“Can effectively suppress drones”: the Western press praised the installation of the “Volnorez” jammer on Russian tanks

The Russian defense industry demonstrated a portable jammer designed for installation on mobile equipment in order to combat enemy drones.

Responding to the challenge from UAVs, Russia introduced its latest countermeasure - the Volnorez electronic jammer. This advanced system was first shown installed on tank T-80BVM, attracting the attention of military analysts around the world

- says the publication World Defense News.

As indicated, the “Breakwater” can be easily mounted (using magnets) on a tank turret to counter UAV attacks, operating 360 degrees in a wide frequency range from 900 to 3000 MHz.

This wide spectrum ensures that the new product can effectively jam a variety of drones operating in this range. With the ability to jam UAV signals over a kilometer away, the Breakwater is a powerful deterrent against airborne threats.

- is assessed in the Western press.

Once exposed to interference, most UAVs either veer off course, crashing into the ground, or remain motionless, treading water until they regain signal or exhaust their energy reserves.

As explained, it is believed that for the smooth operation of the Breakwater, an auxiliary power unit is necessary. However, early tests of the system were carried out on the T-72B3 tank, which did not have it.

Comments

[Leshak]

...for the smooth operation of the Breakwater, an auxiliary power unit is required. However, early tests of the system were carried out on the T-72B3 tank, which did not have APU .

An ambiguous abbreviation. It would be better to write it in words again.

[Svetlana]

This seems like a blunder. Perhaps some kind of additional electric generator is needed if the devices do not consume energy like a child, and even then it is unlikely.

[Nikolay Dyaglev]

APU-auxiliary power unit

[Anchonsha]

Sofa sitter, and you need them to write for you everything in detail about “Breakwater”, so that you can blab everything out later. In addition, all this is in the media ---- "......says World Defense News.

[Al manah]

But nothing that we learn about this device from foreign MASS MEDIA?

[frei67]

It's been on TV for a week now. so you're wrong

[dilukhin]

For what purpose are you interested? Do you want new products to become known as early and widely as possible?

[skeptic]

Quote: Leshak

APU

Auxiliary, power unit.

[Argon]

Couldn't radio emission be a beacon for UAVs? When equipped with the necessary equipment, it is a beacon.

[Vitaly161]

for RER equipment, it will be easier to find tanks with Breakwaters, because any radiation in the radio range is scorched, but for a drone, the control channels are clogged, this is the end, it won’t fly, and tinkering with detection equipment on already overloaded FPVs smacks of nonsense

[chingachguc]

It's even easier to find with a video camera. Believe me

[A2AD]

It's even easier to find with a video camera. Believe me

Will you sit next to the video camera yourself? Yeah, right on top of a drone.

[Sobol]

Quote: Vitaliy161

for RER equipment, it will be easier to find tanks with Breakwaters, because any radiation in the radio range is scorched, but for a drone, the control channels are clogged, this is the end, it won’t fly, and tinkering with detection equipment on already overloaded FPVs smacks of nonsense

Then, in general, what is the fun of electronic warfare as a means? At the moment, many electronic warfare stations are crushing drones, communications, etc., and they feel fine. The guys show how they crush enemy birds with “guns”. Do they see them right away? I'm not a military man, just curious.

[suhorukofal]

What you say is correct, they caught the birds with guns, they saw us without it. The enemy has too many birds, the same notorious “Baba Yaga”, all these thoughts about detection are bullshit, the main thing is to protect the crew

[Vitaly161]

they plant birds, they work, only when working with anti-drone guns in the radio range do they glow like a Christmas tree, so for radio electronic reconnaissance (RER) units, detecting where such devices are turned on is not a problem, another question is their availability and the composition of weapons on the ribbon and with us and the enemy doesn’t have a lot of information on these units, or even 0, but they work 100%

[Svetlana]

Maybe. But not for these drones, but for those that have not yet been invented. Well, or they came up with it purely theoretically.

[antiaircrafter]

Quote: Argon

Couldn't radio emission be a beacon for UAVs?

For a UAV it cannot, because it suppresses control signals.
Now, if you make up a rakuta with a guidance head like an anti-radar missile, then it’s quite possible.

[kit88]

Is it a matter of control channels?

operating 360 degrees over a wide frequency range from 900 to 3000 MHz.

From open sources it is clear that the UAV control channels have frequencies from VHF (433 MHz.....), 4G (725 MHz....), GSM 900 (890 MHz....) ... to Wi-Fi (4,5-6,1 GHz).
This is clearly beyond Breakwater's capabilities.
Maybe navigation channels? Everything is clear there. Fits in generously.

[solar]

FPV drones act against tanks; for them, navigation channels are secondary, for them the main thing is control channels. Navigation is needed when attacking stationary targets.

[chingachguc]

It is said that it crushes signals from 800 to 3000 MHz.

[cash]

To be honest, I doubt that drones operate at frequencies of 4.5-6.1, the range is very short, mostly it’s still 2.4 +

[Yorgven]

So it already exists, it’s called HARM. And it stands like a tank.

[solar]

Maybe. It’s just that now they often use drones based on commercial components, but they don’t have such a function in their firmware. But it’s a matter of time before drones have such functions.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Argon

Couldn't radio emission be a beacon for UAVs?

For UAVs - no. But for PRR - that’s it. And Excalibur, if modified with an RTR sensor, will hit you hard!

[Vadim S]

This war will give rise to many more things, and we will not see such things

[VladimirNET]

It would be cool, like in fantasy films:
take all the energy from the drones, and then they fall...

[Vitaly161]

Well, this is one of the ways to counteract, blow up/disable the power system, or battery or control chips, and there are such guns too

[Oleg Apushkin]

A device for protection may be good, but what about the frequencies, because the enemy can change them. It is not clear to the Ukrainian Armed Forces where to place it; it is not a small object.

[certero]

Most drones operate on 5 MHz frequency

[A2AD]

Let's not forget physics. Higher frequency - shorter range. From 100 MHz there is only a direct visibility of 40-70 km. Well, in general, who said that the system produces “noise” over the entire frequency range? Estimating the frequency of an external signal, issuing a block at the appropriate frequency. At a minimum, feedback, and for FPV drones this is a video, block it like 2 fingers. There are not many signals on the battlefield in this range, direction, and power level.

[Grigory T]

There are powerful batteries, they worked out, took them off and left...

[certero]

Quote from A2AD

At a minimum, feedback, and for FPV drones this is a video, block it like 2 fingers. Not

Well, we remember about the mighty Russian electronic warfare which will completely defeat the enemy. The practice of the criterion of truth and drones have become so widespread precisely because neither we nor the enemy can suppress anything.

[karabas-barabas]

Quote: certero

Neither we nor the enemy can suppress a damn thing.

You are wrong. Electronic warfare on both sides put pressure well and is still putting pressure on drones, especially reconnaissance UAVs. This is noticeable in the video in Cart, where they film strikes on positions from as far away as possible, bringing the picture as close as possible. Or by kamikaze drones, which fly up to positions, or targets begin to lose the picture. Another thing is that electronic warfare components are a priority target for everything that can be obtained.

[AlexWar]

The next step will be to put metal cans on the tank turret to shoot down satellites in space.

[Mikhail Maslov]

I had a great look at the tests of jammers from the 911 group, and I’ll tell you that developments have come very far. There are already not only jammers, but they also determine the control location of the UAV with high accuracy. And most importantly, everything is portable.

[pettabyte]

Previously there was a Curtain (eyes), now a Breakwater (horns).
Bringing back the Curtain, and also the “eyebrows,” would be gorgeous.