UAV is a new type of equipment that has shined in modern warfare in recent years, and it is worth noting that in several wars in the past two years, the most common on the battlefield is not the large reconnaissance and combat UAV of the United States and Europe, but a large number of small UAVs. The common characteristics of these drones are simple structure, light size, and "large volume and full", so they are not distressed if they are broken.
In fact, this has brought great challenges to the traditional air defense forces. After all, it is quite possible that the cost of an anti-aircraft missile is much more than a small drone made of plastic, and even if it is successfully intercepted, it will be a loss. As the world's largest producer of UAVs, China is also a country with unique achievements in the field of UAVs, and has also developed a large number of anti-drone methods, such as laser anti-drone systems that have been successfully exported to Saudi Arabia, and the latest "drone killer" of the People's Liberation Army - Type 625 anti-aircraft gun, which has recently appeared on the China-Myanmar border, is one of them.
Recently, our army held a live-fire exercise on the Chinese side of the China-Myanmar border as planned, and this move is likely to be carried out to prevent the spillover of the war in northern Myanmar. It is worth noting that during this exercise, our army's advanced anti-drone equipment Type 625 close-in defense gun was also publicly unveiled. This kind of close defense gun is one of the few in the world, specially designed to intercept and strike UAVs and create an advanced close defense gun, the gun's radar and optoelectronic system can effectively find and lock on the radar reflection area of a very small moving target at a distance of several kilometers, and its range of 2.5 kilometers can basically meet the needs of intercepting most small UAVs.
In the current situation, this kind of equipment specially designed to deal with small UAVs has rarely appeared on the China-Myanmar border, and CCTV military has also made a public report, which obviously has a certain deep meaning. You know, now the Kachin Independence Army in northern Myanmar and the Burmese authorities are fighting fiercely, and the two sides don't actually have any large drones, and some are more small drones like the small quadcopter drones in the Russia-Ukraine war. Therefore, China's placement of the famous "drone killer" on the China-Myanmar border is likely to send a signal that neither the Burmese army nor the drones of the "civilian army" can fly indiscriminately!