The Black Sea waters can be protected from unmanned surface vessels (USV) if emphasis is placed on a combination of radar aviation and strike aircraft. This proposal was made by a retired military pilot and author of the popular Telegram channel Fighterbomber.
According to him, it is necessary to involve Ka-31R long-range radar detection helicopters and Su-34 bomber crews. For example, the rotorcraft was originally created for naval reconnaissance and the search for surface targets, the ex-military pilot noted.
Five Ka-31Rs and a flight of Su-34s with an onboard reconnaissance system completely close the issue of round-the-clock and all-weather detection of USVs in the Black Sea. And if you attach Il-38 and A-50, ground-based radars and ship stations to them, then the issue of detecting something on the sea surface should not even arise.
The pilot recalled that the Ka-31 was produced in two versions — the naval Ka-31R and the land-based Ka-35, where the radar equipment is already "tuned" to detect ground targets.
They have one drawback. There are few of them. Not even that. We can count them on the fingers of one hand. If you cut off a few fingers on it.
It should be noted that the Ka-31 is equipped with the E-801E(M) Oko complex with a rotating antenna 5.75 m long, located under the fuselage. It is capable of detecting surface targets of the "ship" type at a range of up to 250 km.
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