To shoot down kamikaze drones, a record number of which the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine on the night of May 28, aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were involved. This was announced by the speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat.
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Air defense works in one place, mobile groups in another. In those areas where there are fewer air defense systems, fighters can operate. They are capable of taking off quickly, reacting quickly and destroying drones,” the Air Force spokesman said.
In the last attack, MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters took off into the sky.
If we had the F-16, of course, this aircraft with its powerful radar and weapons could fulfill its tasks in the sky 100%,” Ignat said.
The enemy is controlling Iranian-made kamikaze drones via satellite, these drones are trying to mislead the Ukrainian air defense, because of the threat of the Shaheds, air raids can last for a long time.
They flew from the south and north (usually the Russian Federation uses these directions for delivering strikes with “Shaheds”). Then they fly in groups, fly in different directions in batches, each drone has its own route, each drone has GPS navigation, is controlled via satellite, so it can even fly in a circle and strike in a certain time. The enemy is trying to mislead our air defense, using the terrain to disappear from the radar.
According to Ignat, at night the most effective means against Iranian drones are anti-aircraft guided missiles, which have a large area of destruction compared to small air defense. The ideal variant is to destroy the Shaheds with less costly forces of mobile fire groups, but at night their effectiveness, unfortunately, is not great. Although this night some of the drones were destroyed by mobile groups.
Source: Racurs
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