Russia’s increasing dependence on mass attacks with Shahid Iranians has made the road to a new tactic, as Moscow sends explosive drones from high altitudes.
“The current Russian tactic is constantly summarizing the drone roads and trying to launch it at high altitudes – over 2 km above the ground,” Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, told RBC Outlet in an article published on Tuesday.
“Then they dive directly down to the target,” Ihnat added.
While Ihnat was not specifically mentioned Shahed, the Iranian designer ammunition was the drone in Russia to bomb Ukrainian cities from afar.
A spokesman for high -height maneuvers, which means that drones are more easily detected on radars, but fly outside the range of small weapons fires.
This is a problem for a part of the air defenses in Ukraine, which publishes extinguishing groups on a mole with heavy machine guns installed on vehicles to drop Shahids as they are approaching.
Ukrainian units now say that drones in one direction fly up and faster, making them more difficult. She informed some of Shahid’s amendments that her maximum speed increased from 115 to 180 miles per hour.
As a result, one of the Business Insider team was told by Business Insider last week, the Ukrainians should start relying on more The surface of the shoulder launch, Also known as manpads.
All of this is part of Russia’s strategy to use Shahid to exhaust air defenses in Ukraine, including the Ukrainian electronic warfare and surface missiles to the air.
Shahed’s launch operations have risen sharply during the past year, as Russia often sends hundreds in a goal in one night to overcome Ukrainian air defenses. They are associated with waves of long -range missile strikes, making night attacks more common and more difficult to mitigate.
Some of Shahid that were launched are cheaper versions without warheads that work as months. IHNAT RBC Ukraine estimates that for every 100 drones sent to Ukraine, it is usually about 40 polytheists.
Shahid is slower and is usually less powerful than the flight or ballistic missiles, but it costs less, about $ 20,000 to $ 50,000 per drone. Even the minimum air defense missiles, such as the medium-range detainee launched by the Soviet Buk-M1, can cost about $ 300,000 each.
The Patriot missile system in the United States, which is believed to have about six to eight years, suffers from fires that may cost up to 4 million dollars each.
This variance in the cost has led to the feeding of Moscow to build Shahids locally and send it in the waves, and often in the civil infrastructure.
Analysts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies reported that the number of launch operations in Shahed rose from 130 averages per week in September to 1100 weekly launch this spring.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian intelligence said in February that Russia has begun to develop a new version of the Shahid that could fly at 372 miles per hour and have a range of 1550 miles.
Ukrainian and Russian defense ministries did not respond to the suspension requests sent outside the normal working hours by BI.
