Originally published at: Ukraine Buys Drone-Fighting LSA - AVweb
The Czech ULM Shark is fitted with drone detection and jamming gear.
Not sure what Rotax is in the Shark that Ukraine is buying, but Rotax doesn’t make a fuel-injected (is) 914 engine. Maybe a 100hp 912is, a 141hp 915is or a 160hp 916is.
Ukraine is not buying and cannot buy anything. The US taxpayer pays for everything Ukraine attempts to acquire. Ukraine is militarily defeated on the verge of total collapse. Ukraine does not have a fleet of anything let alone a "fleet " of aircraft.
I am sure there are a lot of EU LSA aircraft being considered by EU/NATO countries for potential anti-drone mods, considering their penchant for war with Russia. But drone warfare is evolving at an incredible rate, far faster than any manned aircraft civilian or military could possibly maintain let alone surpass.
Who will fly a 1500-2000lb composite/carbon fiber LSA with little to no protection against a modern military drone remains to be seen. To me it appears suicidal… payed for by the hardworking US taxpayer. But like Lindsey Graham has repeatedly said, as long as someone else dies other than Americans, the US is getting a bargain for our unaccounted and uncountable bucks fresh off the printing press and so far, endlessly being sent overseas.
Ukraine is already using an LSA as a drone as an offensive weapon and has tried to modify it against drone attacks. Not working out well at all in either case. We have paid for that debacle too.
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They seem to be doing some cool stuff with the Shark: https://youtu.be/Woa-kgluDeU
How is the weather in St Petersburg today, comrade?
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You seem to have a single notion of what a military drone is like.
Nice rant. Feel better now having gotten all that off your chest? Actually, do Russian bots have chests?
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The US is far from the only backer of Ukraine. They have been supported by donations and loans from the EU, the UK, most NATO countries, including Canada. They’ve been given loans, iterest on Russian assets that have been seized and they still have their own internal economy and income from exports. Thats why the ports around Odessa and it’s safe route for shipping through the Black Sea are so important.
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