Analysis of the experience of the combat use of unmanned aerial vehicles against anti-aircraft missile systems in the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Abstract

An analysis of the latest military conflicts and local wars in Ukraine, Syria, Libya and other regions of the planet clearly demonstrates that practically in each of them there is a new format of warfare, traditional ideas about the forms and methods of armed struggle on the battlefield are being destroyed, and significant adjustments are being made. in the strategy and tactics of achieving victorious results for each side. One of them was the so-called "Karabakh conflict" between Armenia and Azerbaijan over control over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The events of September-November 2020 in the scientific community have been called the “drone war”. It was thanks to modern drones that Azerbaijan gained air superiority and used it to achieve a strategic advantage in the war. Modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are able not only to effectively identify the enemy day and night, direct their own firepower at him, but also independently destroy him at a considerable distance from the battlefield.The article discusses the use of a massive UAV raid against anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) of air defense (air defense) in a military conflict on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Such use of UAVs for air defense air defense systems led to the rapid depletion of their combat resource and, as a consequence, the further inability of these complexes to solve tasks according to their intended purpose. An analysis of the results of the combat use of air defense systems against modern UAVs showed that the detection range of the air defense missile system by the UAV equipment has become relatively the same, and sometimes even exceeds it. In the course of the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a new tactic for the use of UAVs was developed, which makes it possible to ensure the guaranteed defeat of the air defense missile system and thereby carry out the functional suppression of the air defense system and ensure the gains of air superiority. For a scientifically substantiated confirmation of the possibility of successful destruction of an anti-aircraft missile-gun complex (AMC) by a UAV group, analytical and simulation modeling was carried out and appropriate conclusions were drawn to resolve the military conflict in Donbass.