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vara bungas: Jaunā gada motto: “DODIET ZALUŽNIJAM STRAIKERI LEONIDASU!!!”

2022.-2023. bija: “Aizveriet Ukrainas debesis”. Done?

“Non-kinetic defense systems are a key part of America’s national defense strategy,” said Colin Whelan, president of Advanced Technology at Raytheon.

“The new iterations of Raytheon’s high-power microwave systems are cost-effective and reliable solutions that operate at the speed of light – enabling our warfighters to defend against faster and more maneuverable threats.”

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[..] In the long-term, defeating $20,000 drones with $200,000 surface-to-air missiles also puts Ukraine on the wrong side of the cost equation. But you fight with what you have – until you can get something that’s better.[..] As the war in Ukraine is demonstrating, surface-to-air missiles and radar-directed AAA are not a complete answer to this problem. While they offer longer range and precision against aerial targets, they are primarily designed to attack fighter and bomber aircraft, as well as cruise missiles, rather than large number of relatively inexpensive drones. What is needed are systems that can rapidly fire multiple times (deep magazine) at low cost (non-kinetic) and preferably operate at the speed of light. In other words, what air defense units need to counter these drone and cruise missile attacks are directed energy weapons (DEWs).[..] in the case of drones, drone swarms, or other targets, what’s required is only to either confuse the electronics or render them inoperable. Destroying them with high-power ultrawideband pulses is unnecessary, which means that an HPM system doesn’t necessarily need to transmit gigawatts of power to destroy a single target, as it would against other assets, but only what’s needed to render a sensor inoperable or affect the weapons systems navigation or flight controls. This capability has been demonstrated in one form or another for more than 15 years since Raytheon developed its Valiant Eagle system in 2006 and later BAE Systems Bofors HPM Blackout.[..]

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[..] The Ukrainian Armed Forces could certainly benefit from many of these HPM systems right now, but that seems unlikely even though the Russian drones and cruise missiles would be an excellent field test for them. THOR and PHASER reportedly have been deployed outside the US as part of their evaluations, while Leonidas has not. Lowery at Epirus says the company has built four ruggedized prototypes of Leonidas that “could” become LRIP-ready and could be deployable and sent to Ukraine in 2023. As the drone and missile strikes against Ukraine are expected to increase over the next few months, however, Ukraine’s need for HPM weapons to counter them will certainly increase, as well. They could form one part of a multi-layered air defense solution to an complex problem. [..]

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VB: LRIP = Low Rate Initial Production and Limited Deployment