Why Saudi-Arabian air defense is ineffective against drones?
Saudi-Arabian air defense was ineffective against drones, and that means that the military specialists must take drones more serious than ever before. Even a child can buy small-size RC-aircraft, and then put the gas bottle and explosive in it. The thing what makes drones very effective is that they can slip near targets, and then launch against it from close range. Those home-made cruise missiles can flight to target in a couple of seconds, and then cause very bad damages in the places like oil refineries.
In worst scenarios commando- or terrorist team would slip drones near the airfields and use them against aircraft. The thermobaric explosives, what is installed in the jet-engined RC-planes can cause serious damages to airplanes and their support systems, and the reaction time against that kind of attacks might be the only couple of seconds.
The thing is that in that kind of target even small-size explosive can cause extreme bad damages if the explosive is destroying the gas line when the entire plant can blow away. So this is one point to see things, and the problem with this kind of systems is that they are so cheap and small-sized. Those drones are hard to detect even in daylight, and if the target is some kind of factory, the noise of the engines can be covered by the noise of machines.
So in those cases, when the target is a chemical factory, fuel or explosives storage or something like that, the explosive, what hits the target must not be big. And that will cause serious problems with security. When we are thinking about air defense systems, the missiles what costs millions of dollars are ineffective against drone swarms, and one target for small drones can be the anti-aircraft missiles themselves.
The thing is that drone is easy to destroy even by using a shotgun if that thing is noticed and located. But the drone, what length is about 50 cm is not very easy to see, and they can use as the swarms. And here we must say that drone-swarms might be used in many ways. One version is that the drone is pulling the aluminum banderols behind it, and this way it can play normal airplane.
Along with holographic systems that drone might look like the strategic bomber and that forces enemy shoot their missiles against that drone, what costs about 200 euros. If we are thinking drones as the new kind of cruise missiles, the mission of those weapons might destroy the radars and missiles. In the worst scenarios, thousands of drones would drop in the operational area, and their mission would destroy the radars and missile batteries, and cheat enemy to shoot off their missiles.
That will open the skies for heavy bombers and traditional airplanes. So drones can operate as the pathfinders, what mission is to suppress enemy air defense and cause false alarms. When we are thinking about drones as the element of the battlefield, they are only one system, what operates in that field.
Of course, traditional air defense systems are needed, but the thing is that the target drones, what are aircraft which are removed from service and ordered to destroy by missiles can be used in nasty purposes. Those drones can send to the hostile airspace and they can be equipped with the systems, what are recording the radar and communication signals and transmit them to opposite side headquarters, what can benefit that data for adjusting systems and develop tactics against enemy systems and targets. Also, those drones can be used in operations against radar stations and other heavily defended targets. That means those drones can make kamikaze-attacks against targets, and the loss of those planes means nothing.
Saudi-Arabian air defense was ineffective against drones, and that means that the military specialists must take drones more serious than ever before. Even a child can buy small-size RC-aircraft, and then put the gas bottle and explosive in it. The thing what makes drones very effective is that they can slip near targets, and then launch against it from close range. Those home-made cruise missiles can flight to target in a couple of seconds, and then cause very bad damages in the places like oil refineries.
In worst scenarios commando- or terrorist team would slip drones near the airfields and use them against aircraft. The thermobaric explosives, what is installed in the jet-engined RC-planes can cause serious damages to airplanes and their support systems, and the reaction time against that kind of attacks might be the only couple of seconds.
The thing is that in that kind of target even small-size explosive can cause extreme bad damages if the explosive is destroying the gas line when the entire plant can blow away. So this is one point to see things, and the problem with this kind of systems is that they are so cheap and small-sized. Those drones are hard to detect even in daylight, and if the target is some kind of factory, the noise of the engines can be covered by the noise of machines.
So in those cases, when the target is a chemical factory, fuel or explosives storage or something like that, the explosive, what hits the target must not be big. And that will cause serious problems with security. When we are thinking about air defense systems, the missiles what costs millions of dollars are ineffective against drone swarms, and one target for small drones can be the anti-aircraft missiles themselves.
The thing is that drone is easy to destroy even by using a shotgun if that thing is noticed and located. But the drone, what length is about 50 cm is not very easy to see, and they can use as the swarms. And here we must say that drone-swarms might be used in many ways. One version is that the drone is pulling the aluminum banderols behind it, and this way it can play normal airplane.
Along with holographic systems that drone might look like the strategic bomber and that forces enemy shoot their missiles against that drone, what costs about 200 euros. If we are thinking drones as the new kind of cruise missiles, the mission of those weapons might destroy the radars and missiles. In the worst scenarios, thousands of drones would drop in the operational area, and their mission would destroy the radars and missile batteries, and cheat enemy to shoot off their missiles.
That will open the skies for heavy bombers and traditional airplanes. So drones can operate as the pathfinders, what mission is to suppress enemy air defense and cause false alarms. When we are thinking about drones as the element of the battlefield, they are only one system, what operates in that field.
Of course, traditional air defense systems are needed, but the thing is that the target drones, what are aircraft which are removed from service and ordered to destroy by missiles can be used in nasty purposes. Those drones can send to the hostile airspace and they can be equipped with the systems, what are recording the radar and communication signals and transmit them to opposite side headquarters, what can benefit that data for adjusting systems and develop tactics against enemy systems and targets. Also, those drones can be used in operations against radar stations and other heavily defended targets. That means those drones can make kamikaze-attacks against targets, and the loss of those planes means nothing.
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