Why stopping a cheap drone is harder than stopping a missile
In short: a small drone is slow, low and quiet, which sounds easy to counter but actually defeats systems built for fast, high-flying threats. Radar struggles to separate a plastic…
The missile is the last step, not the first
In short: an air-defense engagement is a fixed sequence of steps, not a single shot. Sensors detect a target, a computer builds a track and identifies it, an operator or…
The interceptor does not win the engagement. The radar does.
In short: Interceptors get the glory, but the radar network decides the fight. Sensors detect, classify, and track a threat, then hand a fire-control quality track to the launcher. No…