The Southern Military District (YuVO) will be one of the first in Russia to receive the Palantin electronic warfare (EW) station designed to suppress control channels for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in particular, NATO countries, as well as cellular and radio communications, Izvestia reports. , citing sources in the Ministry of Defense.
According to military expert Vladislav Shurygin, the Palantin complex was created primarily “to counter NATO's latest military communications systems.” This means of electronic warfare, according to the expert, will be especially in demand for “jamming” drones of “any class”.
Military historian Dmitry Boltenkov noted that “the war in [Nagorno] Karabakh brought the problem of fighting them to a new level.” The expert is sure that it is difficult, if not impossible, to counteract these UAVs, which are “not even the most advanced in equipping the country's military equipment” with obsolete weapons.
In November, Izvestia, citing sources in the Defense Ministry, reported that the Russian army had received sniffer drones designed to detect enemy air defense systems and anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM).
In the same month, Konstantin Makienko, Deputy Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), commenting on the results of the latest conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, in which, in his opinion, Russia was the loser, said that currently the Armed Forces of Ukraine have weapons systems, which are not in Russia, namely, third-generation anti-tank missile systems and kamikaze drones.
