Designer unveils China’s innovative anti-drone barrage weapon system
China has unveiled a type of innovative barrage weapon system, the first of its kind in the world, with its chief designer introducing in a recent magazine interview that the weapon can effectively counter drone swarms.
The air defense system, named the anti-drone swarm and anti-missile barrage weapon system in full, is unveiled in the April edition of the Modern Weaponry magazine.
Yu Bin, the chief designer of the system, said in an interview with the magazine that the "barrage" the weapon shoots is a wall of projectiles that can cover incoming positions of all targets, achieving effective interception with the concept of "plane to point."
Conventional air defense guns use the concept of "point to point" interception, but when multiple air defense guns fire together, they can raise fire density and probability of interception, Yu said, noting that his new system is developed with a similar concept.