[Goose]

Now that the Russians know where Ukraine has its NASAMS stationed, wouldn't the obvious move for the Russians be to attack different areas with their drones?  Does Ukraine have a counter for that anytime prior to the receipt of the next six NASAMS?

To a large extent they are already attacking "everywhere", but there are certain high value targets like the city of Kiev (electricity grid and government infrastructure) that the Russians want to hit and the Ukrainians want to defend. NASAMS is designed to do exactly that. The NASAMS has to move around a bit to avoid being targeted itself. The next 6 NASAMS will help, but that is "just" six more points that Ukraine can defend. Everywhere else is still up for grabs, and there are LOTS of strategically important places in every country. NASAMS can't defend them all (8 to be exact).

Ukraine and the "West" need a much cheaper and more easily deployed system to take out these drones. It has to work at night which pretty much rules out "simple" optical guidance. We almost had one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVAIR_Spike. The problem was the EO guidance system wouldn't work well at night. This effort was not pursued. IMO that was a mistake. You can shoot down one of these Ukrainian drones with a machine gun. The problem is you have to see it soon enough and aim well enough. A small, cheap guided missile can solve the aim well enough problem. Seeing the drone at night is the remaining problem.

[Goose]

Now that the Russians know where Ukraine has its NASAMS stationed, wouldn't the obvious move for the Russians be to attack different areas with their drones?  Does Ukraine have a counter for that anytime prior to the receipt of the next six NASAMS?

To a large extent they are already attacking "everywhere", but there are certain high value targets like the city of Kiev (electricity grid and government infrastructure) that the Russians want to hit and the Ukrainians want to defend. NASAMS is designed to do exactly that. The NASAMS has to move around a bit to avoid being targeted itself. The next 6 NASAMS will help, but that is "just" six more points that Ukraine can defend. Everywhere else is still up for grabs, and there are LOTS of strategically important places in every country. NASAMS can't defend them all (8 to be exact).

Ukraine and the "West" need a much cheaper and more easily deployed system to take out these drones. It has to work at night which pretty much rules out "simple" optical guidance. We almost had one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVAIR_Spike. The problem was the EO guidance system wouldn't work well at night. This effort was not pursued. IMO that was a mistake. You can shoot down one of these Ukrainian drones with a machine gun. The problem is you have to see it soon enough and aim well enough. A small, cheap guided missile can solve the aim well enough problem. Seeing the drone at night is the remaining problem.