Anti-UAV/UCAV-Systeme

[Quintus Fabius]

F-15SE mit einer "Anti-Drohnen" Bewaffnung:

https://www.twz.com/air/f-15e-spotted-pa...ne-hunting

A picture has emerged showing a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle loaded with at least three seven-shot 70mm rocket pods under its left wing. If the jet had three more pods on the right side, this would amount to a whopping 42 rockets, which could be carried together with eight traditional air-to-air missiles.

Man erinnere sich an dieser Stelle an meinen Vorschlag etliche Beiträge früher, für die Drohnenabwehr 70mm Raketen zu verwenden (was einige dann kritisierten). Welche dann natürlich auch noch vielfältiger verwendet werden könnten:

But it’s the Strike Eagle and APKWS II combo’s potential in the air-to-air role that is perhaps most exciting. As we noted earlier, Air Force F-16s first began employing the laser-guided rockets in an anti-air optimized configuration to shoot down Houthi drones during operations over and around the Red Sea last year, which TWZ was first to report. The Air Force had announced back in 2019 that it had demonstrated APKWS II’s ability to be used as an air-to-air weapon in a test wherein an F-16 downed a surrogate for a subsonic cruise missile, something we were also first to report on. APKWS II is also combat-proven in the surface-to-air role against drones, as well as in air-ground modes and surface-to-surface modes.

“The drone war is kind of like a video game. You just gotta get the jets up in the air and position them correctly for an intercept. The radar will easily see them after they’re launched and then it’s just how many missiles you have versus how many drones are launched. The technical aspect of detecting them and downing them is easy,” Daren “Shotgun” Sorenson, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew F-15Es, told TWZ in an interview last summer. “It’s easy work. You can do it all day long until you run out of missiles.”

Die M346FA hat ein Radar, welches für solche Drohnen ausreichend ist. Sie ist ausreichend schnell. Sie könnte ausreichend viele solche kleine Rakten tragen.