South Korea promotes anti-aircraft guns for drone defense
defence-blog.com
South Korea’s defense community is placing renewed attention on anti-aircraft guns as an effective response to the growing threat posed by mass drone attacks on modern battlefields. The shift reflects increasing concern among military planners that traditional missile-based air defense

Is it issues detecting and tracking? Seems like radar guided gun systems should shred shaheeds but perhaps I’m missing something.

I can see the difficulties tracking quad copter / fpv drones… anyone have insight?

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It’s simply a numbers game. Gepards are very effective against Shaheds but they only have a range of a few kilometres. You’d need hundreds to protect a major city. Those numbers just don’t exist.