The Buria, a Ukrainian-made robotic turret produced by Frontline Robotics, has been integrated with the Ardal unmanned ground system produced by Burevii, forming a mobile combat system.
It is only a matter of time. I suspect it is a bit of a complicated task to develop reliably, but it will definitely be the future of anti-drone warfare.
Something like a Gepard flakpanzer with automated aim would be invaluable.
Exactly. Air warfare has, since its inception, migrated towards more and more high-tech solutions. Modern fighters require modern AA missiles to counter, etc. Drones have flipped this in a sense by swarming in with cheap, low tech (compared to a modern fighter) weapons, that you can’t afford to shoot down with modern AA designed for those fighters. The response will have to be a cheap, low tech (again, relative) solution like flak. Flak went out of use because it didn’t have the accuracy or range to deal with modern fighters/missiles. That’s not a problem against drones. Additionally, drones are much slower and more fragile than a jet, so require far less heavy weapons to shoot down.
It is only a matter of time. I suspect it is a bit of a complicated task to develop reliably, but it will definitely be the future of anti-drone warfare.
Something like a Gepard flakpanzer with automated aim would be invaluable.
Exactly. Air warfare has, since its inception, migrated towards more and more high-tech solutions. Modern fighters require modern AA missiles to counter, etc. Drones have flipped this in a sense by swarming in with cheap, low tech (compared to a modern fighter) weapons, that you can’t afford to shoot down with modern AA designed for those fighters. The response will have to be a cheap, low tech (again, relative) solution like flak. Flak went out of use because it didn’t have the accuracy or range to deal with modern fighters/missiles. That’s not a problem against drones. Additionally, drones are much slower and more fragile than a jet, so require far less heavy weapons to shoot down.
And we now have the ability for much more accurate automated aiming than what flak was capable of.