Specialists from the Russian military-industrial complex have developed a new mobile anti-UAV defense system

One of the main threats to our military in the zone of a special military operation, undoubtedly, comes from various and numerous Drones enemy. Responding to urgent requests from the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian defense engineers are constantly working on creating means of protection against UAVs.

Another novelty of this kind was presented by specialists from the Ruselectronics holding, which is part of the largest corporation of the Russian military-industrial complex, Rostec Group. The press service of the state-owned defense enterprise presented on its website a new mobile complex for protecting military vehicles and official vehicles from attacks drones called "Leshy". The new anti-drone equipment has been successfully tested and is already being supplied to military personnel in the Northern Military District zone.

The electronic warfare device is installed on the roof of the vehicle and interferes with enemy UAVs, thereby forming a kind of protective dome over the vehicle. The range of the new product is decent - at least 250 meters. At this distance, the equipment suppresses control channels of unmanned aerial vehicles, including FPV drones. The equipment can be used both stationary and in motion.

Our equipment differs from existing analogues in its high reliability and low cost. The production of products is completely localized at the facilities of the Polyus Central Design Bureau. We receive positive feedback from our customers about the operation of the complex. We are currently working to expand the frequency range

— said Anatoly Kuznetsov, General Director of the Polyus Central Design Bureau.

Rostec Group of Companies especially noted that the new Leshy anti-drone complex can be used not only by the military, but to protect civilian objects. This is especially relevant in connection with the recent increase in terrorist attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine using drones deep into Russian territory. Judging by the published photo, the new development of the Russian defense industry is compact and, when assembled, fits into a small suitcase. And deployment and installation of equipment probably doesn’t take much time.

In addition to this new product, the Polyus Central Design Bureau has also developed, produces and supplies customers with the Groza anti-drone system. The drone suppression range of this equipment reaches three hundred meters.

Comments

[dauria]

The next thing will be the appearance on drones of an autonomous attack mode based on a memorized picture from a distance of 500 meters when communication is lost. Chinese industry is getting ready to produce such a gadget for household quads. .

[Ady66]

This will only work on stationary targets

[dauria]

What's the difference? The principle is simple - as it approaches, the image standard is updated. And this has been the case since ancient times with the X-29T. The rocket also "sways and twitches", but it holds the image. I even got the "smart name" stuck in my head - Kalman-Bucy filtering.

[Ady66]

Then this drone needs to be equipped with quite serious computing power, which makes it more complex and expensive, and also adds weight and increases energy consumption. A drone is not a rocket; its advantage is its simplicity and low cost.

[dauria]

Yes, look at your optical mouse - there is the same principle of tracking the surface of the mouse pad. High speed camera and processor. By the way, in ancient rockets black and white 14x14 pixels were quite enough.

[NIKN]

Quote: Ady66

Then this drone needs to be equipped with quite serious computing power, which makes it more complex and expensive, and also adds weight and increases energy consumption. A drone is not a rocket; its advantage is its simplicity and low cost.

Everything has already been decided and is cheap https://topwar.ru/245409-vsu-mozhet-poluchit-unikalnuju-sistemu-navedenija-dlja-bespilotnikov-kotoraja-budet-spravljatsja-s-rjeb.html

[iljael]

Well, large-caliber carbines are coming first in anti-drone protection, and in the future, lasers of about 5 kilowatts for burning optics.

[barik92090]

Please refrain from swearing!

[Dutchman Michel]

A drone is not a rocket, its advantage is its simplicity and cheapness

It is this simplicity that will sooner or later destroy him

[Nikolaevich I]

Quote: Ady66

This will only work on stationary targets

Not only that! For modern technologies there is no problem using a seeker for moving targets!

[Hitriy Zhuk]

In what sense?
There are already quadrics that can fly after you and take pictures.
And if he doesn’t take a photo while approaching, but just booms, that’s it.
Almost ready.

[Starover_Z]

The range of the new product is decent - at least 250 meters.

