Ukrainian military receives powerful anti-drone system AUDS (video)
The complex is equipped with a radar, a camera with infrared sensors and an interference generator. It can detect and suppress a large number of UAVs at a distance of up to 10 km.
The Ukrainian military has received modern AUDS systems that will be able to defeat Russian drones. This was reported on the Twitter page of Julian Repke, a journalist for the German publication Bild.
Reason for my mistake: The same system is portrayed by illustrating different stories on the HEL in journal homepages.https://t.co/bOsAvMqTXA
– Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) July 10, 2023
AUDS in Ukraine
Initially, Julian Repke published photos of a military man with mysterious equipment that he mistook for a laser weapon. The face of the man in the video was blurred, but the media found the original on the Facebook page of Ukrainian communications specialist and electronic warfare expert Serhiy Flesh.
“There is an anti-drone rifle, and this is the barrel of an anti-drone machine gun,” the author of the publication noted.
The Ukraine Weapons Tracker group pointed out Julian Repke’s mistake and recognized the equipment as the Anti-UAV Defense System, or AUDS for short. One of the users also mentioned it in the comments under Serhiy Flesh’s post.
According to the Militarny website, the AUDS system was developed by three companies from the United Kingdom: Blighter Surveillance Systems, Enterprise Control Systems and Chess Dynamics. They combined three key technologies in their device: a radar station, an electronic scanning antenna, and a radio frequency interference generator.
How AUDS works
First, the Blighter A400’s radar detects the drone’s approach, picking up its signals, and identifies the model. As Blighter Surveillance Systems writes on its website, the radar can operate at any time of the day or night, as well as in any weather.
Upon detecting the threat, AUDS connects a Piranha 46 camera with infrared sensors to better aim and identify the type of threat, and then hits the drone with powerful radiation that blocks commands from the control panel – the pilot can see the malfunction message. The system operator can regulate the time of exposure to the UAV, for example, keep it in sight until the battery runs out. The system selects frequencies in the range from 400 MHz to 6 GHz.
“There are a number of frequency bands that are used by all manufacturers. The UAV is targeted by such a powerful radio signal that it can only see our AUDS signal,” Paul Taylor, a representative of Enterprise Control Systems, told Business Insider.
The main characteristics of AUDS:
- detection range – 10 km;
- the minimum target size is 0.01 m²;
- output power is 4 W;
- azimuth coverage – 180° (standard) or 360° (optional);
- elevation angle – 10° (M10S antennas) or 20° (W20S antennas);
- Height adjustment – from -40° to +30°;
- the maximum camera speed is 60 degrees per second;
- optical zoom – x30;
- digital zoom – x12;
- The wavelength of the thermal imager is from 3 to 5 microns.
Recently, Antidrone Ukraine has introduced a new C-Vog Shield Mega system, also called the “Hell’s Frying Pan”. According to the developers, it can jam virtually all types of drones, from Chinese DJI Mavic to Russian Lancets, thanks to a wide range of frequencies.
