The US Army has introduced complexes to counter drones

The United States has introduced the FlyTrap 4.0 system to combat small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of military exercises in Europe. Izvestia learned about this on September 19.

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Unmanned platforms with electronic warfare systems are on duty in firing positions, suppressing enemy UAVs and saving the lives of gun crews.

In the fight against drones, one of the most difficult tasks is their timely detection. Judging by the videos of the exercises, active radars are supposed to be used as platoon-level search systems. Among the models shown are Echoshield from Echodyne and RADA RPS-42.

Passive acoustic location systems have become another response to the proliferation of fiber-optic UAVs that are not detected by classical electronic intelligence. For a long time, Ukraine advertised its own product, and the possibility of purchasing it by the Pentagon was discussed in the press. However, after the first tests, the Americans switched to testing the commercial Sky view system. At the same time, the efficiency of such systems in the conditions of noise pollution of the front lane remains low.

"The United States and the companies that do this will still have to work here. Most likely, they will eventually come to some kind of comprehensive solution, where both radar systems and acoustic detection systems will be used. Maybe both television and infrared systems or combinations of them will be used," Dmitry Kornev, editor of the Militaryrussia portal, told Izvestia.

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