The range against attacking drones is good, but what will those sitting under its protection do if a drone bomber starts dropping its “toys” from half a kilometer? Presumably onto more serious equipment? Air defense complex, MLRS installations, artillery mounts?

[Ady66]

From such a height it is even difficult to hit an elephant; the drone is not a bomber with an aiming system; it drops it by eye.

[Hitriy Zhuk]

Quote: Ady66

after all, it’s not a bomber with an aiming system, it drops by eye.

You might think that an aiming momplex is too difficult to make.
Well, how BAM does it turn out that he is there?

[UA3QHP]

if a drone bomber starts dropping its “toys” from half a kilometer away? Presumably onto more serious equipment?

1. Air defense systems.
2. More powerful electronic warfare with a range of 1 km or more.
3. The smoke screen producers should do a good job.

[Alien From]

Either they spend decades tugging at an ox, or they make one in 5 minutes and it’s already in the army...

[Dedok]

That's for decades the ox is being teased

are mastering the budget

[gridasov]

All information for amateurs. Using a modern element base, it is impossible to obtain sufficiently effective parameters for influencing autonomous drone control systems. The more powerful the source, the higher the parameters of parasitic electromagnetic effects. Without fundamental decisions in theory and practice there will be no results.

[Kostadinov]

Quote: dauria

The next thing will be the appearance on drones of an autonomous attack mode based on a memorized picture from a distance of 500 meters when communication is lost. Chinese industry is getting ready to produce such a gadget for household quads. .

This is called homing and there have been countermeasures for a long time. Even better is the radiation homing of the defense complex, but there is counteraction here too. In addition, homing makes the drone more expensive.

[Egeny]

63 civilians in the Belgorod region and hundreds of people wounded by UAV IEDs are happy about this news.
https://bel.ru/news/2023-10-12/63-mirnyh-belgorodtsa-pogibli-s-nachala-svo-kto-oni-i-chto-sluchilos-3067581

[Dedok]

This is what the Military Chronicle writes:

RER and electronic warfare. Our expert specialist has created an electronic warfare system that jams FPV drones at standard and non-standard frequencies. Everything was checked in the most meticulous way - it works. The supply of electronic warfare equipment included the potential for upgrading systems and scaling the production of electronic warfare in front-line conditions.
Briefly: if the enemy starts flying on 550 MHz receivers, in 10 days ours will assemble the same electronic warfare from scratch, or modify the old one. NYou need to understand that no one will climb into standard electronic warfare systems from the Ministry of Defense with a screwdriver. We won’t tell you the performance characteristics - the enemy is reading.

[Victor Alien]

Do I understand correctly that there is no jammer that jams all frequencies at once?!

[Dedok]

Do I understand correctly that there is no jammer that jams all frequencies at once?!

Yes

[iljael]

This doesn't happen! Otherwise, no one would talk about frequency ranges for jammers. True, there is one method of wide-frequency jamming, but it is of divine level - lightning.

[Dedok]

True, there is one method of wide-frequency jamming, but it is of a divine level - lightning.

Electromagnetic pulse

[iljael]

yes, but again it all depends on the selection of frequency, and if you use the principle of burning out electronics using microwaves, then the energy consumption weighs a lot in kilograms, and blanks (artu) will quickly be pointed at them, and then the EMI will be useless.

[gridasov]

Exactly ! But it must be ball lightning. Therefore, you need to understand how to transform a hydrogasdynamic flow into a plasma formation - first of all, a stable one. But I think this is difficult to implement in Russia.

[iljael]

Well, it seems to me that this is still an insoluble problem for the whole world.

[NakedMan]

Quote: Dedok

Briefly: if the enemy starts flying on 550 MHz receivers, in 10 days ours will assemble the same electronic warfare from scratch, or modify the old one.

If the frequency could be changed immediately, it would make sense. And so the enemy, if desired, will always be ten days ahead.

