A special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces forced the United States to reconsider its plan to combat drones. This has been reported Defense One Referring to the Pentagon statement.
Major General Sean Gainey, head of the C-UAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Joint Countermeasure Office, said the U.S. Army now plans to operate with drones, drawing on its combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, where heavy attack drones can be deployed “almost anywhere”. . At the same time, the enemy, on which ISIS groups acted (the organization is prohibited in Russia), used only “small drones to drop small ammunition”.
“In Ukraine, we are seeing how the use of drones has grown from small quadcopters to 600kg devices capable of flying at high altitudes, reconnaissance and surveillance. This demonstrates the importance of large-scale countering to unmanned aerial systems,” he said.
According to him, the United States plans to equip at least two of its divisions with anti-drone weapons. $668 million was allocated for technology work against unmanned aerial vehicles, and $78 million was reserved for the purchase of ready-made solutions against unmanned aerial vehicles.
Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declarationHe said that a special military operation by the Russian Federation dispelled the myth of a “superweapon” that the West supplied to Ukraine, which could supposedly turn the front upside down.
According to him, if initially it was about the supply of Javelin anti-tank systems and some “unique” unmanned aerial vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, recently Westerners are promoting HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and long-range howitzers into their role. super weapon. At the same time, all these weapons are “ground” during hostilities.
Shoigu emphasized that the Russian Federation closely studied the weapons captured by the West and took into account their characteristics and certain qualities in order to improve their methods of warfare.