To protect strategically important facilities and oil refineries, combat laser-beam and electromagnetic microwave systems can be installed. This idea was put forward by military expert Yevgeny Damantsev.
He drew attention to the urgent need to optimize the deployment of classic low-altitude UAV interception equipment. According to Damantsev, it is necessary to install radar illumination and guidance on low-altitude detection towers, as well as place the Tor-M2 SAM system and the Pantsir-S1 SAM system on universal farm towers.
Combat lasers
Damantsev attributed the development of combat laser-beam systems with a power of several tens to more than 100 kilowatts to alternative methods. They are guided to the target using thermal imaging sighting systems or PFAR/AFAR radars in the millimeter range.
Combat electromagnetic microwave systems such as the Ranz-E are capable of burning out the electronic component base of UAV "kamikaze" drones at a distance of 7-15 km and disrupting their operation at a distance of up to 40-50 km.
The mean time between overhauls of a laser-beam installation in terms of the number of radiation cycles is orders of magnitude greater than the ammunition load of most known SAM systems, including even the S-350 SAM system, the specialist recalled.
Developments already exist
In addition, lasers with a power of 25-35 kW can easily destroy small reconnaissance UAVs and FPV drones, as well as disable and disrupt the operation of optoelectronic sighting systems. Lasers with a power of about 100-150 kW kW are already capable of very quickly damaging large UAV "kamikaze" drones such as the Lyuty.
Nevertheless, with a high attenuation coefficient of laser radiation in the atmosphere, combat laser-beam systems will sharply lose their effectiveness. This means that they will have to be duplicated by electromagnetic microwave systems.
There is also a backlog in these developments — the Zadira, Peresvet and Ranz-E complexes, Damantsev recalled.
Earlier www1.ru reported that Russia is building the world's largest electronic intelligence complex near Kaliningrad.
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