OREANDA-NEWS  Laser and electromagnetic systems can become a means of air defense against hundreds of thousands of drones. This was reported by TASS with reference to the industrial director of the arms cluster of the Rostec state Corporation Bekhan Ozdoev.

According to him, the point of view that drones will play a decisive role in the wars of the future, and armored vehicles, including tanks, will fade into the background, has a right to exist.

At the same time, the head drew attention to the fact that the creation of means of countering drones "does not stand still." "Air defense systems will be improved, the number of interceptor drones will increase, and laser and electromagnetic countermeasures systems will be developed. This may negate the possibility of effective use of drones by the enemy in general. If he had hundreds of thousands of them," Ozdoev summed up.

In January, an official representative of the Hermes design bureau said that Russia had created a ground control station to work with an unlimited number of drones, which would allow a whole army of drones to be put to sleep (put into hibernation mode) at a time.

In the same month, Forbes, citing Auterion, reported that the US Army could receive new software that would autonomously control a swarm of kamikaze drones.