Russian first-person-view (FPV) drones are being “suppressed by our own electronic warfare,” according to a Russian military blogger.
Svyatoslav Golikov, one of Russia’s prominent commentators on the war in Ukraine, said on Tuesday that a Russian source close to the captured eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka reported “a total lack of interaction between [Russian] FPV groups and electronic warfare units.”
Approximately 30 percent of Russian FPV drones reach the intended target areas, the blogger said in a post to messaging app Telegram. “The rest fall immediately after Lastochkyne or even during take-off” and are “suppressed by our electronic warfare.”
Earlier this week, another prominent Russian military blogger said Moscow was contending with “huge problems” on the frontline as Ukrainian drone operators worked around Russian EW equipment.
Kyiv’s troops are “already changing frequencies and ordering industrial production with this changed parameter from foreign factories,” the blogger wrote on Sunday. “Our electronic warfare is not always effective against them.”
Ukrainian sources have also reported that Russia’s military has moved its own FPV drones to frequencies different to those often used by Ukraine’s electronic warfare (EW) systems, in particular the portable versions, Samuel Bendett of the U.S.-based think tank the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) told Newsweek on Monday.
Both sides appear to believe the other is producing more FPV drones, but it is very difficult to discern true numbers, he added.
Source: Newsweek