Defeat of the scarce Ukrainian multi-band electronic countermeasure system for UAV command and telemetry control channels and video transmission channels "Nota" ("Нота") by the Х-БПЛА transonic tactical missile in the Kursk region. The system is distinguished by the use of a group of antennas with a narrow directional pattern, forming high-energy narrow jamming beams, effective within a radius of 15 km.

The complex also has a passive radio interferometric direction finder for electronic reconnaissance and drone detection using video transmission modules operating on radio spectrum.

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The enemy's attack UAV squadrons are being armed with the promising low-observable loitering drone Stick M12, developed by the Ukrainian company United Military Solutions.

Characteristics of the Stick M12 loitering munition:

- flight range: up to 70 km.
- duration of stay in the air: more than an hour.

The strike drone, manufactured with extensive use of composite materials, is equipped with one electric motor in the rear part, while the warhead of the cumulative or high-explosive type is located in the front part. The effective reflective surface of the product can be 0.01-0.02 sq. m.

The Stick M12 UAV is equipped with a multispectral optical-electronic guidance system based on a combined TV/IR seeker with interference-protected command and telemetry channels and a video transmission channel.

The drone's equipment is located in the front part of the fuselage. The Stick M12 is designed to destroy shelters, infantry and armored vehicles.

In June 2024, the 100th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received 10 such drones, for the moment, small numbers.

It is worth noting that the 9M333 anti-aircraft missiles of the Strela-10M3/MN air defense missile system will be able to intercept the UAV very effectively.
As is known, these SAMs are equipped with combined three-range optical-electronic homing heads with a photocontrast sensor, where the latter ensures the ability to effectively capture optical-contrast objects regardless of the RCS and infrared signature.
The Pantsir-S1 and Tor-M2 air defense missile and gun systems will also be able to effectively work against these drones at a distance of about 8 km.

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During massive raids by kamikaze UAVs on strategically importan hubs in the rear areas of Ukraine, promising and less expensive Gerbera drones from the M.F. Gastello Design Bureau are increasingly being used.

Much smaller weight and dimensions (length of the airframe is about 1200 mm and takeoff weight is about 10 kg) in combination with the wide use of composite materials in the airframe architecture provide the products with an effective reflective surface of about 0.03-0.01 sq. m, minimizing the detection range by means of radars and TRML-4D control center of IRIS-T SLM systems to 17-15 km.

Also, in difficult weather conditions, when thermal imaging guidance systems cannot be effectively used, the detection range of the Gerbera is significantly reduced by German Skynex anti-aircraft artillery guidance radars equipped with AHEAD programmable munitions (infographics in image No. 2).

Also, for use in false target mode, Gerbera drones can be equipped with Luneberg lenses (photo No. 1) with various electrodynamic parameters, providing imitation of a wide range of kamikaze UAVs.

However, Gerbera drones are not capable of simulating the Kh-101 strategic cruise missiles and the Kh-69 tactical cruise missiles, since their flight speed is limited to 220-250 km/h, while the speed of the above-mentioned missiles varies in the range from 0.65 to 0.95 M.

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Another throw of a machine gun at a drone saves the lives of the stormtroopers.

The paratroopers riding on a BMP-3 tried to shoot down the FPV drone with small arms fire, but the confrontation was ended by a well-timed throw of an AKMS towards the flying threat.

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I forgot to comment that the Ukrainians, inspecting the wreckage of the S-70 destroyed by the Su-57, discovered the nose cone of the gliding munition (УМПБ) Д-30СН, which indicates that the Su-57 pilot, as part of the reconnaissance and attack "tandem" "Su-57 - S-70B", controlling the Okhotnik-B via a secure network-centric command and telemetry channel the С-111-Н communications complex, was going to launch the weapon from the S-70B's internal fuselage hardpoint using the Su-57's target designation.
Thus, the S-70B is being tested as an "unmanned wingman" in air-to-surface operations.
It is also known that the Su-57 pilot can transmit air target tracking files to the S-70B UAV's weapons control system via an asynchronous data exchange line, which will provide the ability to conduct long-range air combat with enemy aircraft without entering the range of the AIM-120D AMRAAM air-to-air missile.

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The use of the Ka-52M reconnaissance and attack helicopter over the Kaluga Region for a low-altitude interception of the Ukrainian PD-2 kamikaze UAV using the 9M342 Igla-V short-range air-to-air missile (as part of the "Стрелец" complex) with a dual-band short/medium-wave (1.8-3 μm and 3.5- μm) infrared seeker and a range of 5.5-7.5 km (depending on the launch altitude) indicates the beginning of positive shifts in the vision of the Russian Aerospace Forces command in general and army aviation in particular of the concept of forming a low-altitude air defense contour adapted to countering massive strikes by kamikaze UAVs, as well as local strikes using R-360MD Neptune-MD tactical cruise missiles.

Guidance of the scanning "cone" of the 9Э435 infrared homing head onto the heat-contrasting casing of an internal combustion engine or the flare of a turbojet engine of a drone or cruise missile can be accomplished by changing the pitch and yaw angles of the vehicle based on the data from the head-up display (HUD), the "Резец" onboard radar, or the ГОЭС-451М multispectral optical-electronic sighting system.

The maximum speed of targets hit by the Igla-V missile system reaches 1.500km/h with a range of capturing the flare of the turbojet engine of the Neptune-MD cruise missile at a distance of 3.5–3 km and the turbojet engine of the Palyanitsa UAV at a distance of 2.5–2 km.

Technically, it is possible to capture heat-contrast targets on a trajectory at a distance of 5+ km, when the heat-contrast object is recorded only by the thermal imaging channel of the GOES-451M optical-electronic module.

