Which Defence Assets Can Stop An Iranian Shahed 136 Drone Swarm? (WARNING: Hugely Explosive) | DCS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- We simulate a huge swarm of 100 Iranian Shahed 136 drone against a static target. Then we test to see which ground defence assets can stop the swarm. We test: C-RAM, PGZ-09, Pantsir, Tor M2M, Type 26 Frigate, Type 45 Destroyer, Ticonderoga CMP Cruiser, NASAMS 3 and Patriot SAM.
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0:00 Overview
3:30 Control Run
6:58 4 x Centurion C-RAM
9:14 6 x PGZ-09 SPAAG
12:04 6 x Pantsir S2
18:04 7 x TOR M2M
22:33 1 x Type 26 Frigate
27:13 1 x Type 45 Destroyer
31:54 1 x Ticonderoga CMP Cruiser
35:30 Break for a spot of tea
38:13 1 x NASAMS
41:14 1 x MIM-104 Patriot
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The video of the Pantsir showed it failling to shoot down Storm Shadow, that could be an interesting video 2-3 Pantsirs vs a Storm Shadow attack.
The weapons systems in the sim are way to good compared to real life. They have done storm shadow before IIRC
Looks like Russia jammed about 4 storm shadow without detonating the warhead it was in the News today 🤔
There is a picture of a shot down storm shadow now. Idk what shot it down though.
@@jukebox_heroperson3994 didn't look shot down. warhead intact and no shrapnel on body. either a malfunction or it couldn't find its target and went to a safe place.
@@jukebox_heroperson3994 When they cannot find a target they land or EW warfare shot it down.
I hope this channel never dies out, this is my favourite channel to watch after a stressful day
Agreed; break up the day with a Grim Reapers lunch break.
Sadly Grim Reaper has already said that channels eventual death is inevitable due to YT's increased censorship.
He's made accounts on alternatives like Rumble where he uploads the same content.
Damn straight!...this channel is the only thing keeping me going!...🤪🤪
@@darthgamer2014 it's highly unlikely that GR or anyone is going to abandon the source of the vast VAST majority of thier viewers and also of potential new viewers, even if it's no longer their primary focus (which I am also skeptical of.) YT's policies are frustrating and counter-productive, but they are nearly the only game in town, and larger by quantum leaps.
Preach. GUaranteed relief via hilarious explosions.
That drone strike is terrifying even in a virtual world 😮😮
The mantis system from Germany would be interesting as well, as it's supposed to be a point defense weapon system, to defend against missiles and drones. It's much more modern than the r2d2 with a hard on and lots cheaper than a missile battery. Essentially it's designed for this job.
It’s the one with the shells that turn into shrapnel right?
@@SomuaSomua yeah, it shoots rounds that are programmed to explode somewhere before the target and release tungsten balls (I think).
I'm so disappointed he didn't even add it. There is no way he didn't hear of it. The one system with programmable high explosive proxy fused ammunition, designed to shoot down mortars and small drones in saturation attacks like this.It's the type of system he would have played at the end of the video to show how every type of technology is just an engineering problem with a cost effective solution out there.
Yep, the Rheinmetall Mantis firing AHEAD ammunition is made exactly for this kind of thing.
Ya Rheinmetall getting those Defence dimmadollars
It’s crazy such a cheap weapon can completely change battlefield tactics. I would like to see someone model the laser defenses, if there is enough publicly available information to model them.
And electronic warfare systems like the SEWIP.
Yup. I've sent Cap all the public details on laser weapons which are deployed and protecting overseas US bases right now. Raytheon did an interview plus training footage that provides pretty much all of the knowledge needed to simulate the in DCS. Unfortunately, I believe CH is trying to think of a workaround per the DCS code/mod-making capabilities, as they don't have any integrated support allowing for laser weapons.
Perhaps it would be like attempting to modify a new caliber of projectile minition within DCS, something like increasing the fire velocity to the speed of light, either a super-modified tracer for the fun factor of watching the laser beam in DCS or if needed, just going true to life with the invisible lasser/no tracer if that's the only way to do it. Then you have to figure out a firing speed of this lightspeed round to properly account for x damage per second to the item being hit. If it's a small drone for example, perhaps 2 to 4 seconds of this emulated laser fire must equal the hitpoints to kill that drone.
