Ukraine has developed the A-Whacks plane to shoot down incoming suicide drones with cheap air defense weapons. See? Not all my notions are impractical.
Ukraine already mounted a 7.62 mini-gun on a An-28 transport to successfully shoot down drones. This improvement is outstanding:
As depicted in a new video montage, the same An-28 is now launching 3D-printed SkyFall P1-Sun interceptor drones from an underwing hardpoint.And if I do say so myself, an idea I suggested two years ago based on using APKWS rockets on a radar plane able to detect the incoming drones, and dubbed it A-Whacks:
The rocket can go nearly 7 miles when fired from aircraft. A lot could be packed into a commercial airliner converted to an air defense aircraft, right? There could also be a smaller number of longer-range sophisticated air-to-air missiles carried.
The concept is working. With suicide air-to-air drones rather than APKWS. But that's a mere detail.
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