NATO and Ukraine Crowdsource Cheap Ways to Trash Russian Airfields
Trying to shoot down glide bombs from hundreds of kilometers away is pure madness, so the plan is officially shifting from catching arrows to smashing the archer.
Russian jets have been tossing guided glide bombs from increasingly absurd distances, making regular air defense interception practically impossible. So the joint JATEC center and AFU General Staff decided to stop chasing every single bomb and focus on cheap, reliable ways to take out the airfields they launch from.
Together with NATO Allied Command Transformation, they launched an open contest for Ukrainian and international engineers to build runway-denial tech. Whether it is swarm drones or some wild new gadget, the goal is simple: ground the fleet without blowing through million-dollar missiles. The finals hit Warsaw this autumn, but Russian mouthpieces like Zakharova and Solovyov already started throwing tantrums at the mere mention of the website going live.
Nothing validates a new defense initiative quite like the enemy having a full public meltdown before anyone has even submitted a prototype.
Source: Ukrinform
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