A Russian UCAV/UAV killer

The Russian aircraft industry site 'AviaPort' reports 2009-09-09 about the development of an anti-UAV weapon in Russia. According to the plant chief-designer Sergey Yelizarov, the 'Radiozavod' company from Penza has started the tests of a new system for struggle the incoming UAVs\UCAVs. The system is based on the movable PU12M7 command point of the integrated anti-aircraft system, which can include "Strela-10", ZSU-23, "Tunguska", "Tor" and other SAAMs. This command point is initially used for the anti-aircraft purpose. For anti-UAV capability it was equipped with a new radar, the ELINT staton and the optic-electronnic sensors. The ELINT station discloses the UAV/UCAV datalink emission, giving the initial coordinates to the radar and OELS. 


Then, the UAV-interceptor is directed to the zone of enemy mini- or micro-UAV cruising and jams its datalink. The enemy median and big-size UAVs are intercepted with the anti-aircraft measures available.  The range of detection is about 25 km.  During the tests the UAVs of ENIKS (Kazan) were used. This company has a family of UAVs for different purposes, with the different kinds of propulsion.