All of those assumptions are based on pure guesswork as to how DCS mods work and it's likely way more complex and/or restrictive, and therefore may not be possible to mod given current DCS.
Well yes and no what is overestimated here is the number of drones per attack
Russia got like 1750 of them they usually attack with like 6 because otherwise you could just make like 20 attacks before you run out
The latest directed energy weapons are game changers but so are drone swarms and / or stealth.
if every country will get c-rams and patroling GNS jamming Drones, then massive attack witch cheap simple weapon will be again in past
Hey Cap, I think WW2 ships with Flak would be really interesting if the Shrapnel is modelled. BR
that's what i was thinking, for swarms this dense with such slow, fragile targets some good old fashioned AAA. some german 88s or USN 127s.
Flak is the simple and economical answer to this problem for sure.
Actually that's a great idea
@@grimreapers 40 mm bofors guns would probably be enough but they would need to be layered from the beach and past the target buildings
@@MatsGarage@grimreapers Sweden has been sending 40mm Bofors emplacements to Ukraine to provide air defense coverage. It's something worth modeling in DCS to see if it has an appreciable impact on the Shahed swarms.
I hope Cap does more with these drone videos. Like maybe mountainous terrain next with a realistic amount of drones launched. This was very educational in an interesting concept mission.
I love the fact that the AI seagull just kept on flying around in the middle of a SAM launch site 😆
Seagull is on a bombing mission... 💩
Really living up to the "birds aren't real" conspiracy.
One of the nastiest attacks by them were for new year night here in Kyiv. Rockets during day and then shahed all night. 45 shaheds were taken down.
Cap, I think a really interesting challenge would be to give your beautiful boys and girls and Kortana a set budget and try and devise an IADS, put them all in the same map and see who's can resist increasingly powerful airstrikes. Obviously Kortana will win, but it could be fun to see what layers they come up with.
A few thermobaric missiles would do the trick. Not only would they have a huge blast radius, but they would choke out the swarm's air-breathing engines.
Love videos like these!
great video, thanks alot to you both . . . keep-um coming. 👍
Cap, you missed using iron dome which was designed to take out unguided rockets and artillery shells. I would think that system should be able to handle a swarm. A typical battery has 3-4 launchers with 20 missiles each. So having 2 batteries would be able to do it or one battery with a couple extra launchers.
Just bring back the "punt gun"!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt_gun
it's the only production system that have actual proven experience taking down huge swarms, but I doubt dcs has a realistic model
@@raph151515 it does, made by IDF mods project
Wow the recoil on that thing must be shoulders...
@@grimreapers in fact it was so good that it almost had the europen bird population extinct.
Great episode! Keep it up!
That is an awesome video, more of this 👍🏻
Pretty much a 100000+ dollar impressive expression!
M61A1 Vulcan with the air pattern barrel set. It's a bullet hose with the nozzle set to "spray". Problem solved. It was designed to close the Fulda Gap to air traffic.
Ok, IT programmer guy talk here. One of the problems of AA guns vs swarm of drones is that these AA defenses do not have any good algorithms for maximaxing damage against swarms. They always just target one drone, fire, wait until dead and THEN target the next. There are two big improvements possible that I believe are definitelly going to end in more modern AA guns.
1) Fire a volley on first drone and DO NOT wait until destroyed and immediatelly go fire a volley on second drone.
2) You can actually find in the swarm pattern structures where a volley of bullets have a chance of hitting more than a single drone and prioritize that one.
Techniquest like these can significantly increase defense against drone swarms and tehy are purelly on software upgrade to the systems. But you will NEVER get that in something like DCS because these algorithms are significantly more resource hungry and I do not think you would like minus 10 FPS just so that some AA can simulate a bit less brainless targeting algorithm in a game.
I'm surprised that gull can get off the ground with the size of it's balls.
^^ this
I would just like to say that Current Hill makes the best mod
Loving the droningtons vijeo
Great video idea cap, never stop the great content!
Good to see my beloved Tico's do really well.
Hugely explosive!!!!!! Was what brought me here
I love how the American cruiser instantly made a MacDonalds M. So perfect
Its realy realy womderful channel and video
This right here is some fun and applicable science!! The swarm by a relatively inexpensive drone or missile is going to be more widely used on the battlefield of the future in my opinion, and finding good combinations of effective and inexpensive defense against swarm threats is going to be vital to any modern military!! I freaking love when Super Cap and CH drop some knowledge on us valued viewingtons!! Thank you!!
