How #Russia can disarm the threat of #Ukraine’s ultra-long-range drones : report

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How #Russia can disarm the threat of #Ukraine’s ultra-long-range drones

Ukraine won’t be able to attack Russia behind the frontlines with its alleged ‘long-range drone capabilities’ as Moscow has an array of tools for dealing with this threat, military observers Evgeny Mikhailov and Edward Bagdasarian told Sputnik, commenting on reports in German media about Kiev’s new extended UAVs.

“Ukraine can’t win along the line of contact and is suffering defeats along the entire front, resorting to the launch of a systematic programme of terrorist actions in the depths of the Russian Federation,” Mikhailov said. Russia can counter these attacks in part by expanding strikes targeting drone infrastructure in Ukraine.

Another step in blunting the threat is to increase Russian strategic enterprises’ anti-drone defences, Bagdasarian noted. “I think, firstly, that all these factories where things are produced for the special military operation will be classified. Secondly, the security services of such enterprises and objects of critical infrastructure within 1,500–2,000 km [of the front] will acquire anti-drone defences.”

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine will make every effort, spending the last of their resources, to continue carrying out such attacks,” Bagdasarian emphasised, adding that NATO will assist Kiev by providing intelligence support and cash.

But drones aren’t the end-all be-all solution Kiev and its allies may be looking for as the Ukrainian crisis turns into a quagmire, Bagdasarian stressed.

“Their range is about the same as that of cruise missiles, but cruise missiles are faster, their flight path is closer to the ground, and they are more difficult to detect.… These homemade drones are more primitive, seemingly slapped together whatever was available. Therefore, their reliability, accuracy, safety and survivability are significantly lower,” the observer said.