Ukraine will speed up the placement of anti-drone nets over roads in frontline areas, aiming to cover 4,000km of roads by the end of this year, the defence minister has said. A growing number of nets have been installed over the past year but more were needed, Mykhailo Fedorov said, adding that an additional 1.6bn hryvnias ($37m) had been allocated from the budget to bolster protection measures and counter Russian drones. Moscow has been targeting military supply routes and rear bases deeper and deeper into Ukraine with the remotely piloted aircraft and drones have also struck hospitals, infrastructure and civilian traffic. Nets can snag propellers and prevent drones from reaching their targets. “In just one month, we increased the speed [of coverage] from 5km per day in January to 12km in February,” Fedorov said on Telegram on Wednesday. “This significantly improved the safety of military movements and ensured stable functioning of frontline communities. In March, we plan to close 20km of roads per day.”
Russian strikes in multiple Ukrainian cities wounded 23 people including a child, officials said on Thursday, before US-Ukraine talks in Geneva aimed at ending Russia’s war. The Ukrainian air force reported high-speed targets heading towards the capital shortly before Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said Russia was striking the city with drones and ballistic missiles. Kyiv police said debris caused fires and damage in three districts. In the north-eastern city of Kharkiv and a nearby village, 14 people were wounded, among them a seven-year-old boy, said the regional chief, Oleg Synegubov. Towards the south, Zaporizhzhia also came under heavy fire, with regional head Ivan Fedorov saying seven people were wounded after strikes damaged 19 apartment blocks, four houses and other buildings. In the central city of Kryvyi Rig, two people were wounded, regional chief Oleksandr Ganzha said.
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incredible. after the entire drone innovation weapons race, nets turn out to be most effective.
looking forward to seeing nuclear aircraft carriers equipped with circus-tent sized misquote nets.
incredible. after the entire drone innovation weapons race, nets turn out to be most effective.
Simple barbed wire was so effective in WWI that it sparked the invention of the tank.
Where are the times when everybody laughed at Russians for doing that. I wonder how effective are really those nets - seen (Russian) drones dropping napalm (or something similar) on them.
That was mainly when Russian equipment was getting mesh fitted directly to its outside instead of cheap netting being placed over roads. If you fit an anti-drone cage to something, it only moves the explosion about a foot further away, which often isn’t enough to make a meaningful difference to survivability. If you make the cage bigger, your vehicle stops fitting though gaps, so that’s not practical. Covering a road can keep the explosion metres away, though, and protects everything using the road rather than just the one vehicle.
Not really, I vividly remember laughing at both concepts - vehicles and roads. Only to copy both later. And I think you’re wrong about cages not helping much - they do, armor piercing munition is ineffective when it explodes before touching armor. But the concern is with nets covering roads as they are fire prone. I guess they help plenty otherwise.
Armour piercing shaped charges are more sensitive to the direction they hit at than to the distance, so they’re unsuitable for use on drones because you’re rarely, if ever, going to line them up just right, and armour piercing squash head munitions need to be going fast enough that they squash against the armour they’re trying to pierce before detonation, so need to be carried by something much faster than a drone. Suicide drones just have a lump of explosive as heavy as they can carry, and being 30cm further away from a simple explosion rarely stops it ruining your day.
You’ve linked an article about a tank with an anti-drone cage being defeated, so even if it does point out that there are situations where a shaped charge can be made to work on a drone, it doesn’t support the original claim that shaped charges can be protected against by a small anti-drone cage.
I usually do not open certain nazi social network, so I didn’t see. However, what is that over the top of the tanks is not visible enough - perhaps it’s only against top down attacks (such as Javelins usually do) or poorly built.