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Interesting footage of an Israeli AH-64A Peten reconnaissance and attack helicopter intercepting a Hezbollah kamikaze UAV using the 30mm M230 automatic cannon with a rate of fire of 650 rounds/min and an initial velocity of 805 m/s.

The ammunition load of this gun also includes M789 armor-piercing shells with armor penetration of 51 mm. It is obvious that Hel Haavir formed several links of low-altitude UAV interception similar to the links of interception based on Mi-28N/NM and Ka-52M in the Russian Aerospace Forces.

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A demonstrator of a promising self-propelled electromagnetic microwave system for suppressing small-sized FPV drones, as well as low/medium-range reconnaissance UAVs and kamikaze UAVs, was presented by one of the Chinese manufacturers as part of the Chinese exposition on the sidelines of the Airshow China - 2024 exhibition in Zhuhai.

The product is based on the chassis of the Shaanxi HMV3 tactical truck and is represented by a multi-element high-energy and multi-band AESA radar, presumably X/Ku-band waves, capable of detecting drones, and then switching individual groups/arrays of gallium nitride microwave transistors to a high-energy radiation mode with a beam width of less than 1-0.5 degrees in the direction of the enemy UAV.

At distances of less than 10-7 km, this complex is capable of "burning out" the electronic base of drones with high-energy EM rays. It can also disable the onboard electronic equipment of enemy tactical and strategic cruise missiles.

At distances from 10 to 50-70 km, the receiving paths the onboard X-band AESA radars of enemy tactical aviation can be suppressed with a partial (about 50%) reduction in their range. Onboard radars based on passive phased arrays with lower interference immunity can lose up to 70-80% of their effective range at a distance of up to 50-70 km.

This complex is a more advanced embodiment of the concept of the Russian self-propelled generator "Ранец-Е"

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The crashed kamikaze drone "Geran-2" with a 50 kg thermobaric warhead ТББЧ-50М.

"Geraniums" with thermobaric warheads have been observed since December 2023.

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Helicopter-type UAVs "Termit" ("Термит") from the Kalashnikov Group in counteraction to the "kamikaze" drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Let's look at one of the promising unmanned platforms capable of minimizing massive strikes by kamikaze drones on our military and energy infrastructure.

In this case, we are talking about the Termit UAV with the laser guided S-8L missile from the Kalashnikov and Kronstadt groups of companies, which are capable of mitigatingthe problem of raids by long-range drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the rear warehouses and bases of the Russian Forces.
The Kronstadt company announced the start of serial production of Termit drones in 2023. The number of UAVs of this type delivered to combat units is not reported, but their potential is already partially known to us from the official information announced by the company.

Thus, even during the design stage, the main range of tasks assigned to the МДП-01 "Термит" helicopter-type reconnaissance and attack UAV provided for precision strikes with the 80mm S-8L guided missiles at an operational depth of 70-230+ km (depending on the number and power of the transmitters of the signal for the UAV).
The vehicles can also operate in the enemy's near rear and reach the firing line in a low-altitude mode, minimizing the probability of detection by the enemy radars.

However, using the example of the American APKWS-II guided missiles (also equipped with semi-active laser homing heads) as part of the L3Harris "Vampire" tactical missile systems, we see that the semi-active laser homing heads of the domestic S-8L missiles can also successfully capture laser marks held by the laser rangefinders of the Termits on enemy UAVsof the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including such as the "Lyuty" and the A-22 Foxbat.

And given the fact that the Termit rotary-wing UAVs are equipped with advanced optical-electronic systems with thermal imaging channels, the task of detecting drones such as the A-22 (which attacked Kaspiysk some days ago) by the IR radiation of their engines will be easy.
All that remains is to iluminate the targets so the semi-active laser heads of the S-8L guided missiles follow it.
At the same time, one Termit is equipped with 3x S-8L guided missiles, which means that a squadron of these rotary-wing UAVs is capable of intercepting up to 36 kamikaze drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacking an oil refinery or a military base.
This is a much more economically feasible solution than chasing them with Ka-52M or Mi-28N.
What is even more interesting is that the integration of Igla-V air-to-air missiles into the arsenals of drones. Their dual-band infrared homing heads will not require illumination at all, but will only require precise guidance to a heat-contrast target by controlling the Termit in pitch and yaw.

The number of lighter Igla-V missiles placed on the pylons of each Termit can reach 5-6 units. Consequently, just one squadron will be able to deal with at least 60-72 enemy kamikaze UAVs.
As is known, the maximum flight speed of the Termit helicopter-type UAV can reach 160 km/h, which will be quite enough to intercept slow drones such as the Lyuty or PD-2 on pursuit courses.

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No less of a threat is posed by the relatively inexpensive and mass-produced kamikaze jet UAVs “Palyanitsa” ("Паляница") with a range of up to 700-800 km, the use of which together with the “Lyuty” ("Лютый") drones led to the destruction of a number of ammunition depots in open areas in the European part of Russia over the past six months.

Today, the Russian Anti-Aircraft Missile Forces have begun reconfiguring their radar circuit by integrating a larger number of 40V6MD ("40В6МД") low-altitude detection towers into the S-300PM2 and S-400 air defense missile systems, as well as by deploying Pantsir-S1/SM systems and the Tor-M2KM air defense missile systems on erected truss towers to cover low-altitude "blind spots" above the terrain curves.
This step will partially counter enemy attacks, but will not resolve the issue of eliminating enemy missile production lines in the rear areas of Ukraine.
The final suppression of the enemy's strike potential can only be achieved by completely blocking the influx of western material resources into the territory of the country, including equipment and components for the production of missile weapons. Without a large-scale offensive operation in the western regions of Ukraine, it is not possible to completely disable the enemy's military-industrial complex.

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