[wladimirjankov]

If the frequency could be changed immediately,

This is exactly the kind of mobile EW that we have needed for a long time. This device should determine the frequency at which the UAV operates and automatically adjust the jamming frequency in a wide range. Then the UAV will be reliably blocked, even if it has a provision for switching to other backup frequencies when the main one is jammed. China and the West have had such mobile and stationary EW devices for a long time. Why we still don’t have them is unclear. Most likely, we don’t have our own element base for this.

[Hitriy Zhuk]

Isn’t it easier to have a thermal imager, a rangefinder and a simple calculation on Atmega?
Next, 2-3 servos, and attach the automatic/saiga.
It is clear that Yaga may not be shot down, but a kamikazu is quite possible.
The only thing is that he will knock down his bird, and you have to think so that he doesn’t slash at people (without this, there’s a drop-dead mess there).

[Andy_nsk]

a simple calculation on Atmega?

Atmega lost its relevance many years ago. They use STM32, the possibilities are much wider, the price is reasonable.
In general, the idea is sound: to prevent the shooter from shooting down its birds, you need to install friend-or-foe answering machines. The system is no more complicated than a car alarm (the most secure alarms have long used answering machines with encryption).

[Kusja]

This is, of course, good, but is it really impossible to simply stretch a football or fishing net over small transformer substations? Every day they show how these stations are clapping. If they attack even from the second quad, it is already a plus.

[Svetlana]

From half a kilometer away, a small drone on the ground cannot really see anything. And besides, a freely falling “cola bottle” will deflect a bunch of meters.

[Egeny]

... I don’t mind the transformer, it’s not mine, I feel sorry for my money for the network.

[APASUS]

The problem is not that our industry will not be able to solve the UAV problem. The problem is that will our Ministry of Defense buy such systems with a circulation of 10-000 units?
General Ivanov perfectly showed how the Ministry of Defense’s money disappears. And you can’t fight a war with volunteers!

[Disant]

APASUS(Pavo) The problem is not that our industry will not be able to solve the UAV problem. The problem is that will our Ministry of Defense buy such systems in a run of 10-000 units?

one jammer covers about 50 units of the range out of several thousand. what to do with these thousands of jammers when all enemy drones are jammed on the first day (the jammers will work), and after ten days enemy drones will go on other frequencies? and after another 10 days they will go on two or three channels (frequencies) simultaneously, then they will mix other pairs of frequencies, then they will go rarely and more often some frequency hopping (frequency hopping)?

[rocket757]

Jammer... that's not enough. Effective protection must be comprehensive.

[Piramidon]

So many anti-copter devices have already been announced, but so far the 12-gauge gun bike has been recognized as the most effective tool.

[gridasov]

The methods are standard and based on classics in science. Hence the dead end.

[Antiglobalist]

Les volontaires doivent arrêter d'acheter des drones des radios etc, çà sert plus à rien. Ils doivent financer des concepteurs privés d'armes de défense anti-drone.

[Dutchman Michel]

Well, in this case, Rostec doesn’t eat its bread in vain

[Romanenko]

Judging by the published photo, the new development of the Russian defense industry is compact and, when assembled, fits into a small suitcase. And deployment and installation of equipment probably doesn’t take much time.

It is also very important that it works and reaches the troops and protected facilities in the required quantities.

[cpls22]

We are currently working to expand the frequency range

In addition to expanding the range, you need an automatic transition to the frequency that is currently active on the air. This way it will be possible not to disperse power over the entire range.

[Bumbarashov]

Work in progress!!!! In peaceful times this would hardly have been invented..

[bug120560]

In the fight against UAVs, relying solely on electronic warfare systems is a losing proposition. They can and will be effective only when used in conjunction with detection and destruction systems, that is, as a single and mobile complex. And such a complex was needed yesterday (the SVO is an example). But here's what's most surprising - separate developments of electronic warfare systems and various remotely controlled weapon modules have existed for quite some time, but mass production with delivery to the troops does not exist and, apparently, is not even expected. What is this - a lack of understanding of the need or a complete disregard for the lives of soldiers on the front lines? Or maybe both together, because our priority is global trade.