After the Defense Forces began to successfully use anti-aircraft FPV drones against Russian reconnaissance drones such as Zala or Orlan, the enemy began to discuss and look for ways to protect their reconnaissance drones, because anti-aircraft FPVs became a very effective solution, thanks to which it was possible to shoot down hundreds of enemy drones.
Eventually, the enemy began to invent countermeasures, first at the level of theory, thinking about whether it was possible to effectively defend against anti-aircraft FPV drones with the help of FPV drone detectors or low-power electronic warfare.
And later, the ruscists began to put their ideas into practice, in particular, to install rear view cameras, thanks to which, in theory, the drone operator should see the threat in advance and respond to it. Did they demonstrate such “ingenious” solutions as “coloring” when the Russians applied the insignia of the Air Force of Ukraine to the drone.
Despite the clumsiness of some attempts, in general, the ruscists quickly came to an interesting decision based on machine vision and artificial intelligence to automatically make turns to evade Ukrainian anti-aircraft drones. Later, this year, a video appeared with the trophy Zala, which is equipped with such an “evasion” system and which was studied by specialists from the Scream Industries laboratory.
At the same time, as specialist Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov now says, the Russians have begun to produce their Zala reconnaissance drones with a serially built-in anti-aircraft FPV drone evasion system.
“One Zala-‘evader’ who was evading an interceptor drone fell. On board, it has a CSI camera with a loop, has an HDMI connection, and is a converter, respectively. It has separate power. Also, in older models, only a central day or night module or a day module with a night module was connected.
The new version has two HDMIs, one for the central camera, the second for recognizing intercepting drones,” Scream Industries says.
The specialist also managed to communicate with our military and, in particular, show a video of how this system works in practice – in the video above, an enemy UAV successfully maneuvers when our anti-aircraft drone tries to attack it.
According to preliminary estimates, it is too early to assess how effective such a solution can be, at the same time, it is worth noting that the ruscists will indeed be able to reduce the losses of their “wings” from our anti-aircraft FPV drones by a certain percentage.
One of the solutions against such protection, as Flash notes, may be to use machine vision already on our FPV drones.
Also, an intermediate option may be to use more anti-aircraft drones at one target. FPV drones with a shotgun can also be a solution.