Drone has played an important role in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which has increased further in recent times. Russia, who is attacking within Ukraine, is using deadly drones indiscriminately. Recently, that is, on June 1, Russia targeted Ukraine cities, attacking the biggest drone in a day. According to the Ukraine Air Force, he faced an attack of 472 unmanned drones (OWA) in one night, attacking and destroyed. However, this record may not remain longer for a long time as the previous record was made on 26 May when Russia carried out 355 drone attacks. Earlier, Russia attacked 298 Shahid drones and created a new record. Russia is now increasing the number of drones so that Ukraine is baffled. Although Russia is surprised for others’ attacks with OWA drones on a large scale, but this is the result of the Russian army’s hard work.
Let us tell you that Russia initially bought Shahid Drone from Iran and later set up a factory in 2023 to assemble these unmanned drones designed by Iran in their country. More control over production gave Russia an opportunity to produce a large number of Shahid drones. This also helped him to advance his drone gradually. The investigation of the dropped Shahid drone has been reported that Russia is putting a carbon layer on the drone so that the coming waves can be absorbed instead of reflecting them so that they do not get caught by the radar. They are also adding SIMs to them so that these drone figures can be sent back to the form through mobile networks.
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Mukhastra to be installed in Shahid has also been updated. Ukraine’s media stated on 20 May that Shahid is being used in a new fire and disintegrated mouthpiece which first set fire and then spread a large amount of shrapnel to increase their effects. These changes were effective to keep the price of the drone in a range, which is its major positive side than the missile. These drones are both cheap and long distance. This means that every month hundreds of attacks in Ukraine like Russia can do how many of its drones fall.
Meanwhile, the protecting these attacks is considering how to kill all the upcoming drones at a reasonable cost. The problem becomes even more complicated by the fact that air defense systems on the advance front are extremely needed to kill the enemy aircraft, making these drones to a more difficult challenge. Recently, the production of pseudo Shahid drone has increased the problem even further as they do not have any maintenance and they do not pose any threat, but Ukraine’s air defense system often does not distinguish between these pseudo and drones from these pseudo -maladies and in such a situation everyone needs to be killed. Also, 472 drone attacks by Russia a day reflects all innovations of Russia so far. This has increased the number of drones that avoid the enemy’s targets, improves firepower, as well as using armed drones as well as pseudo drones to ensure that more and more drones reach their targets.
The question arises that what are the challenges before Ukraine?
Ukraine has killed most of the coming Shahid drones. He claimed that out of 472 drones, he killed 382. Thus its success rate is 81 percent. However, the rate of killing these Shahid drones relatively less reflects its success rate. The cost of Shahid drone is low according to military parameters. Therefore, there is an inconsistent burden on Ukraine’s air defense systems by continuous attacks. Kiev has gathered huge amounts of resources to protect her cities, using relatively inexpensive anti -aircraft missiles from mobile units posted on trucks to Shahid drones. As stated, the firepower of these systems is for limited distance. In such a situation, a large number of such air defense systems have to be deployed in a large country like Ukraine to prevent drone attacks; Due to which each drone is negligible than the cost of savings deployment.
Ukraine also has the option to attack Russia’s Shahid drone production factories, which he has tried several times. Despite the strong air defense of Ukraine, Russia still seems to be benefiting on military basis in Shahid drone attacks. Last year, a study emerged the fact that in 2022 and 2023, Russia’s early OWA drone strategy helped Ukraine very little to force the war to end the war on Russia’s suitable terms. The same situation may happen now, but the number of drones and the rapid speed of attacks means that the Russian strategy may aim to weaken the air protection of Ukraine in a systematic manner.
If seen, Ukraine is struggling with a cloud of doubt hovering over American military aid. Therefore, there is a danger of termination of ammunition for its advanced air defense systems on Kiev. This means that the constant Shahid drone attacks make it more difficult to stop the missiles coming for Ukraine, which are equipped with very large mouths. Ukraine definitely has its own version of Shahid drone, which he uses to attack Russian military and oil facilities regularly. Ukraine has less information about OWA drones, but they often use many characteristics similar to Shahid such as satellite -based mause. However, Shahid drone is not used only for military benefits for President Vladimir Putin in Russia. It also has political interest for them. Putin has used Shahid drone attacks to make the Russian public realize his strength.