Shown is footage of the Lancet drone hitting the Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
Russian drums Drones "Lancet" continues to cause nightmares for the enemy, destroying, among other things, air defense systems and electronic warfare stations, which seem to be designed to intercept drones, but not in the case of this loitering munition.
This time, the Lancet hit a rather rare target - the Bukovel-AD electronic warfare system. Moreover, the enemy’s electronic warfare station literally aimed the strike drone at itself. The details of the attack were revealed by the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, on his telegram channel, posting footage of the attack.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces' electronic warfare complex was hiding behind the trees on the right bank of the Dnieper. However, the disguise did not help him. During a free search, the Zala reconnaissance drone, by the way, produced by the same company of the same name that produces the Lancets, discovered an object emitting strong radio waves.
After carrying out calculations and collecting additional information, it became clear that it was the Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station hiding in the forest. The coordinates of the complex were already transferred to the operator of the strike drone, who accurately hit the APU installation. The arrival of the Lancet was recorded by the video camera of a reconnaissance UAV. Judging by the footage, the installation itself received critical damage and lost its main component - the antenna. Although at least one member of her crew seemed to survive. Perhaps he simply was not inside the complex.
The electronic warfare complex “Bukovel-AD” (Bukovel-AD) was developed by the Belgian company Proximus in 2015; these systems began to enter service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2016, and were used, among other things, in the Donbass. The developer states that the electronic warfare station, which has since gone through seven stages of modification, is allegedly capable of countering Russian Orlan-10 reconnaissance UAVs at a distance of up to one hundred kilometers. The effective radio jamming range of UAVs is up to twenty kilometers. The complex also has a passive detection and direction finding system for drones.
It is quite rhetorical to ask how, with such performance characteristics, Bukovel-AD did not even detect the Zala reconnaissance drone, and even became an easy target for the Lancet. Apparently, the Belgians are lying, especially considering that the complex is supposedly capable of detecting and blocking UAV control and navigation signals based not only on GPS, Galileo, Beidou, but even on the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system. Moreover, the reconnaissance drone was waiting for its comrade for some time, and judging by the radiation, the electronic warfare station was in an active state.
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