President Putin’s Guards Now Carry Handheld Anti-Drone Weapons After Multiple Security Breaches
Eastern Europe and Central Asia , Aircraft and Anti-Aircraft
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal security team has been seen carrying a new class of anti-drone weapon while accompanying him. One officer reportedly attempted to obscure the unknown but highly conspicuous new system from public view, although its size made concealment difficult. The weapon appears to be an infantry-operated interceptor with a four-motor cross configuration and a dual-sensor targeting system, and is thought to be manually directed in its initial targeting phase, before using a thermal imaging and television-guided seeker head to autonomously engage its target. The fielding of this new weapon follows multiple very serious security breaches by Ukrainain drone units, with one of the most significant being the historically unprecedented attacks on major strategic bomber facilities across Russia on June 1 under Operation Spider’s Web, which engaged targets as deep as 4000 kilometres away from Ukrainian borders using drones smuggled into and launched from Russian territory.
President Putin was personally caught in a large scale Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Kursk region on May 20, with local commanders recalling that he was at the epicentre of repelling a large-scale attack by the enemy’s drones.” A failed drone attack was launched on his residence in Moscow on May 2, 2023. After multiple successful strikes on Russian targets including the capital Moscow were launched in early-mid 2023, CEO of the state owned defence conglomerate Rostec, Sergey Chemezov, stated on August 7, 2023, that work was underway to develop superior means of detecting small low speed drones, which had proven capable of evading air defences.
The procurement of new handheld anti-drone systems by President Putin’s personal security team may represent part of this response. Footage released by Russian media outlets in late May has also shown that the Chinese-made Silent Hunter 3000 laser system has been procured for frontline use to defend against drone attacks. There remains a significant possibility that they new anti-drone systems used by the president’s guards may also be of Chinese origin, with the country’s global leadership in drone and anti-drone technologies making it an invaluable supplier.
They guards outside his bedroom door and outside his bedroom window will need anti-drone weapons.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe he will have to sleep in a windowless bunker 60 feet deep, halfway to Hades ,which is his final destination.