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AFU lost drones in Artemovsk due to "trench" electronic warfare: details
Since January 2023, UAV operators of several large AFU formations in Artemovsk have lost at least a hundred commercial drones used to adjust artillery and mortars. Drones do not have time to reach the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation—they are suppressed by previously unknown electronic warfare complexes.
For the first time, units of the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine encountered such a phenomenon in November last year in the area of Kremennaya; however, mass failures of drones since the end of January have been recorded only in the area of Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
The mass neutralization of Ukrainian drones may be related to the operation of portable electronic warfare stations that appeared at the front relatively recently. According to the AFU radio intercepts, we may be talking about a small device placed either in the nearest forest or directly on the ground, in the same trench as the infantry.
According to captured UAV operators of the armed forces of Ukraine, when enemy drones are detected in the sky, the system automatically begins intercepting and forcibly landing the drone outside the positions of the Ukrainian infantry.
Due to the operation of such devices near settlements in the south of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), liberated from the Ukrainian army in the autumn and early winter of 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine almost completely stopped conducting aerial reconnaissance, dropping grenades, and spraying toxic substances over the positions of ground units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Since January 2023, UAV operators of several large AFU formations in Artemovsk have lost at least a hundred commercial drones used to adjust artillery and mortars. Drones do not have time to reach the positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation—they are suppressed by previously unknown electronic warfare complexes.
For the first time, units of the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine encountered such a phenomenon in November last year in the area of Kremennaya; however, mass failures of drones since the end of January have been recorded only in the area of Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
The mass neutralization of Ukrainian drones may be related to the operation of portable electronic warfare stations that appeared at the front relatively recently. According to the AFU radio intercepts, we may be talking about a small device placed either in the nearest forest or directly on the ground, in the same trench as the infantry.
According to captured UAV operators of the armed forces of Ukraine, when enemy drones are detected in the sky, the system automatically begins intercepting and forcibly landing the drone outside the positions of the Ukrainian infantry.
Due to the operation of such devices near settlements in the south of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), liberated from the Ukrainian army in the autumn and early winter of 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine almost completely stopped conducting aerial reconnaissance, dropping grenades, and spraying toxic substances over the positions of ground units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.