How they detect Iranian drones from a few kilometers |
These kamikaze drones often fly in groups rather than singly
Russia Iran does not confirm that it uses drones. There is no question of him confirming that he lost them in battle. Tehran also does not admit that it sent drones to Moscow.
However Russia army regularly uses these drones in battles. “Shahed-136” drones are often shot down in Ukraine. Local residents already Iran Other drones from the sounds of drones weather they learned to separate from their cars. “Currenttime.tv”, a joint project of RFE/RL and Voice of America, writes about it.
Moscow, with the help of “Shahed-136” in Belaya Tserkov, Odessa, Kharkiv, hit targets in Nikolayev and Zaporozhye. However, on the remains of the drones, the inscription “Geran-2” can be seen in Cyrillic letters. “Shahed-136” is called by this name in the Russian army.
These drones can independently travel hundreds of kilometers, perhaps even over a thousand kilometers. They are equipped with special antennas. These antennas can effectively protect drones from radio electronic countermeasures. There is not much accurate information about “Shahed-136”. Because the conversation is official factory it does not go from the cars produced.
“These are primitive machines. They are made “underground”, semi-artisanal. It should be understood that these “Flag“s and all kinds of American, Israeli drones are not stamped machines on conveyors”, – he said Armed Forces of Ukraine representative of the command Yuri Ignat explains.
“Shahed-136” is relatively cheap due to its simplicity. It’s a kamikaze drone that only flies in one direction. This drone does not have expensive cameras and the ability to communicate with an operator on the ground. They simply enter the coordinates into “Shahed-136” and send it to the target. he of the day can fly at any time. However Iran to maximize the drone’s effectiveness, they often launch it at dusk or at night.
However Ukraine Weather Fighters of the Air Defense Forces can hear the sound of “Shahed-136” even in the dark from a distance of several kilometers. It has a two-stroke engine like a motorboat, lawnmower or moped. Ukraine The fighters of the armed forces gave it the name “moped”. These kamikaze drones often fly in groups rather than singly.
Its engine is Java. [mopedinin] like an engine. It is built in such a way that it is possible to determine how many kilometers away it is before it reaches your head. This is our advice to the military. Second, they cannot fly as high and as fast. They can be destroyed even with certain firearms. Thirdly, the amount of explosive substance in them is so high that it is not rational for them to deal with the destruction of personnel. – Commander of the offensive unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Magyar he says.
“Shahed-136” is sent mainly on large static targets. Expensive to say the least military equipment, often on buildings. “We felt that the enemy is trying to save its cruise missiles and missiles of different calibers and different types. Because those “witnesses” we are talking about are, first of all, much cheaper and therefore from them [digər silahlardan] much more can be used. the enemy can launch several of these drones at once during an attack, we have seen that,” – Odessa province military representative of the administration Sergey Bratchuk speaks.
Over the last few weeks Armed Forces of Ukraine they regularly report on the shooting down of “Shahed-136” drones in the air. Artillerymen can shoot them with anti-aircraft missiles, weather intelligence fighters and pilots. It is clear that Iranian drones cannot be considered completely strong against air defense forces. The President of Ukraine is Volodymyr Zelensky its regular video in one of his appeals Russia applied to the management in Russian.
Zelensky believes that drones do not change the course of the war: “I tell the invaders. Even if you find somewhere else in the world a weapon with a name that sounds as natural as Iran’s “witnesses” for the “Russian world” to bomb our cities like Belaya Tserkov (White Church), it will not help you at all.”
It seems that Russia will have to look for alternative drones to Shahed-136. According to the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Iran is not able to ensure the assembly of this type of drones by the conveyor method. According to the assessment of the agency’s employees, Iran has transferred several hundred kamikaze drones to Russia.
Russia started occupying Ukraine on February 24.