The most advanced form of attack will be to use both simultaneously.
البته درست است داداش ولی این همه اقدام ،الهام گیری ازایران است که تنهاچیزهای میلیون ویامیلیارددلاری که درتمام رسانه هابزگ نمائیش میکنندواورابی همتامینامندکه واقعاهم آن چیزی که تسلیحات ناتورابی همتاکرده فقط ظاهرشیک وقیمت بسیارزیادش هست،که باتبلیقات گسترده آن رارونمایی میکنندوکشورهای که فریب میخورندآنهارامیخرنداماایران درجنگ اوکراین باپهباد(شاهد۱۳۶) ثابت کردکه هیچ چیزی به شک وقیافه نیست واولش اردیبهشت باشی کل اروپاغرب ناتومخصوصاترکیه که به بیرقدارخودمیبالیدوکلی بزرگ نمایی کردوبه اوکراین فرستادپهبادایران رامسخره میکردندومیگفتندمتورسیکلت ایران ولی بعدازاین که بیرقداررانابودکردوتمام تانک نفربرزرهی وچیزهای دیگررابادقت ونقطه زنی نابودکردوردزبانهاشدوتااکنو۱۵۶کشورپهادشاهر۱۳۶رابه ایران سفارش داده انددوتای آنها(چین وروسیه،بعلاوه ی هندوکره ی شمالی )خریداری کردکه هرکدام بیش از۱۵۰هزارتاشفارش داده اندودربلاروس+تاجیکستان+ودرچندکشوردیگرکارانه اش راراه اندازی کرده اندوحالادنیاازایران وتمام تسلیحات ایران دارندالگومیگیرندازجمله(ناتو)ودرکره ی شمالی دررزمایش نظامی چندروزپیشش ازپهبادایرانی که نسخهی بومی سازی ومهندسی معکوس شده ی آمریکایی واسرائیلی رابهترازنسخه ی اصلیش باچنیدین موشک دوربردهوابه هواوهوابه زمین ایرانی درزیربال های پهابادهای ایران درکره ی جنوبی رونمایی کردندالبته ماراکه شمابه پارس هامیشناسیدزیادخوشمان نمی آیدازخودمان تعریف کنیم فقط کفتم که عادت کنی ازایران بخاطرالگوبخشیدن به جنگ بانگ افزارهای بسارارزان ولی دوربردونقطه زن ورادارگیرزازجمله(استراتژیک ویاددادن جنگ نامتعارف بسارموفق وغیرغابل باورازسوی شماست رابه وجدآورده باشدودوباره من من نکنیدویکبارتشکرکنیدبخاطراین خلاقیت بی نظر🎉
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Patriot batteries can be even bigger, however, they are rarely used like that. The only time they are is when each launcher/set of launchers are dispersed miles or dozens of miles away from each other over an entire battlespace rather a smaller portion.
Properly scary that number of drones coming at you
Grim Reapers, slowly turning DCS World into Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator, one AI-controlled slugfest at a time.
Carry on chaps, good show.
CH’s chuckles make my day. I wonder how a QF-2 naval gun would fare against Shahed?
This game is friggin amazing!
I seem to remember from other sims that you've run that a hundred of anything, missiles or drones, are the threshold for air defense systems.
Multiple units can multiply fire, but they also run into deconflict problems.
"If someone upsets the Iranians" Cap being Nostradamus
I'd love to see CH's take on the 35mm Millennium gun with AHEAD ammunition.
Reminds me of the swarm drones in “Angel Has Fallen”
I remember. They were full AI drones, these are cheap dumb drones.
science with CH, nice.
got those patntsir guns sound so cool
Jeez, The American Cruiser "HOLD MY BEER, I GOT THIS!".....just smashed em all....Ohhh Yurrrr!
Time: 4:30ish, they are in fact very good against ships and have made several successful attacks against them in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea since 2021ish. There are multiple seeker options.
I wish CH would model the DART ammunition. Perfect for anti-swarm, or point defense in general.
It's a 76mm naval gun round, guided, with >8km effective range.
Good 'ole WWII era Triple-A flak is what these things need, bring the flak back!
Would not surprise me if there is already in development or testing a shahed variant that can switch to a SEAD mode when targeted or relay that role to another drone in the swarm or even communicate the approximate position of the AA back home.
