Modern terrorist and asymmetric threats
The article deals with modern terrorist and asymmetric threats, such as drones with minibombs, mortar and rocket attacks, and terrorist attacks of speedboats stuffed with explosives. Examples are presented, that illustrating low effectiveness of conventional high-explosive fragmentation ammunition of domestic and foreign artillery systems in defeating the attack of unmanned aerial vehicles and maneuvering small-sized boats. The cost of defeating multiple simultaneous attacks by guided missiles is very high. It is concluded that it is necessary to develop more effective countermeasures.