When will a so-called ally of Ukraine provide offensive weapons? Ukraine knows what it needs. It has been asking since 2014 when the demon Russian occupier sent their little green men into Crimea. Are the multiple "Security Cooperation Agreements" strictly for defensive materiel?
Missing from the list is the best defense: destroy the manufacturing sources of the munitions and launch platforms
That’s so true!
“Kill the archer”
This is excellent Olena, thank you for this 👍
I hope that someday Ukraine will be working closely with Canada to rebuild our military🇨🇦🇺🇦💙💛
Thank you for an excellent article. Will share and recommend.
I wish people especially scientists and that is my original calling, would invent solutions to peace not more war machine.
These are like those buzz bombs of Hitler over England in World War Two 💔🇺🇦
When will a so-called ally of Ukraine provide offensive weapons? Ukraine knows what it needs. It has been asking since 2014 when the demon Russian occupier sent their little green men into Crimea. Are the multiple "Security Cooperation Agreements" strictly for defensive materiel?
I wonder what fireworks would do to those drones. Disrupt them? Cause them to explode?
Please ask your knowledgeable engineers to consider fireworks as a cheap option.
My brain dump on Reducing the Shaheds
Options for cheap destruction
The Shahed
Delta wing made of fibreglass, possibly with carbon fibre
Turbojet or turboprop engine
Attacking the Wing - Outline
WW2 balloons prevented dive bombing by multiple cable that would cut an aircrafts wings wings
Shaheds fly at c 500kmh with a fragile and flammable wing material.
Aim is to use a ‘cheese wire’ to slice off, or at least into, the wing bringing the Shahed down where it can do minimal harm
Suggested wire is Razor wire used in security installations
Delivery by suspending it from a Gyrocopter drone to allow longes loitering.
Attacking the Wing - Cheese wire
The wings of the Shahed are fibreglass or carbon fibre.
There are no struts or metallic parts needed to support them
At usual delivery speed any solid item will materially impact but a thin, strong, vertical steel wire would slice through.
The wire would deform and wrap itself around the wing structure causing flight instability
The winds would cause it to vibrate enhancing the cutting action
5m is long enough as well to allow it, folded double, to reach and damage the propeller
Attacking the Wing - delivery
Ideally a curtain of wires would be put in the path of the incoming Shaheds
Incoming Shaheds are already tracked from source and their path to a city can be identified early on.
Dispersion is not wide
Need a loitering drone cloud each with 3-4 hours minimum flight time carrying or dragging a 50m wire
Need to be able to shift location at medium speed
Using a Gyrocopter based drone allows for the long dwell time and stability required
Attacking the Wing - Gyrocopters
Reasonable dwell time
Good at all weather
Example 1 – TF-G1
Can carry 5kg – 6m of razor wire
Use a thin thread to hold the wire to the drone so that it will break when encountering a target
Attacking the Wing - Coverage
Need a fleet of drones to cover a width and height
Attacking the Engine - Outline
Sycamore seeds use a simple wing and counterweight to disperse and drift slowly to the ground
Turboprop engines are vulnerable to small objects taken in through the air intakes
Create artificial plastic wings counterbalanced with a 3-5mm ball bearing modelled on a sycamore seed
Use a canister the size of a drinks can that is lightly held together to hold c100
Drop from a drone ahead of incoming Shahed
Ask Canada how their engines have helped Iran and Russia.
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