Posted on 10/30/2021 6:15:38 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
on’t worry if you hear an explosion,” our Armenian guide tells us as we creep along the bombed-out streets of Martuni. “By the time you hear it, it has already missed you. You should only really worry if you hear the hum of a drone. Which you will,” he adds with a dry grin. This small town is less than two miles from the front line of a bloody battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh—an area about the size of Delaware that’s entirely within Azerbaijan and largely inhabited by ethnic Armenians.
The conflict dates back to 1988, flaring up with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. But now, in little more than a month, two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) sent up by the Azeris—the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 and the Israeli-made Harop—have wiped out the Armenian defensive advantage and laid waste to billions of dollars of military hardware. The Bayraktar, often armed with laser-guided MAM warheads, strikes its targets in the same way a U.S. Predator would hit a terrorist camp in Afghanistan or Somalia. The Harop, by contrast, dives at its target like a kamikaze, exploding on impact.
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Ping. This is important.
Airborne drone technology is very scalable. Mass attacks by small, coordinated suicide drones will be very hard to defend against. The robot dogs have a tremendous RF, IR, and audio signature which makes them an easy target for any advanced attack drone.
spectrum jammed to the stone age in 3,2,1...
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