I can’t pretend to be an expert on these things, but this is also a drone and it does not need to carry the weight of a large battery or an explosive payload. Surely it should be expected to at least match the performance of the incoming drone?
It’s much harder to hit something going 160 km/h than to hit something static with a munition going 160 km/h.
And a thermobaric munition is like the miniaturised version of the MOAB that the US was busting bunkers with in Afghanistan.
Point is, even if it hits the drone 100 m away, I don’t think that would be safe for the target. The primary defense is still jamming, but that is ineffective against wire-guided stuff.
It’s not useless, but I don’t think Putin is safe either. It could also be a cope cage like thing, where the point is just the appearance of safety to calm Putin’s nerves and to discourage attackers.
I can’t pretend to be an expert on these things, but this is also a drone and it does not need to carry the weight of a large battery or an explosive payload. Surely it should be expected to at least match the performance of the incoming drone?
It’s much harder to hit something going 160 km/h than to hit something static with a munition going 160 km/h.
And a thermobaric munition is like the miniaturised version of the MOAB that the US was busting bunkers with in Afghanistan.
Point is, even if it hits the drone 100 m away, I don’t think that would be safe for the target. The primary defense is still jamming, but that is ineffective against wire-guided stuff.
It’s not useless, but I don’t think Putin is safe either. It could also be a cope cage like thing, where the point is just the appearance of safety to calm Putin’s nerves and to discourage attackers.
A 2kg thermobaric warhead for RShG-1/RPG-27 has a 10m lethal radius. For 100m you would need something far bigger.
Thanks for pointing it out though, I couldn’t find data on that warhead, I guess my guess was off by an order of magnitude.