Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Gepard.

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Gepard SPAAG [self-propelled anti-aircraft gun] 35 mm to the rescue Ukraine?

Gepard the IDEAL weapon for combatting the Irainian Shahed-136 suicide drone?

Gepard a Cold War era weapon system with a mission vital.

"The little-known weapon knocking down Iranian drones over Kyiv"

From www.yahoo.com | Paul McLeary | January 4, 2023. 

"Ukraine is swatting away as many Iranian-made drones as Russia can throw at its infrastructure sites, knocking down as many as 80 air vehicles over Kyiv during Russia’s surprise New Year’s Eve blitz alone, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week."

"So how did they do it? According to Ukrainian officials and advisers to Kyiv who spoke to POLITICO, much of it is thanks to the German-made Gepard [cheetah] system, a vehicle that can send dual streams of 35mm rounds ripping into the sky to hit the drones. Berlin has sent 30 Gepard vehicles to Ukraine over the past year, with seven more on the way this year."

This graphic from Binkov:

The Ukrainian still has mothballed Soviet era SPAAG Shilka ZSU-23-4 in their inventory? These Shilka also have anti-drone shoot-down capability comparable to the Gepard?

The Ukrainian does have a number of overhauled and upgraded Shilka and potentially in goodly numbers. Ukrainian vital infrastructure especially the electrical grid can be defended!

The solution to the threat of the Shahed-136 suicide drone easily remedied? I make it sound so easy?

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