This was amazing.
I thoght about the sinuswave function. However small these drones are an surly in a situation of the radarsystem may AI confirmed birdswarm. Like birds. It simply dissergard it as a very large "birdswarm" until the "birds" were all going to your exact possition. Coolest vids out there And CV really awsome works. You and Cap should rock on cause this is really interestingv and cool stuff.
As many viewers said you forgot the idf iron dome . Looking forward to seeing that.
Amazing!
the only thing I think was wrong was the launching. They launch from the botton one to the top one in order to avoid the rockte assisted launch from burning the botton ones
41:00 patriot operator here, we fight as battalions not batteries, so that is realistic, also we can reload the missile tubes quick enough given the right tools
You should try put a couple of World War 2 battleships such as the Yamato In there, Because they had so many anti aircraft guns on them, It would just light up the sky. Because they were made to defend against swarms of planes. We have seen the battleships knockout cruise missiles in some of your other videos, So I would love to see what they are capable of in this.
Hi Cap and CH, great to see the British ships. The upcoming Type 31 Frigate would be interesting with its 1x 57mm Bofors and 2x 40mm Bofors cannons offering full broadside engagement with programmable fragmentation ammunition. The 57mm rounds have a particularly large fragmentation area which may even be large enough for several drones at once (I do wonder if in real life the swarm would be spread over a larger distance though coming from different angles?) and an impressive rate of fire. Also to be fitted with Sea Ceptor missiles albeit only 12 or 24 (TBC?). The now confirmed 32x Mk41 VLS could be fitted with Aster anti air missiles to support the Type 45s as 'bomb trucks' if you will, they will lack the advanced fire control to launch Asters themselves (thats all just internet chatter so take with a pinch of salt and assume the Mk41 will be used for cruise missiles if we get any....).
The Type 31 been a lower cost and lower tech Frigate than the likes of the Type 26 and designed for lower tech adversaries for example dealing with gun boat swarms in the gulf could have a good go at something like this, and consider you can probably get 3 for the price of 1 Type 26 or 45. You could also use it against the gun boats swarms you modelled in previous videos? I believe these ships were previously ear marked for more low level duties but sounds like having one with the carrier group would be a good idea to guard against any swarm attacks and to save them precious Asters for another day.....
Awesome!
The radars may not be able to differentiate individual targets with large swarms. Kind of like large clouds of chaff. It might not be a bad strategy for drones in swarm attacks to have radar reflectors to increase the number of radar returns the defending sites need to process reducing their accuracy. Like how the Qail decoy could mimic formations of B-52s.
I do know that Modern Spy 1 and Spy 6 radars can differentiate individual targets in swarms, but I am unfamiliar with the capabilities of other systems. I doubt mobile land based ones can though.
Radar relectors (Luneburg lense) doesn't increase the number of radar returns, it just makes the returns bigger. The ADM-20 Quail used reflectors to make itself appear to be the size of a bomber. Also, for stealth aircraft in times of peace use radar reflectors to make their RCS return much bigger in order to keep their actual signature a secret.
The US does have the newer ADM-160 MALD (Miniature Air-Launched Decoy), which has been sent to Ukraine. It's not really miniature, as it's like 9 feet, but only a few hundred pounds. What makes it cool is, it carries jammers too, so you can jam radar and communication nodes. It can loiter over an area for up to an hour, you can adjust reflector size so it could look like a missile or a fighter jet to fit the need (even make it maneuver like a jet would). You can send a big swarm of them to help ensure the real missiles or kamikaze drones have higher success. Ukraine is using them to help Storm Shadow success. US has even newer models coming (or perhaps operational, I'm not sure) that are a bit smaller I believe but can still appear bigger if desired, with better electronic warfare sweets and datalink capabilities, and the ability to carry warheads to make use of at the end of their fuel, and I think they might include the ability to return to safety to be reused.
The thing is, these decoy missiles are cheap relative to a Storm Shadow, at like $30k per decoy, but the Shahed might only be like $10k. Also, these decoy missiles are all much faster than drones, so they couldn't really disguise themselves as Shaheds, but they could pose as more important priority targets and help to deplete the air-defense systems ammo. For the price it would just be better to have a bigger swarm of Shahed drones to be honest, that's the name of the game with them.
@wolfmaster0579 There's a gentleman on TH-cam here that goes by the title of habituallinecrosser, who says he was part of the US Air defense corps for 10 years on the patriot system.
