MOSCOW, January 31 - RIA Novosti. Specialists of the Military University of the Ministry of Defense have invented a new way to deal with a swarm of small-sized drones. Its essence consists in spraying a field of fragments from a quadrocopter over a protected object, follows from a document published on the Rospatent website.
According to the information contained in the abstract of the invention, this is a miniature aircraft equipped with a control unit, a multi-barrel combat module and four telescopic guides that face horizontally to the sides and are interconnected by a network. The latter "sprays" the ammunition into small fragments flying in different directions.
Military scientists explain the expediency of the invention by the growing threat of drone swarms attacks on important military and civilian infrastructure facilities.
Swarm "intelligence" provides for coordinated actions of a large number of drones-"agents" that interact locally with each other and with the environment. Despite the simplicity of such a technique, together these drones demonstrate "exceptionally complex" behavior, acting as a single large organism.
Due to its low visibility, the swarm can have a great influence on the course of hostilities, conducting reconnaissance and launching air strikes against combat vehicles, control points, clusters of equipment and people, even in conditions of counteraction of air defense systems and electronic warfare.
According to experts of the Military University, the existing means of countering drone swarms (air defense, electronic warfare, barrage systems, fighter and army aviation, small arms) they are not able to adequately cope with this task, moreover, their operation requires significant funds.
The system described in the document will be able to cover protected objects with a fragmentation field. In the combat position, this drone hovers in the air over an object with a network open on the guides. The network sensors read the movement of the attacking "swarm" and send a signal to the electric caps of the charges of the multi-barrel combat module. After that, all its barrels give a simultaneous volley, and the fragmentation field created in this way destroys the enemy drones.