I've have not been following the war (and this thread) as closely recently due to being so pissed off at our current administration's stance so apologies if this has been posted earlier. I assume the Ukrainians can pick up most of the attack waves before they reach Ukrainian air space and scramble the jets or already have F-16s flying CAPs at night expecting nightly attacks. They have added 2 capabilities, sniper pods and laser guided rockets. Sniper pods include a high definition mid-wave forward looking infrared (FLIR), dual-mode laser, HDTV, laser spot tracker, laser marker, video data link, and a digital data recorder. The pilots are vectored to the drones via ground controllers, AWACS ( have the Swedes delivered the AWACS yet?) and/or using their own radars, then acquire the drone visually with the sniper pod's FLIR and/or HD camera, and lastly, laser designate the drone. The second part of the equation is the rocket. They are decades old 2.75 inch (70mm) hydra rocket motors with with a new laser guidance system (top picture) and proximity fuse (bottom picture left is proximity fuse, right is standard impact fuse). We have been using them this in the middle east: The obvious advantages, as mentioned by the graphic, are they are very cheap compared to traditional air-to-air missiles, large existing stock of 2.75" rocket motors, and ability to carry a large amount (US F-16 carrying 14 on one station). They can be added to any plane or helicopter that can integrate a sniper pod and mount rocket pods.