He did a video looking at the S-400s compared to the Patriot and if I recall, his biggest issue with the ability of the S-400s was that yes, the radar may be able to see as far as they claim- however, given the size of the radar and the power they have available, it will likely only be a low fidelity image. The patriot radar meanwhile may not see as far, but because of how much more concentrated it is, it's a much higher fidelity radar allowing it to have better targeting against the extremely small RCS by comparison as well as swarms.
@@user-gv4zb9rc6u I am aware of his channel and love his videos, although I have not watched everything. I am much more familiar with sea-based systems of the US navy and allies, not so much land-based ones. The reason I believed that mobile land-based systems might not have the same fidelity was because of power requirements. A ship or large stationary land-based system has a lot of power available to it, therefore allowing it to see much farther with greater fidelity than land-based mobile systems. I guess I need to do a little more research.
@@wolfmaster0579 ship based radar will indeed have better fidelity over a long range most of the time, especially if it's a nuclear powered ship, simply because of power volume for sure. That's why, for example, the Gerald R. Ford has such a comprehensive layered radar system alone and still has a fair bit of left over power for modernization if I recall.
However, that's why for Patriot the range is reduced compared to S-400 or SPY-6, as far as I'm aware, the fidelity is above an S-400 and perhaps on par or just behind a SPY-6.
"You have to fire and then see if you've hit before firing again, you can't just fire constantly"
Laughs in WW2 Iowa class 9000 peice AA defense consisting of:
20x radar guided Flak firing 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal guns
80x Bofors 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
49× Oerlikon 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns
Be interesting to see that.
The seagull just chilling
Problem; it would take one hell of a lot of launchers and VERY good coordination between them to get a swarm that dense. IMHO, it would be more like a stream than a swarm.
This is great - it would be good to test drone effectiveness during rough weather to see how they get blown around vs the impact of weather on radar that you saw in your Moskva video.
The Royal Navy Sailors just chilling manning the guns on the bow of the destroyer. Hilarious 😂.
Two things I would have liked to see here would be an Arleigh Burke, and any of the ships backed up by a couple of ground-based Phalanx/C-RAM systems.
Saudi Arabia Deploys Silent Hunter Laser Air Defense Systems Against Houthi Drones. The s output power of "Silent Hunter" is 30 kilowatts and the maximum range is 4000 meters. It is said that at a distance of 800 meters, it can burn through 5 layers of 2 mm thick steel plates, and at a distance of 1000 meters, it can burn through 5 mm thick steel plates. Saudi Arabia proudly announced that the "Silent Hunter" laser air defense system purchased from China has achieved the first shot down under actual combat conditions.
For the cruiser Aegis is used for detection and the illuminators (4 satellite dishes on top) are for guidance to target. Not sure on classification (couldn't find anything with the correct number) so well just say that illuminators dictate the number of missiles that can be in flight at time. Crazy how accurate this was though. I was looking for the directors to be pointing at targets and amazingly they were.
The ship can ripple launch and move the directors from destroyed missile to next target whilst the other missiles are in flight.
The Australian CEA’s CEAMOUNT phased array illuminator can significantly enhance this even more and can direct 4 targets electronically per panel.
With 4 fixed panels covering 360 degrees on each ship that's a lot of missiles/aircraft that can be targeted and rippling targeting works as well, thus well over 16 targets at once.
This little frigate and the future Hunter (RAN Type 26) class can lock on to 4 times more targets than an Arleigh Burke Destroyer. Remember tracking and targeting are two different things.
@@LeonAust Agreed an aegis cruiser can track a couple hundred targets at a time with SPY however for terminal guidance the illuminator is needed. If the illuminator track is lost (during terminal homing) after a specified amount of time the missile will self destruct as intended for safety reasons. But yes depending on target distance and time of flight multiple sm2 / sm6s can be fired with illuminators only needed on terminal phase. And of course as they add new iterations they add active seekers but that falls well outside of my wheelhouse.
This experiment is like a big ad for directed energy weapons
Have you seen the articles describing Ukraine using updated/ modernized quad mounted M1910 Maxim machine guns to take down drones?
They specifically mention it is used against the Shahed-136
140 years old but water cooled so it can run for days, and fires 7.62x54mm round.
That's amazing.
