The Russian-made Tor-M2KM (short-range) and Buk-M2E (medium-range) anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) can destroy strike-reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in particular, the Turkish Bayraktar TB2. The most suitable “killers” of drones are listed by the “Military Industrial Courier”.
According to the newspaper's publication on the use of UAVs during the last conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Tor-M2KM “simultaneously detects 48 targets, accompanies 10, fires 4,” as a result of which Bayraktar TB2 “has no chance of surviving, having entered the zone actions of this SAM “.
According to the newspaper, the Sosna air defense missile system, capable of detecting aircraft at a distance of 30 kilometers, and cruise missiles and drones – 12 kilometers, can be useful for the destruction of Turkish-made UAVs. “The zone of guaranteed interception is 1.3-10 kilometers in range and 0.002-5 kilometers in height,” the newspaper says.
The publication reminds that work is underway in Russia to create the Ptitselov air defense system, the ammunition of which differs from that of the Sosna by a “new missile with a greater range and interception height”. Among the means of combating UAVs, the publication also includes the Derivation-Air Defense anti-aircraft artillery complex (ZAK).
The publication concludes that at present “the Russian army has enough different systems to deal with this pretty demonized aircraft now” (Bayraktar TB2). It is also reported there that Armenia has a limited number of such air defense systems, used to cover strategically important facilities in the country.
In November, Deputy Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) Konstantin Makienko, commenting on the results of the latest conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, in which, in his opinion, Russia was the loser, said that currently the Armed Forces of Ukraine have weapons systems that do not exist from Russia, in particular, third-generation anti-tank missile systems and kamikaze drones.
In the same month, retired Lieutenant General Thomas Sper, currently head of the National Defense Center of the American strategic research institute Heritage Foundation, said that the war in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan provides an opportunity to see what the conflict of the future might look like.
