By David Grossman
Drones are a growing presence on the battlefield together with recognizing that trend, the Russian Defense Ministry has ordered that all branches of its nation of war machine receive down grooming inward anti-drone combat. Russian paper Izvestia reports that the starting fourth dimension exam of these novel tactics came inward Oct during grooming exercises on the Black Sea. Ground forces volition every bit good receive down grooming to repel drones.
The shift inward grooming comes from the Russian military's sense inward Syria. In Jan 2018, over a dozen drones armed amongst explosives attacked a break of Russian targets inward the region. Ten drones attacked an air base of operations together with 3 of them went afterwards a naval base.
The assault was successfully repelled—Russian forces were able to shoot downwardly vii of the drones amongst antiaircraft missiles together with were able to commandeer half dozen to a greater extent than toward a condom landing. In a Facebook post documenting about of the captured drones, the Defense Ministry noted that the assault was probable launched from "a distance of close 100 kilometers."
While the assault didn't displace whatever damage, their DIY nature was notable. Built amongst pocket-sized engines together with inexpensive plywood, the drones used inward the assault represented the changing nature of war. And if the Russian nation of war machine wants to conk along amongst these types of incursions across the globe, the Defense Ministry wants them meliorate prepared.
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