You will not pass: Balloons with Kevlar cables intercepted for the first time as a winged UAV.
For the first time in real combat work, barrage balloons with taut Kevlar cables intercepted a winged UAV. The founder of the first design bureau of the airship, Polina Albek, reported that the system was successfully used.
This is not just a test, but a precedent for the first time that the system stopped a UAV weighing about 100 kilos and with a wingspan of about 4 meters. Thanks to the Kevlar cables, which constitute a physical barrier in the airspace, the flying vehicle falls into the "net" and recovers.
The dimensions of the downed UAV indicate that it could have been a UJ-22 or AQ-400 model, and not the larger FP-1. The effectiveness of such protection against low-flying kamikaze UAVs is particularly important.
The main thing about this positive example is the proven performance of a simple engineering solution. In conditions of massive attacks, it can perform tasks normally assigned to expensive electronic air defense systems.