Defense against UAV's

Moritz Wünsch wrote:
schrieb:

The responses so far all point to several things:

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3. It is always likely to prove difficult to spot a small, stealthy UAV
by any means - visual, IR or radar. Furthermore, existing gun/missile
systems are not designed to engage such targets and may have great
difficulty in doing so.

What about using lidar?
In bad weather the drone/UAV might be degraded as well as your lidar-system.

And for defence/shooting them down maybe something like THEL could be
used, and I believe the range of THEL being superior to that of most gun
systems.

That sounds like a promising approach - but I believe it would be quite
a few years before such a system could be in service. Which is, of
course, the crux of the problem: the threat is relatively low-tech,
cheap, proven and available now, the responses to it are high-tech,
costly, unproven and available "sometime in the future".

Tony Williams
Military gun and ammunition website: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk

schrieb:
Moritz Wünsch wrote:

schrieb:


The responses so far all point to several things:


snip

3. It is always likely to prove difficult to spot a small, stealthy UAV
by any means - visual, IR or radar. Furthermore, existing gun/missile
systems are not designed to engage such targets and may have great
difficulty in doing so.


What about using lidar?
In bad weather the drone/UAV might be degraded as well as your lidar-system.

And for defence/shooting them down maybe something like THEL could be
used, and I believe the range of THEL being superior to that of most gun
systems.


That sounds like a promising approach - but I believe it would be quite
a few years before such a system could be in service. Which is, of
course, the crux of the problem: the threat is relatively low-tech,
cheap, proven and available now, the responses to it are high-tech,
costly, unproven and available "sometime in the future".

Tony Williams
Military gun and ammunition website: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk

I m no expert, but as far as I know there do exist working lidar systems
,eg. from Kayser Threde, although it is mostly used to measure air currents.