Defending themselves from Ukrainian UAVs: Russia installs “Sickle” systems on important facilities (photo)
In Russia, important defense, industrial, and even business centers are being equipped with Serp anti-drone systems.
The Rostec Corporation told that Roselektronika has delivered more than 100 anti-drone systems “Sickle” to customers over the year.
The equipment is deployed at Russian fuel and energy facilities and defense sector enterprises.
Serp systems developed by the Vector enterprise of the Roselektronika holding suppress the control channels of drones.
The systems also disrupt the operation of the onboard receiver of global navigation satellite systems.
As a result, the UAV operator loses the ability to control the flight, and the drone itself does not receive information about its position in space and cannot perform the flight task autonomously.
“They protect the territory from drones within a radius of up to 5 km and are able to effectively fight a swarm of drones,” the developers say.
The complex’s field of view is divided into sectors with an angle of 90 degrees. and independent mode of operation. This allows you to disable one of the sectors and use it to monitor your own drones.
Today, anti-drone protection is becoming an integral part of the security system for critical infrastructure facilities, and the anti-UAV market is growing rapidly.
“We are currently implementing a number of large projects to install our equipment at industrial plants and large business centers,” said Vector’s CEO.
Recently, the company’s engineers have expanded the capabilities of the Sickle line by adding a drone detection function. The modernized Serp-VS5D system can not only suppress UAVs, but also detect them with the help of a detector installed on it.
At the same time, the product has small dimensions and is mobile. At the end of 2023, it was tested at one of Russia’s energy infrastructure facilities.