It's deeply ironic how effective these drone are given their history. The Iranian Shahed-136 are based on the Israeli Harop drones (first released in 1989), but with downgraded systems to make them cheaper (and half as fast as the original because they have a larger warhead). This means that this threat has actually been out there for decades, but it really didn't catch on until recently, largely because the US had the IDF ban export of this sort of drone to most nations. Also, they were initially designed for SEAD operations, as a sort of loitering, low-visibility anti-radiation munition, which could isolate enemy air defenses and take them offline before real aircraft could operate over the theater. In another deep irony, the Harop was designed to defeat the S-300 and S-400 systems that Israel's enemies use (eg. Iran, Syria, etc), and so the Iranian Shahed-136 drones are actually perfectly suited to defeat the Ukrainian S-300 systems.
It would be hard to program in, but the IDF uses a combination of the Iron Dome, and a proprietary EW/jammer system that disrupts their ability to coordinate. As nobody understands exactly how that EW system works, it's not exactly something that can easily be quantified. So far, they are the only group that has demonstrated a high level of effectiveness in mitigating these drones, as the Ukrainians have had a hard time, and the Saudis have completely failed. As of yet, the US hasn't had an opportunity to face a deployment of these drones with our own systems, and so a lot of that matchup is speculation.
Enjoyed the vid, but I do have a question.
In each scenario you showed a single system, (apart from the ships) but there wasnt a scenario where a layered defence took them on - something that would be more appropriate to a real life scenario.
Be interesting to see a mix of different types of systems in more realistic numbers try to defeat the swarm
I thought the same. And having CIWS behind or at the target so it's always looking forward.
I wonder if the mid air explosions are creating 'chaff' clouds that screen following drones for a bit?
Well done 😊
I don't know why I find these videos so good to watch after a mentally chaotic day.
Also, anyone else want to go into business creating discounted machines of war? I don't believe this stuff actually costs that much to make - its all R&D and results in massive corporate profit. If bet i could make one of those for $5,000 or less.
How about Iron Dome? I think it might do fairly well, given that it was designed to counter swarm tactics.
I think it'll be effective, with a few getting through
Yh but that's if they were only sending drones .. if they had missiles coming from behind them at the same time it's gonna be even more difficult
Not only was it designed to deal with swarm tactics, but the Shahed-136 are actually bootleg copies of the Israeli Harop swarm drones that have been in use since 1989. Thus, the IDF is uniquely situated to deal with the Shahed--is just their Harop with half the max speed, a slightly higher yield, and significantly worse controls/electronics.
@@theprogressivecynic2407 interesting.
@@TimvanderVelden-dp3fs Yeah, it's brutally ironic that the Russian have had so much success using the Shaheds against the Ukrainian S-300 air defenses because they are based on drones that were designed to defeat S-300 and S-400 systems in Iran and Syria.
Use flak guns. The area of effect of large caliber flak may fix the cost of weapon versus cost of shoot down problem. I think you should have some radar guided large caliber Soviet flak available to use in the game. Proximity fuses would increase the effectiveness even more.
Extremely satisfying video. But would like to suggest you something, please try putting up a mixture of systems like a realistic scenario. Some ships, some coastal defence, some radar guided guns, etc. It would be realistic as well as fun.
In real life, they can circle around the target for a long time and attack it from different directions.
In real life, they get shot at by all kinds of small calibre weapons while flying around near ground level. You don't want them flying around in regions with any kind of military units for too long.
@@NimmermaerSmall Arms 101: There is a huge bullet drop that you cannot easily shoot at any flying object.
@@aminabbaszadeh1066 Shaheds fly very low to avoid radar and get shot down by small arms all the time.
Of course it's hard, but the volume of fire matters. In addition, machine guns have been converted to AA use.
New to your channel and really enjoying the videos. Have you done a simulation of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo? As I'm not familiar with the capabilities of all the aircraft, is there a modern aircraft that could launch from the Hornet and successfully complete the raid?
Are you the same guy who does venom geek the startrek ship channel ....love both of them keep up the great work 👏
Great Show! CH= Fun times with boom boom.
@supercap - what about helicopters? Apache, Kamov, any with larger caliber machine/chain guns...
That'll motivate us to get laser defenses done and deployed.
Another thing about the Ticonderoga class, they could follow up and powder the Shahad launchers.
11:30 Danger Will Robinson!
