In recent days, it has been talked about the ubiquity of a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles on today's land battlefield, which is really a headache for all parties involved in the war. Traditional missile and anti-aircraft artillery interception is very inefficient and dangerous; If it is expected that individual weapons can intercept, then whether it is a gun or a net, or a net gun, then it is even more irresponsible at the strategic level. It is equivalent to directly exposing individual soldiers to the powerful firepower of drones and cruise missiles. Any individual system, no matter how advanced, will not have an exchange ratio of more than 10 to 1 against UAVs and cruise missiles. That is, it takes 10 individual soldiers to intercept or capture an opponent's drone, so today, when global human resources are becoming more and more expensive, this is a very stupid battlefield exchange ratio. Therefore, we absolutely cannot expect to hand over all the anti-UAVs and cruise missiles in actual combat to the so-called new weapons of individual soldiers. To truly effective anti-drone operations, it is still necessary to raise it to the level of divisions and brigades, and the minimum is also within the radius of the brigade's cluster air defense.
And any individual advanced anti-drone system is like a 10,000-round cannon on a capital ship. No, no, no; But it is also absolutely unacceptable to expect 10,000 rounds of artillery to intercept all anti-ship attacks at the last level. Therefore, to sum up, whether it is on the land battlefield or on the sea battlefield, the truly and absolutely effective anti-drone means are clearly the most effective laser close defense system. Can engage multiple targets at the same time; Even if dozens or even hundreds of UAVs and cruise missiles are attacking at the same time, there is no problem, and they can be shot down one by one in an extremely fast time of more than ten seconds. Laser weapons are also largely immune to strong electromagnetic interference. Except for violent storm weather, laser anti-drone systems can work normally; In extreme storms, rains and snowstorms, it is difficult to release a large number of drones and cruise missiles. However, a careful and in-depth analysis will also find that even though the combat efficiency of the laser anti-drone system is extremely high, it also faces a very real big bug. That is, how to accurately distinguish friend from foe on the battlefield that is actually combat?
Quickly and accurately distinguishing friend from foe is one of the most basic essentials of warfare in any era. The ancients knew that they should tie strips of red or yellow cloth around their heads to make it easy to distinguish between friend and foe. Hence the historical allusions to the Red Turban Army or the Yellow Turban Army. This approach is still the most effective today. Soldiers on the battlefields of Europe still wrap blue or white duct tape around their arms and bodies as the most intuitive way to distinguish them. At any time, the visual difference between shape and color has always been the simplest, most direct and most effective way to quickly distinguish friend from foe. However, this method seems to be basically useless for quickly distinguishing drones on the battlefield. Because the UAV and cruise missile targets themselves are small. If the distance is close enough to be distinguished by the naked eye, then these UAVs and cruise missiles have already entered the distance of accurately killing the observer. Moreover, it is very likely that the drones used by both sides of the battlefield are produced by the same manufacturer. At the very least, a large number of identical-looking parts are shared. Therefore, in actual combat,
It is extremely difficult to quickly identify the ownership of a drone overhead simply by visual sight. Traditional fighters and even some missiles, most of them use fully automated friend or foe identification antennas, which are actually a special radar signal for secondary response. However, this system is widely used in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and cruise missiles, which cannot be sustained either economically or technically. Moreover, some UAVs and cruise missiles are one-time self-SAO attacks, and no one was intended to identify them in advance. The great success of laser interception drones and long-range cruise missiles on the battlefield in the Middle East is that there is basically no need to identify friend or foe first. Within a certain period of time, all low-altitude flying objects that appear in the war zone are incoming hostile targets by default, and they can all be shot down immediately! But on other battlefields, this method of warfare will not work. Just ask everyone who has a better and more effective way?