Ukraine uses electronic warfare against enemy drones

 Yahoo News:

Electronic warfare (EW) is growing ever more important for Ukraine’s military. In an article for The Economist, Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi described EW as the key to victory in the war, potentially allowing Ukraine to break the stalemate on the battlefield.

The Ukrainian Air Force recently announced that EW systems are now used to disrupt the navigation and targeting of Russian kamikaze drones, driving them kilometers away from their intended targets.

NV asked Anatolii Khrapchynskyi, deputy CEO of a Ukrainian company that manufactures EW systems (the company’s name is classified for security reasons) about how electronic countermeasures will affect the course of the war, going forward.

Khrapchynskyi: In terms of miltech [military technology], there’s a need for tactical-level EW systems to counter FPV [first-person view] drones, attack UAVs, and reconnaissance drones. We’re engaged in the development of EW systems against these drones. Currently, we have serial production of anti-drone guns, in particular trench-level variants of directed action [jamming devices] and dome defenses, which are mounted directly on military vehicles. This weapon, so to speak, is the last line of defense, the one that protects troops in the trenches.

We also have ongoing development and prototypes of systems with greater power and range. For example, such systems can counter Russian Orlan recon UAVs at a range of up to 20 kilometers.
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As drone warfare becomes more prevalent electronic warfare steps in to deal with it.  This is becoming prevalent in the war between Russia and Ukraine and it is likely the US is working on similar weapon systems. 

See also:

Pro-Kremlin supporters are fuming after footage appears to show Ukrainian drones decimating an entire Russian armored column

And:

 Putin’s secret electronic weapon playing havoc with airliners’ GPS

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