The attacks on Slemani continue

Additional impacts on the PUK 70th brigade
Slemani International AirPort (Jalal Talabani Airport)

The series of drone strikes against the city of Slemani in the autonomous region of Kurdistan illustrate the problem we are facing:

We do not have the means to effectively defend ourselves against the threat of fast moving and mobile suicide-drones.
The footage shows the interception of drones by gun and machine gun fire - essentially covering the direction from which the drones are coming from with bullets in hopes of landing a hit on an incoming drone.

This is obviously not an effective doctrine and barely offers any chance of success.
In this case here, the well equipped base of the 70s Peshmerga of the PUK was able to achieve limited success solely because of the base being well equipped enough to be able to handle extended periods of fire; also because every available gun was able to be used for that role due to the presence of large numbers of Peshmerga.
This strategy absolutely offers no potential success in any scenario where a well manned and equipped base does not exist and where drones do not approach from the right direction.

But it goes deeper than that - we did not even develop a military doctrine to combat drones.
It’s an institutional problem - by all means, it is not an easy task but it is definitely feasible.

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