• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    They are too slow to hit airborne fixed wing aircraft, and even if they were fast enough, they'd likely need onboard IR / Radar tracking and guidance systems to hit something moving fast.

    At which point you would not have a drone any more, it would just be an AA missile.

    Drones can hit parked aircraft though.

    And there is at least now one usage of a Ukranian drone that sufficiently damaged a low flying, loitering, Russian Mi 28 such that it either crashed or was forced to do an emergency landing.

    https://theaviationist.com/2024/08/08/fpv-drone-vs-mi-28/