Russian "Strizh-3" anti-drone system is destroyed by an electronic warfare resistant FPV drone.
Russian "Strizh-3" anti-drone system is destroyed by an electronic warfare resistant FPV drone.
Source: https://t.me/ssternenko/19879
I would love to understand how it's electronic warfare resistant. I wonder if it's just manually flown rather than GPS.
Obviously though I don't expect anyone that knows to answer. We can wait till it's in the history books.
you can still jam common control channels in this case, like with any other FPV drones
you can't jam everything, because it would consume enormous power and system would be massively complex. my bet is that they have used some band that was not commonly used, and so, not jammed yet. maybe it's a band that is normally used by some obsolete protocol or service, that got commandeered for use by military
all it takes is making FPV drone communication modules from scratch, it's custom job but also known technology. maybe even some components were already commercially available
there are much niftier techniques, but this is probably the simplest one and i don't think anything more advanced is needed in case of disposable FPV drone
Ah, okay, so it's about making sure the signal can still get through. That's not an easy problem to solve because the video and the control signals run on different frequencies and you need both of them to work.
I have more speculation about how they might've done it but I'll fight my tendency to infodump just this once.
I'm pretty sure "heavily jammed" means most radio frequencies will be jammed.
But the drone can enter autonomous mode when it happens and direct itself with lidar, gyroscopes and cameras I imagine.
You can also direct it with the jamming signal itself if that's what you're looking for.
You can't use either the GPS or the remote controle when it's jammed.
I would imagine there is an autonomous mode working lidar, gyroscopes, and maybe cameras. Like actual missiles as far as I understand.
You would remote controle the drone, and when it lose controle, it enters autonomous mode.
I'm no military expert so take this with a grain of salt, but that's how I would imagine it.
I'm no expert but this looked human-controlled in how it went for a pass, missed, and came back for the kill. FPVs are usually lightweight so I doubt they can carry the hardware for autonomy. My guess is they are using bands that aren't jammed.
Funny to see all these anti-drone and anti-air systems being taken out by.... drones!
The fact the drone exploded and we got video right up to the end suggests it's getting a signal out, otherwise there'd be nothing left to recover the video from.
Nice soundtrack. Ironically it was a song inspired by Glasnost, when the Soviet Union finally seemed to open up to the west and become more transparent and democratic ("Wind of Change").
LOL, you had one job!
That'll be down to the Russian response time of "whenever they can be bothered".
It is all very well detecting the drone, but if you then proceed not to do anything about it, it's not a particularly useful system.