Why dont modern powers mass produce a mid effective and reliable not fancy manpad made entirely to bring down drones and cruise missiless.Russia could mass produce a slightly better version than the strela which Is around 5k cost to manufacture and it could be used anywhere from anti drone to anti fpv to anti cruise missile.Yet they dont seem to be doing it for some reason.If the bases attacked by spider web had a few manpads and guys with shootguns trying to slow down the drones instead of throwing rocks at them the outcome would have been very different yet they didnt for some reason.Also we ve seen ukranian succesfuly intercept slow low Flying cruise missiless with stingers, they even minched russian helos and some were used on their jets.You could even just strap them to a vehicle or helicopter and link them to a thermal camera to aquire the target and just let them do their work afterwards
>>65049341Todays wars are fought with yesterdays weapons
>>65049354Yeah, but strela is a cold war relic that russianshould easily be able to mass produce, its so fuckig simple it would be economicaly viable to fire 10 at a shaed.Compared to the archeotech they lost with spider web i struggle to see why they havent yet
>>65049359they can't produce it anymore. They don't make 80's electronics anymore. You can't JUST make them
>>65049341manpadsit's not plural
>>65049341Are MANPADS even capable of targeting/tracking/hitting small FPV drones?I suppose they make sense for Shaheds/Gerans which are largeish and fly at cessna speeds
>>65049359>As previously reported by TSAMTO, in November 2018, the Indian Ministry of Defense selected the Russian 9K338 Igla-S MANPADS>The cost of selling 5,175 missiles and 800 launchers was previously estimated at $1.5 billion.$290000 per missile.
>a mid effective and reliable not fancy manpad made entirely to bring down drones and cruise missiless.Something that does ok against a Shahed won't be all that cheap. Something that does well against cruise missiles really won't be cheap. Something that works well against an incoming lancet or FPV drone... you don't have the time to bring a MANPAD to bear on it before it hits so the MANPAD's performance is rather moot there.>Russia could mass produce a slightly better version than the strela which Is around 5k cost to manufacture When someone's behaviour doesn't make sense given your assumptions about what they can do a pretty basic first step is to go back and check if those assumptions actually hold true.
>>65049395Igla is probably the most advanced Russian manpad. comparable to the best NATO manpads
>>65049362>They don't make 80's electronics anymoreOh no, now they have to make it with cheaper, smaller and faster electronics.
>>65049341>Yet they dont seem to be doing it for some reason.Perhaps because real engineering is not that simple.
>wasting 100k missile on 100 dollar store drone
>>65049499>Oh no, now they have to make it with cheaper, smaller and faster electronicsThat's the neat part. 90% of their electronics are imported/smuggled
>>65049341MANPADS work at a distance of a few hundred yards to a few miles. Most FPV drones won't be noticed until there within a few hundred feet of a soldier. By then they're well-within the effective engagement range.The future is probably something like a small bird-sized drone that can be worn on soldier's helmet or sholder that will kamikaze into an incoming's rotor to knock it off course. My guess is you could use a passive sonic detection coupled with AI as a simple means of guidance.
