This is difficult when battles are being fought over large areas. Thomas Withington, a military analyst specialising in electronic warfare, notes that such units generally need to have a target in their line of sight (small drones can be hard for radar to spot), so they would have to be on the front line to stop low-flying quadcopters of the sort that Ukraine is using for reconnaissance. Its army possesses formidable resources for electronic warfare, in the form of mobile units on trucks accompanying ground forces. Military drones (such as the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 which Ukraine is using) have electronic filters to reduce noise and resist jamming, but consumer drones are vulnerable. A jammed drone may return to the last location where it could receive commands, attempt a soft landing or simply crash. How is Ukraine winning the jamming war?Ī drone receives commands from its operator via a radio link which can be lost if the signal is overwhelmed by radio noise, either due to interference or deliberate jamming on the same frequency. Russian military drones are also falling from the skies at an alarming rate. But it has also successfully used consumer drones for reconnaissance and to direct artillery fire, while larger “octocopters” (which have eight propellers) have destroyed Russian T-72 tanks by dropping anti-tank grenades. Many analysts had assumed that Russia’s electronic jamming would neutralise any drone which lacked military-grade communications. U KRAINE’S DRONES were not supposed to still be buzzing over the heads of Russian forces.
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