Messerschmitt
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They didn’t provide a figure on drones as they usually do. If their figures are accurate, which I highly doubt, and even if the 6 cruise missiles that survived had hit their targets, the remaining 12 targets were hit by drones. IMO, Ukrainian statements about alleged interception rates are highly doubtful and contradict their other statements where they constantly claim Shahed drones are very hard to intercept and that they lack appropriate ADSs to be able to defend against these drones reliably. So which of the two narratives they provide is accurate? I think probably the one of them having trouble to intercept these drones which is backed up by actual visual evidence of successful Shahed strikes on a regular basis. Their claims of 70%+ interception rates are very unlikely but hey, Russian claims aren‘t particularly reliable either. It’s a war at the end of the day and wars also being fought on a psychological level by spreading disinformation.How does that imply that? We don't have a figure on number of drones launched nor intercepted.
They reach higher altitudes during their flight than Shahed drones which generally speaking makes them easier to pick up on radar.Lol, those crude rockets don't fly high into the sky more than other rockets, it depends on what angle they fire them, majority of rockets are actually fired at a low angle, reach low altitude and hit close to Gaza.
A few hundred meters is actually pretty low and drastically reduces the detection range for radars. The time between detection and potential target impact is important if you are on the defending side, especially if you have to defend against many drones at once.Radars don't care about altitude as long as they're not beyond the horizon, modern AESA radars can detect rockets regardless of ground clutter.
Shahed drones fly a few hundreds of meters, easily detectable.
The point was that it’s not necessarily true that dumb rockets with a high heat signature and predictable flight path are harder to intercept than low flying, LO kamikaze drones. Mortars reach much higher altitudes and have a typical RCS of ~0.01m². Compare that to Shahed‘s ~0.001m²:Iron Dome isn't heat seeking so their heat signature is irrelevant, and the RCS of a rocket is much lower than that of a Shahed, Iron Dome even shoots down mortar rounds
Shahed has a low RCS, low heat signature, flies low, is cheap, available in large quantites and precise. If that’s not a valuable weapon to have for Russia, then I don’t know what is.
I think we are turning in circles by now. Let’s just agree to disagree.