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"Gepard" AA gun downing a "Shahed" UAV this morning. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Cheetah" is faster than "moped" 💨

This morning, one of the air defense units, which received over 10 million hryvnias of aid from us, successfully shot down an enemy drone. That's how it works - we help, they protect 🫶

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

SPAA is going to come back in a big way in the coming years. The effectiveness of these things in Ukraine is crazy.

I don’t think the Gepards support the round type, but some of the new precision-fused airburst rounds (the fuses are wirelessly individually set as it passes through the muzzle, AFTER round velocity is measured a dozen or so cm back (!!!) for maximum burst precision) are crazy. It’s like flak, but it knows EXACTLY where it needs to pop to frag the target, instead of “1000m +/- 100m”.

And then there’s directed energy, which is also going to get interesting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

AHEAD ammunition, part of the Skynex, Skyrangers, etc. which Ukraine has a couple and getting more of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwjcayPuag

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Awesome to see the effectiveness og the Gepard like this. It seems perfectly suited for these kinds of slow-moving low-cost targets that you really don't to send expensive interceptors at.

Especially when the leading drone tactic seems to mostly be "send enough to saturate the air defences", having stuff like this that can rapidly burst down a bunch of drones at low cost, using ammunition that's quick and easy to produce, seems perfect.