According to the developer, the drone turned out to be vulnerable to both the anti-drone weapon and the fixed jamming complex.
Ukrainian engineer Mikhail Dronov tested a homemade Skynetua drone under the influence of electronic warfare (EW). He reported his progress on his Facebook page.
According to Mikhail Dronov, on Sunday, April 2, he went to Kharkiv with his drone, where he assembled the Skynetua team. Together, they tested the drone’s capabilities using various electronic warfare tools.
One of them was the electronic warfare complex, which Mikhail Dronov did not disclose, but whose name implied that it was “somewhere in Western Ukraine”. Probably, the developer had in mind the Ukrainian complex “Bukovel AD”, produced by Proximus. Also, the engineer said that they tried to suppress Skynetua with an anti-drone weapon during the tests. Neither tool was able to “silence” control signals and real-time video transmission.
“We can safely say that my complex can work under the influence of electronic warfare, as expected, so all that remains is to bring it into an industrial design and put it into service,” said Mikhail Dronov.
In January, Mikhail Dronov announced that he had assembled his own assault drone for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to calculations, the drone will be able to fly at a distance of up to 50 km and drop up to 3 kg of ammunition on the heads of the invaders.
On March 19, Mikhail Dronov spoke about the successful flight tests of the Skynetua drone. According to him, the take-off weight of the device is 9 kg, and the planned carrying capacity is 3 kg. In addition, the engineer took off the drone with his hands.
They also wrote about how the Ukrainian electronic warfare complex “Bukovel” works. It is known that it can detect Russian unmanned aerial vehicles at a distance of up to 100 km and suppress them at 15-20 km.
Source: Focus
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