MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Russian reconnaissance drones are becoming a significant problem for the Ukrainian army, as they are difficult to identify and not easy to shoot down, Ilya Yevlash, a spokesman for the Air Force Command has said.
"Indeed, drones are quite a significant problem. <...> These hard-to-detect small-sized targets, made of various stealth composite materials, are quite difficult to identify, because they are used at long distances, such as five kilometers or more. To shoot down such a small drone, which with its powerful optics can track the movements of our forces, of course - it is quite a challenge," Yevlash said on the TV channel Rada.
He also acknowledged that Ukrainian radars had problems with detecting drones flying at low altitudes. Yevlash admitted that the use of such reconnaissance drones by the Russian military could inflict heavy losses on Ukrainian troops.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said in an interview with TASS editor-in-chief Mikhail Petrov that Russian troops currently used hundreds of FPV drones on the frontline, with the Russian industry delivering thousands of UAVs per day. At the same time, according to The New York Times analysts, the Russian military performed better than Ukraine in electronic warfare.
Many in Ukraine have been speculating about the importance of drones. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Alexander Syrsky, admitted that the confrontation between attack drones and electronic warfare means was beginning to play the decisive role in combat operations. In turn, Ukrainian radio technology expert Sergey Beskrestnov said that the pace of supplies of FPV drones for the Russian army as high as it was now, very soon the Ukrainian infantry would have to literally "go underground."