Very cool
Rheinmetall’ Skynex is the one for drones. got the guns with fancy ammo and the skynet missiles plus lasers. Task and purpose did a nice video recently of the lasers in combat usage at the moment.
some great footage online of the pantsir missing drones with its gun. They didn't shoot the storm shadow down.
Sadly we can't simulate that smart ammo :(
@@grimreapers Just not good enough Cap
How did Russia shoot down a storm shadow🤔
That's interesting. 👍👾
i think that all the C-uav systems shown here are working solely when they should work in sync like that : once the swarm of drones is detected we should have a master commander assigning to each C-uav a kill zone to treat and once this zone treated another zone is assigned. in this scenario there is master C-uav assigning targets to others so two C-uav will never try to shoot at one drone at the same time. Nice simulation by the way thank you this show the importance of joint operation with a unified communication of defensive and offensice systems..
For a cost effective defence what you need is a mobile gun platform that can fly at a similar altitude and speed. AC-130 for might do it, B-17 would be my preferred historic option.
Good thing I love Hugely Explosive
Lol yeah Cap U.S. also has several different "drone swarms" couple examples Navy's LOCUST and Army's Switchblade ;)
CH Please create The Stryker IM-Shorad and if possible DE M-Shorad!
I bet a combination of C-Ram and Avenger Air Defense System would work!
I really feel like a lot of these gun systems could've destroyed the swarm with a simple software update. Instead of the single target focused mode where they stop to verify that their target is destroyed, a lot of these systems could be programmed to take a few shots at every swarm target in the sky before looping back to the first target within the swarm. I wonder if a lot of these gun system operators will be taught to recognize swarms in the future and to switch their engaging modes to some hypothetical anti-swarm mode that focuses on distributed effect instead of a concentrated one.
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I would really like to see if my beautiful British CSG can defend against x200 of these drones as they move through the Persian Gulf please. x200 drones to attack the QE Carrier, defended by x4 T45 and x2 T26. Might require some quad-packed Sea Cepter. Please make that one happen, Super Cap. Loving the work as always!
I love you people!
I hope you guys have seen the new DCS F-15E simulator.....it looks absolutely amazing
the 9,700-ton Flight III Burke-class destroyer and 9,600-ton Ticonderoga-class cruiser, yet smaller than the 15,700-ton Zumwalt-class (DDG 1000) land-attack destroyer.
Is it even a "land-attack" platform anymore?
@@Just_A_Random_Desk no its a new tech test bed platform.
Do the C-RAM's in game have the electro-optical capabilities of the shipboard version of PHALANX modeled? The Surface Mode Upgrade for PHALANX was specifically tested with drone aircraft.
iron dome?
I didn't know if it's in the game but the modernized version of the Iowa battleship would be fire to see.
I doff my hat to the stoic seagull who kept flying around despite the inferno erupting around it!
Would the ships do better bow on to the swarm or firing broadside
Take the LCS and retool them to a swarm interceptor. A couple CRAMs, a few Iron Dome style box launchers, some ACs, miniguns.
Agree
I wish the scoreboard was for all of them so that we could see what they spent defeating (or not) the swarm. I wonder if in real life they could do a trajectory and then math and decide that the $2B warehouses aren't worth $6B in missiles and future exposure.... Like the Tico captain saying nope, not gonna do it, the next swarm might be at me...
As an Iranian, I heard that these drones where specifically designed to combat ships in the Persian golf, and 500 were deployed in and around Bandar Abbas.
It could also be propaganda. The regime is like that of Putin.
No, ironically, they are a bootleg of the Israeli Harop drones that were designed for SEAD operations (suppression of enemy air defenses). Basically, they are meant to swarm a battlefield, locate anti-air systems, and destroy them so that jets can have full reign. Those kinds of loitering munitions have multiple secondary purposes, including saturation strikes against armored targets.
Iran had enough Harop fired at their assets that they managed to collect a couple intact, which let them reverse engineer them. Look up the Harop drone (released in 1989) and you will immediately see the similarities.
You would asume that the military upgrades their profiles with 'anti swarm mode' algorythems.
where you just que targets and engage under optimal conditions without waiting for a kill and optimizing movment more like a CNC or 3D printer (less movment and more work being done) maybe have a goal keeper unit for everything that made it through. You can see here that units get stuck on a target they fail to kill or track in time
43:35 THE FREE BIRD