L’Ucraina presenta il suo nuovo drone lancia-reti “Ptashka”

Ptashka is Ukrainian for bird

Source: https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1818986534323863648

Raises the question of how often drone pilots have enemy drones in visual range. A year ago, I would have told you that a drone-on-drone fight was so rare that a pilot’s time would be better spent flying offensive sorties, including hunting enemy drone operators – which seems to have been a very successful strategy for 🇺🇦.

But the airspace over the front will only continue to get more crowded, so maybe we’ve reached a tipping point of sorts, where defensive flight patterns and the use of this sort of cheap air-to-air weapon could be as effective in protecting infantry, on an hourly or per-unit basis, as strikes on the other side of the zero line?