Anti-drone swarms also need to "combination of soft and hard" to strike
UAV swarms can use "soft kill" methods such as electronic interference or network attacks to counteract, destroy the signal connection between the UAV swarm and the remote controller, and make the UAV swarm directly out of control and crash or return automatically. However, if the drone swarm adopts an autonomous method to carry out attacks, separates from remote information interaction, and strengthens the protection of information interaction within the swarm, the "soft kill" method may not be effective. drone jammer
Therefore, it is also necessary to use "hard kill" methods to counter UAV swarms, such as artillery interception, laser interception, UAV "suicide" interception, capture net interception, and aerial fortification. UAV swarms generally have a large number of UAVs, and the use of a single means to fight against them may have limited effect. Countering UAV swarms should focus on the entire UAV swarm system, combine software and hardware, and fight as a whole from the perspective of system confrontation. Comprehensive use A variety of means to intercept layer by layer.
In particular, it is necessary to vigorously develop high-efficiency and low-cost new defense means such as high-power microwave weapons, and pay attention to the development of means to counter UAV swarms. The research report "Winning the Competition of Guided Weapon Clusters: Rebalancing US Air Defense and Anti-missile" released by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment of the United States in May 2016 believes that the US military should respond to large-scale "guided weapons cluster" attacks, and the air defense and anti-missile systems should be transformed. Build a new system of organic and seamless integration of traditional/new interception systems, especially to strengthen the application of electromagnetic railguns, laser weapons, high-power microwave weapons, electronic warfare systems and other equipment to achieve efficient guided weapon cluster defense. .
It should be noted that the means of new anti-UAV swarm operations sometimes have limitations in their use. For example, lasers are greatly affected by weather conditions such as rain, snow, and fog. Therefore, to counter UAV swarm operations, it is necessary to make full use of the advantages of new means and give full play to the effectiveness of traditional means to achieve "seamless connection" and "echelon connection" between the two, so as to effectively deal with UAV swarms.
