ARCHITECTURE OF THE AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM OF TROOPS AND OBJECTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD IN THE CONTEXT OF COUNTERING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

The article proposes and substantiates the architecture of a battlefield air defense system in the context of a new airborne threat - kamikaze strike drones and drones with drops, in particular FPV drones. The author defines the concept of “battlefield” as the space from the line of combat to the depth of the combat formations of tactical level military formations - up to 70 km, where battles are directly fought and kamikaze drones are massively used. The main types of battlefield attack drones used by the enemy in the war against Ukraine are identified, their combat capabilities and Russia's drone production capabilities are analyzed. Possible elements of the air defense system, which, when interacting, will effectively counteract kamikaze strike drones and drones with dumps, are presented, namely Air Defense units of the Land Forces, forces and means of zonal and object-based air defense systems on the territory of combat operations; means of defeating and suppressing drones of certain types of weapons, primarily armored ones, which are a priority for fire damage by drones; forces and means of operational camouflage, which can complicate the conditions for the use of enemy drones with smoke, ionizing aerosols, and false targets. The set of system elements is defined as its structural component, the architecture of the battlefield air defense system. The peculiarities of kamikaze drones and drones with dumps as a new threat to troops and objects on the battlefield gave rise to the definition of the basic principles of the system's functioning, namely: the principle of system compliance with the combat capabilities of air attack means and the scale of their use, which is projected; the principle of gradual acquisition of the system's ability to effectively defeat the target, which is realized by its multi-level architecture - the level of detection and recognition of the target, the level of attack prevention, the level of fire damage to the target; the principle of adequate The set of principles of use is defined as a functional component of air defense systems for troops and battlefield objects.