Drones are deadly weapons.

 

The Ukrainian war shows how effective tool drone is. The Russian air defense could destroy all Beyraktar drones. But before that, the Bayraktars terminated lots of Russian equipment and men. So the efficiency of those drones is good. 

Another name for loitering ammunition or kamikaze drones is cruise missiles. The problem is that almost anybody can make the kamikaze drone at home. Basically kamikaze drone is an RC airplane that carries explosives. 

There are also anti-tank versions of those loitering ammunition. Those versions are just artillery recon drones or target drones equipped with suitable warheads. 

And even if Russian air defense destroyed them.  Those drones played a big role at the beginning of the war. Today we see how effective cheap Iranian drones are against fixed Ukrainian targets.

Lucky for Ukraine, Shahed-136 drones are very primitive. They can fly by using fixed routes. And they don't even change altitudes. 

Shahed-136 cannot make any escape and evasion movements. So when that drone is located. It's quite easy to shoot down. 

And even if Ukrainian air defense shoots most of those slow drones. A couple of them are reaching targets. This is the key element in drone operation, lots of cheap drones can send at the same time, against multiple targets. The maximum speed of those drones is about 150 km/h. Even if those drones are easy to reach by using a car or combat helicopter. And they are easy to destroy. 

A large number of those loitering ammunition guarantees that some of them reach the target. Drones are like all other aircraft. They are hard to see but easy to destroy if the ammunition hits them. The new anti-aircraft missiles are effective against drones. But the problem is that they must see drones before they can be used. 

The price of effective missiles like Patriot is 3 million per shot. Their target price is less than 3000 dollars. The number of lost drones in missions in 2020 was 24. And it increased. But then. The high command can accept the loss of 24 drones because no friendly crews were dangered. 

The low price of the GPS systems means that the cheap mobile telephone can modify the brain of those drones. And GPS/GLONASS guarantees high enough accuracy that those drones can destroy or damage oil refineries, power plants, transformer substations, factories, and other large structures. 

The small drones that Ukrainians use against Russian infantry and armored vehicles are also very effective. Those drones are just little modified versions of drones that people can buy from supermarkets. 

Those drones are equipped with systems that can drop hand grenades at enemy positions. Sometimes those hand grenades slipped into tanks from the open hatches. And that destroyed those tanks. If those small-size drones are equipped with thermobaric hand grenades the lethal radius of those bombs is 30 meters. 

The Ukrainian military also used pocket-size killer drones that can take off individual shooters. In the wrong hands, those pocket-size drones can cause a big risk to national security. They can leave in position. And then those drones can attack their targets. The small miniature drones can control by using satellite data transmission. And those drones are giving ICBM missiles the ability to kill individual people from the streets. 

The killer drones and loitering ammunition can have similar target recognition and attack capacity as Javelin missiles. There are multiple different drone variants in use. Some drones are equipped with similar radiation-homing equipment with HARM (High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles). This makes them effective against radio transmitters. That kind of drone can destroy any radio source. 

The thing that makes drones dangerous is advancing technology. When we think that a 60 € mobile telephone can give drones the same accuracy that made in the 1990s by using equipment that cost millions of Euros, we must concern about the future. The reason for that is. All models that we made against drones are old fashion. 

Image recognition systems are giving drones pinpoint accuracy. And the first supersonic drones are in use. AI-controlled weapons are under development. And the fact is that the fear that Russia or China will be first is making other nations create new terminator weapons. If those international contracts limit that development, we are in big trouble. 

International contracts limit many things like the development of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. But those weapons are under development. 

International laws prohibit things like extortion. But somehow, those cases happen quite often. Drones are big ammo over the battlefield. If we think, that some country loses 24 tanks in the mission, that is not the end of the tank. In the case of war, we must realize that somebody doesn't care about contracts. 

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Writing about anti-radiation missiles

Writing about anti-radiation missiles

Anti-radar or anti-radiation or ARM-missiles are weapons, which is created for destroying the radio transmitters. The name anti-radiation missiles mean that they are used also eliminating other radio-sources than the radars. What means that those missiles can destroy the command infrastructure very effectively.

In normal scenarios, the missiles are used against radars, but they can hit against every radio source on earth. And this makes those weapons really interesting because those missiles can be used also against the ECM-systems.

The anti-radiation missiles locate those radio targets as well as normal radars, and they can be used against the helicopters and fighters. In this case, the self-protective systems of aircraft turn against it, and in fact, the radar of the aircraft can offer a great target for ARM-missiles.

Normally aircraft uses HARM (High-Speed Anti Radiation missiles) against radars, but those missiles are suitable for destroying the data networks and other communication lines. Anti-Radiation weapons destroy effectively every kind of radio source in the target area, and they can destroy the WLAN network stations if they are visible for the system.

Anti-radiation or anti-radar missiles can terminate even single individuals if they are targeted to certain cell-phones using the IMEI-code of the telephone.

Those missiles can destroy a vital part of the command infrastructure, like the support stations of the GSM-network, and they can use against the command links of the drones. And this makes them very effective weapons, for destroying support systems of the military forces.

Smallest of those weapons are modified versions of the FIM-92 Stinger missiles, what are marked as Stinger ARM,  and the mark of the Russian opponent is not in my knowledge. Those missiles can shoot against patrols from the shoulder, every vehicle or aircraft, and helicopters. And they would hit to every radio source on the battlefield.

Those ARM-weapons have caused fear that they would use in assassination missions because if the operators have the IMEI-code of the telephone, they can shoot any individual on Earth by using those weapons. So this is the thing, why we should concern about those missiles, what is used against the radars in every battlefield after the Vietnam War.

TAV (Transatmospheric Vehicle) and its use in space force

When we are thinking about the space flight, the normal turbine jet can rise to the LEO (Low Earth Orbiter) or ballistic flight trajectory, if that plane has the capacity to rise straight upwards, and the inlets of the jet engine must be closed by hatches. Then in the turbine must be injected oxygen and the aircraft would rise outside of Earth atmosphere. The question is that: could the motor has enough power to push the aircraft through the loose air, where the wings cannot hold up the aircraft. So by using this technology, the normal looking jet fighter can make at least the ballistic jump outside the atmosphere, and then return to the ground.

The thing, in that case, is that when the aircraft returns, the speed of it would rise at a very high level, what makes difficult to create the heat shield for that plane. But the extensive speed would give the ammunition, what is launched from those aircraft extreme high muzzle velocity. That would melt the ammunition, and if it hits to something, it will melt even the large target immediately.

This kind of aircraft would be useful in the missions, which are meant for HCM (Hypersonic Cruise Missile).  But TAV has more capacity to operate. The speed of the landing aircraft will be enormous if it will compile with the speed of normal aircraft, and then if it would use normal cannons or rockets, the speed of ammunition would rise in the speed of Mach 10-20. The speed of the ammunition loads the projectile very high impact energy and the energy is transforming heat.

That would make famous GAU-8 "Avenger" cannon seem like legume tube. The laws of physics are simple, the movement of the aircraft will accelerate the ammunition with the same level, how the aircraft moves in the air. If the cannon round hits the target with the speed of Mach 15, that will make the heat, what will melt even the big size target. And it can cause bad damages or even sink the target what has the size of aircraft carriers. That kind of systems might be installed in the next generation aircraft, but the F-15 can push itself upwards by using the thrust of the motors.