Pantsir has also guns tho. More importantly than that it has a radar that can guide missile, which means that radar range exceeds gun range, which means that if there's info sharing system in place, single pantsir can send message to a dude in dshk technical saying "drone incoming towards your position from xx direction". But, this requires such system to exist, and it has to be fast enough, reliable enough and not to target airliners too often. Missiles are for higher end targets like jet drones or actual cruise missiles

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder what the success rate of the Pantsir system is against drones. Moscow has a ton of them installed yet Ukraine has been successful in getting past them repeatedly with a relatively few reported drones.

I have also never seen an video with their auto-cannons active. I wonder how much time it takes from them to swap from missile to the auto-cannon.

[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

i think it would be more proper to look at success rate of entire system as a whole, and also keep in mind that there might be 90% success rate and still some slip through just because how huge these waves are. next day after that there was another drone wave and no reported footage

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

That's a fair point, but given that Moscow could presumably also be targeted by these higher end weapons, one would think that if the missiles were available, that the air defense systems would be fully loaded.