Ukraine ‘develops system to detect and target drone operators’

Militarnyi reports that Ukraine has developed a balloon-carried electronic surveillance system designed to detect and neutralise a drone’s external pilot and crew. The Aero Azimuth, manufactured by electronic warfare systems specialist Kvertus, is deployed on an aerostat from domestic company Aerobavovna. 

“Aero Azimuth is to be deployed at a distance of 9 kilometers from the line of contact at a different range of low and medium altitudes,” the Ukrainian news outlet reports. The article also cites Kvertus representatives as saying that “when the aerostat was raised to an average flight altitude, it was possible to detect radio sources at a distance of 60 kilometers, and triangulate them at a distance of 24-30 kilometres”.