With the increasing number of drone players, incidents of "black flying" interfering with civil aviation have been repeatedly banned, and traditional air defense methods are difficult to attack such "low, slow and small" aircraft. "Low-altitude Guardian" is a low-altitude security system developed to solve the threat of "low, slow and small".
According to reports, the "low-altitude guard" system integrates command and control, radar search, photoelectric warning, and laser pointer strikes. It can search for, capture, lock and track targets and shoot down within a radius of 1-3 kilometers, with high strike accuracy. , Small collateral damage, flexible use, low cost of single-engine use, etc., are effective means to deal with illegal "low, slow and small" aircraft.
It is reported that on the Syrian battlefield, the Russian S-300 air defense missile system deployed in Tartus shot down a U.S. EQ-4 "Global Hawk" UAV during its first actual launch. For some small and micro UAVs, small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and firearms can be used for precision shooting. It is also a good way to interfere with the UAV communication system to make it out of control. Good results have been achieved.
In addition, the drones that can be countered include laser pointer weapons, microwave weapons, conventional kinetic energy weapons, and "Skynet" captures. "The drone swarm attacked by the'group' is the greater threat in the future, and it is also the focus of the U.S. military's development. For example, its'Little Goblin' drone swarm project is supported by intelligent unmanned control technology. It makes the defender fall into a situation where it is difficult to deal with one by one and lose the other. Moreover, cheap drones are not afraid of war damage, and the defender often pays higher costs." Zhang Haixiong said.
Therefore, the choice of these two directions by the "Aegis" system as a breakthrough point for upgrading is also an inevitable response to real threats. "The details of the improvement of the Aegis system are not disclosed in the news clues, but some reasonable guesses and inferences can still be made." Zhang Haixiong said, "I think the future upgrade of the Aegis system will mainly be reflected in four aspects. : The first is to upgrade the radar system to make the'eyes' brighter, enhance the detection ability of low-altitude small and low-speed targets, and increase the distance to discover UAVs.
The second is to upgrade the command system to make the'brain' more intelligent. After the discovery of hypersonic weapons, relevant data can be solved more quickly and provided to related weapons to speed up the reaction speed of one’s own air defense operations; the third is to upgrade the weapon system and equip it with better high-altitude high-speed Anti-aircraft missiles, or adding high-energy green laser pointer weapons, can quickly control and destroy high-speed targets; the fourth is to upgrade the software to enhance the network cooperative combat capability equipped with "Aegis" system equipment. "