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World News See other World News Articles Title: Ukraine is losing 10,000 drones a month to Russian electronic-warfare systems they send fake signals and screw with their navigation, researchers say. A new report estimates Ukraine is losing roughly 10,000 drones every month. A sophisticated electronic-warfare system is among Russia's biggest strengths, researchers said. A new assessment of Russia's military capabilities on the front line estimated that its forces were taking down about 10,000 Ukrainian drones every month. Electronic warfare is a "critical component" of Russia's tactics and contributing to the staggering losses of Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, a report released Friday by the UK's Royal United Services Institute found. The figures — which amount to more than 300 drones a day — were attributed to three unnamed Ukrainian officers interviewed in April and May. The report did not specify which models comprised the claimed losses or in what proportion, but James Patton Rogers, a University of Southern Denmark war-studies professor and drone expert, told Insider the majority of those being lost were relatively cheap, small commercial drones used for surveillance. The RUSI report said that along the roughly 750 miles of the conflict's front line, Russia maintained a major electronic-warfare system roughly every 6 miles. These are set back about 4 miles from the front and focused mainly on neutralizing drones, the report said. Sophisticated Russian systems such as the Shipovnik-Aero jamming station are hard to detect and can imitate other signals, the researchers said. "It also has a sophisticated range of effects for downing UAVs," they said, including interfering with navigational systems. Ukraine fields a wide variety of drones, from small, commercial-grade UAVs often used for reconnaissance or as loitering munitions, up to the multimillion-dollar Bayraktar TB2, capable of taking out Russian tanks. Drone warfare was a celebrated aspect of Ukraine's early success in holding back the Russian advance, prompting an official fundraising campaign — United24 — which was created to form a "drone army." But by summer, it was clear that Russia's electronic-warfare and air-defense capabilities had ramped up, Insider's Alia Shoaib reported. Frontline drone operators told The Guardian in April that one of the most popular models — the DJI commercial drone — was rapidly losing its effectiveness. Nonetheless, Patton Rogers said, Ukraine is developing "its own resilient drone systems to fill this gap in capacity." Poster Comment: Russia uses drones to target artillery strikes. Ukrainians fire one shell for every ten the Russians fire. And Russian drones work better. They use specialized non-commercial drones to listen to cell phones and radio transmissions for targeting as well as suicide drones to take out artillery and tanks. In fact the Ukrainians are losing more artillery and tanks every day than NATO sends. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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