According to the information contained in the abstract of the invention, this is a miniature aircraft equipped with a control unit, a multi-barrel weapon station and four telescopic rails that face horizontally to the sides and are interconnected by a network. The latter “sprays” the ammunition into small fragments flying in different directions.
Military scientists explain the feasibility of the invention by the growing threat of attacks by swarms of drones on important military and civilian infrastructure.
Swarm “intelligence” provides for the coordinated actions of a large number of “agent” drones that locally interact with each other and with the environment. Despite the simplicity of such a technique, collectively these drones exhibit “exceptionally complex” behavior, acting as a single large organism.
Due to its stealth, a swarm can have a great influence on the course of hostilities, conducting reconnaissance and delivering air strikes against combat vehicles, command posts, clusters of equipment and people, even in the face of opposition from air defense systems and electronic warfare.
According to the experts of the Military University, the existing means of counteracting swarms of drones (air defense, electronic warfare, barrage systems, fighter and army aviation, small arms) are not able to adequately cope with this task, besides, their operation requires significant funds.
The system described in the document will be able to cover protected objects with a fragmentation field. In a combat position, this drone hangs in the air above an object with a net open on the rails. Network sensors read the movement of the attacking “swarm” and send a signal to the electric capsules of the charges of the multi-barrel combat module. After that, all of its barrels fire at the same time, and the fragmentation field created in this way destroys enemy drones.