Army of the Reb. How and why is the percentage of beating Russian rockets
The Command of the Air Forces of Ukraine in its reports as a result of the reflection of massive air attacks of the enemy, began to report the use of radio electronic struggle (EIT). For example, on January 23, a spokesman for the Air Force Yuri Ignat said that some of the hostile missiles simply did not fly to their goals. To clarify that it can be related to the oldness of Russian weapons, as well as other factors.
"They knocked down 15 out of 15 winged missiles, knocked down one x-59, and those who did not knock down, they did not reach their goals for certain reasons, let's say so. , and the interference of our HPs, "Ignat said. It should be noted that it is the means of the IP, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzhny who calls one of the components of possible success of Ukraine's defense forces.
He wrote about it in his article for The Economist, which some political analysts called his relationship with President Vladimir Zelensky. Ukraine has a powerful base for the development of radio electronic struggle and intelligence (HRB and RAP). It is known from open sources that their development, production and modernization are engaged in Zaporizhzhya "Iskra", Kharkiv "Proton", Donetsk "Topaz" (the enterprise was evacuated in 2014 in the control territory).
The media also had information about the development of the Supreme "Pokrova", which was reported by the same General Zaluzhny. "At this time, we have virtually achieved parity to perform the tasks of the IP, which significantly complicates the possibility of achieving the advantage of the Armed Forces of both the Russian Federation and Ukraine during the use of weapons and military equipment and troops as a whole," Zaluzhny in The Economist wrote.
Information on the reflection of rocket attacks by the Russian Federation with the help of Reb means caused some warning in society. Social networks have begun to discuss that arithmetic did not agree: the number of rockets used by the enemy is much more than those that were shot down by air defense.
Former deputy chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and former Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Igor Romanenko believes that there was a need to explain how the efficiency of air defense on the reflection of attacks reached 80-90% of goals, and now 30-40%. "I will note that the criterion for assessing the efficiency of air defense is not the number of crashed missiles, but the number of enemy goals that have not fulfilled their tasks.
That is, some differentiation - how many air purposes were used in the attack, how many of them were shot down by means Eelectronic struggle and obstacles, " - explains Romanenko's focus. The editor -in -chief of the profile edition of Defense Express Oleg Katkov in a comment to Focus reported that for the first time about the use of HRs against Russian goals was known in the summer of 2023. At that time, their opposition was reported by supersonic anti -ship missiles "Onyx".
Winged, ballistic missiles or drones have their own means for a specific target. The difference is that drones are limited in the number of such systems because of their size. In rockets, different guidance systems are used that duplicate and complement each other. The simplest guidance system is inertial, which uses a complex of mechanical gyroscopes, accelerometers that are almost not exposed to electronics. As a rule, these are used in drones-Kamikadze.
The targeting system allows the rocket to move to a given target autonomously, changing the directions of traffic and the height of the flight. The task of the HRB means is that electromagnetic radiation and radio signals affect these enemy devices. That is, to identify and suppress their use. This uses the radiation or reflecting of such radiation from the enemy's air object. "If there is a tool, then it will also be found against it, nothing is impossible.
Of course, it all depends on the complex, if it is a geolocation, type GPS, with such ones can be combated, also with optical guidance heads, about inertial guidance - here It is more difficult, " - says the deputy director of the Army Research Center, conversion and disarmament on international issues, Mikhail Samus. Oleg Katkov notes that the prospect of domestic reb is, as in their further development.
However, the EWS is not currently a charming tool that is able to turn off all Russian winged missiles or turn them back to launch, but is able to reduce the effectiveness of their attacks. "Now we can say that the means of influencing the guidance systems are able to reject goals, but even a hundred meters in the city, it is still a hit.
The efficiency of the remedies of the HRS depends on the systems of guide the cruise missiles against which they interact-there are missiles that are really suppressed , but not, against which they act, " - says focus expert. Igor Romanenko disagrees with him, who believes that in theory it is technically possible to bring down the guidance and navigation of a hostile purpose and send it, conditionally, back. But such tasks are extremely difficult to perform.
According to experts, the remedies will not be able to completely replace the complexes of air and missile defense, but are able to much facilitate their work in the fight against Russian rockets. Today, this topic is extremely relevant, given that the number of rockets for Western systems, such as MIM-104 Patriot or SAMP/T, is decreasing. Romanenko emphasizes that in order to protect the territory of Ukraine as much as possible, it is necessary to build whole fields of the IIT.
This is theoretically possible, but practically - bizarre, given the size of the country and the presence of such means, even with the support of allies. It can be assumed that large infrastructure and strategic objects cover the HRS, except for air defense. It is clear that this can be seen on the example of Moscow: how they work when Ukrainian drones do not reach the goals and fall earlier. That is why goals for attacks were changed.
In Tuapse and Meadow, the Russians did not have time to put the EW, and the result for Ukraine was extremely successful. "Now we can say that defense forces use focal use and placement, it already allows to counteract with the enemy's air purposes. But the winged missiles pass such cells, and again cited for their own purposes. In the areas of work of the EWS, as a rule, inertial guidance systems are used and then go to others, " - explains expert Romanenko.
At the end of 2023, the Viceremier on Innovation, the Development of Education, Science and Technology - Minister of Digital Transformation, Mikhail Fedorov, reported that the task for the coming year was to create a "Army of the HR" by analogy with the "Army of Dron". It is expected to open a market and attract commercial players. At the same time, the Verkhovna Rada released the import of the components required for radar complexes, the means of the ER. , simplifying their import.