To my understanding these are good against artillery equivalent drones, but not the low flying and lingering anti-tank drones described in the article.
If drones cost EUR 10k - 50k, then you can get over 200 to 1000 units for that money.
Will it be able to stop several hundred drones coming at it?
It will probably be guarding something that’s worth another couple 10M, like a tank platoon.
I’m sure that these will have many good uses. In many cases you can be sure that you won’t be facing huge drone swarms. But for large scale warfare, we really need some new ideas.
Also: This has been in development since 2018 and is still not rolled out. There’s another issue raised in the article.
Is there still a drone threat if one of these canons is close-by?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyranger_30
To my understanding these are good against artillery equivalent drones, but not the low flying and lingering anti-tank drones described in the article.
These are estimated to cost EUR 12M per unit.
If drones cost EUR 10k - 50k, then you can get over 200 to 1000 units for that money.
Will it be able to stop several hundred drones coming at it?
It will probably be guarding something that’s worth another couple 10M, like a tank platoon.
I’m sure that these will have many good uses. In many cases you can be sure that you won’t be facing huge drone swarms. But for large scale warfare, we really need some new ideas.
Also: This has been in development since 2018 and is still not rolled out. There’s another issue raised in the article.