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01-02-2024, 03:42 PM
Russia Deploys Radio-Jammers To Ground Ukraine’s Drones. Just One Problem: The Jammers Don’t Work
A Russian MT-LB, fitted with an RP-377 jammer, burns.VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...44586220e6
Tuesday assault was small—just three T-72 tanks, seven MT-LB armored tractors and a single BMP-2 fighting vehicle, possibly from Russian army’s 20th Motor Rifle Division. And its total destruction by Ukrainian drones in the span of three hours isn’t terribly unusual. Most Russian attacks end in drone-inflicted defeat. What worry Russian commanders is Ukrainian drones, apparently from 79th Air Assault Brigade or the 7th Ranger Battalion, were unbothered by the electronic-warfare gear, Russians usually attach to their vehicles right before an attack.
The E.W. systems broadcast radio noise that, in theory, should scramble the signals by which drone-operators control their two-pound, two-mile-range first-person-view drones, each laden with a pound of explosives. during Tuesday assault, jamming failed—and the drones swiftly demolished the Russian column. Russian forces “do not have any massive protection against enemy drones,” one Russian blogger complained in a missive translated by @wartranslated. “Everything they install has long been outdated and does not cover the enemy’s new frequencies.”
For friends of a free Ukraine, this is good news. With pro-Russian Republicans in the U.S. Congress blockading U.S. aid to Ukraine, Kyiv’s artillery batteries are starved for ammunition: they’re firing just 2,000 rounds a day, a fifth what Russian batteries can fire.
So Ukrainian troops are replacing artillery with FPV drones, which don’t require precision manufacturing and might cost just a few hundred dollars apiece. Ukraine is building, and flinging at Russian forces, tens of thousands of FPV drones every month.
A Russian MT-LB, fitted with an RP-377 jammer, burns.VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...44586220e6
Tuesday assault was small—just three T-72 tanks, seven MT-LB armored tractors and a single BMP-2 fighting vehicle, possibly from Russian army’s 20th Motor Rifle Division. And its total destruction by Ukrainian drones in the span of three hours isn’t terribly unusual. Most Russian attacks end in drone-inflicted defeat. What worry Russian commanders is Ukrainian drones, apparently from 79th Air Assault Brigade or the 7th Ranger Battalion, were unbothered by the electronic-warfare gear, Russians usually attach to their vehicles right before an attack.
The E.W. systems broadcast radio noise that, in theory, should scramble the signals by which drone-operators control their two-pound, two-mile-range first-person-view drones, each laden with a pound of explosives. during Tuesday assault, jamming failed—and the drones swiftly demolished the Russian column. Russian forces “do not have any massive protection against enemy drones,” one Russian blogger complained in a missive translated by @wartranslated. “Everything they install has long been outdated and does not cover the enemy’s new frequencies.”
For friends of a free Ukraine, this is good news. With pro-Russian Republicans in the U.S. Congress blockading U.S. aid to Ukraine, Kyiv’s artillery batteries are starved for ammunition: they’re firing just 2,000 rounds a day, a fifth what Russian batteries can fire.
So Ukrainian troops are replacing artillery with FPV drones, which don’t require precision manufacturing and might cost just a few hundred dollars apiece. Ukraine is building, and flinging at Russian forces, tens of thousands of FPV drones every month.
