine ; the military recorded several groups of drones in different regions.
The alarm has been declared in Sumy, Poltava, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolaev and Odessa regions. Public reports that explosions have already occurred twice in Odessa.
(C)UNIAN 2024
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I don’t understand why it isn’t possible to shoot down such drones more effectively, with acoustical and optical/thermal recognition attached to machine gun posts. Is Nato leaving Ukraine alone with this problem? It should be in the West’s own best interests to find a sokution. And with computing power being cheap, in the form of Raspberry and the like, mass production at low costs should be possible. What’s the effing problem? 😠
Mr. Gray, I think that problem is the West lacks leaders who are proactive, and they have next to no foresight. They see a problem yet do nothing about it until it threatens to explode. Pardon the pun. Look at the immigration crisis. Look at the border crisis in Poland. See their reaction to the Crimea theft and the wars in Chechnya, Georgia, and Donbas. Look at Hungary and Turkey. Look at everything Europe ever gets confronted with.
And then there’s the bureaucracy…
Yup, I’m afraid you’re right, Mr. Ofp. But, damn, is that fruststrating! What a mad mad world! 😠
The systems are already out there. Germany the US and Israel are all making laser air defence systems. One shot costs $1, so very cheap to operate. The cost of the units will not be cheap though.
Too expensive to purchase and too complex for mass production. What Ukraine needs instead is a cheap way of detecting and shooting down drones that can be produced in huge numbers in a short time. There’s an anti-drone program at United24 and there was a report about a sound detection network, but it doesn’t look as if there’s a working system in place yet. Nato should offer help to get it done.