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Trade-offs in air defence system design
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![Trade-offs in air defence system design A Shahed 136 OWA UAV on display. Iran’s decision to add such threats into the mix for its April 2024 attacks proved less effective than it might have hoped. This was partially due to their launch increasing the warning time, but also because the air defence means to deal with Shahed tend to be much simpler than those required to deal with ballistic missiles, meaning there was no real synergy between the two to overwhelming a particular class of defensive system. [FARS Media Corporation/Behrouz Ahmadi, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0)]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Shahed_FARS-Media-CorporationBehrouz-Ahmadi-via-Wikimedia-Commons-CC-BY-4-324x160.jpg)
