This was stated by Anatolii Khrapchynskyi, Deputy Director General of a company producing electronic warfare systems, during a broadcast on Espreso."Today, the enemy’s main tactics involve deploying large numbers of aerial threats in complex combinations. This overwhelms our detection systems and complicates interception. A jet-powered Shahed is actually not a difficult target to intercept — it leaves a thermal trail and can be tracked by man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) with infrared guidance, which Ukraine’s Armed Forces have," Khrapchynskyi explained.“For civilians, it’s important to understand: this is a high-speed drone, so during air raids, they should be in shelters. As for countermeasures, mobile fire teams with Browning M2 machine guns, for instance, are ineffective against such drones. The same applies to other similar weapons,” he noted.“However, any effective air defense system is built on a layered approach with diverse interception tools. This means analyzing the target, understanding its characteristics, mapping its trajectory, and then determining how and with what to shoot it down.”Khrapchynskyi emphasized the urgent need to upgrade Ukraine’s drone detection capabilities.“Our Air Force is doing everything it can with the legacy Soviet weapons, the systems left after 30 years of corruption, and the new tools provided by our partners,” he said. “We’re dealing with cutting-edge, low-visibility weapons — some fast, some slow — and that’s why the approaches to detecting them must vary.”