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Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I've sometimes thought that WW2 flak cannons (~artillery) with a programmable fuse (set immediately before "launch" by radar) could be effective. You would get longer range than C-RAM or laser and artillery shells are cheap. Shahed/Gerans are not particularly fast or durable. It wouldn't take much to make it fall out of the sky: close enough is good enough.

[–] balp@feddit.nu 1 points 5 hours ago

The Russian Navy stays way, way the hell away from the Ukraine coast these days. The drone-boat bombs have them running scared. Even Sevastopol in Crimea is too risky.

The system is called Loki and sold by SAAB now, but well, the gun base can be an AA/Naval gun with origin from the 1930ish, but then some parts are changed to get a speed to follow drones, the original handcranked aiming systems.

Video from Swedish Defence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO4QMZ1n4_Q