Russia starts testing "friend or foe" system for drones with 100 km range
The Russian state holding Rosel, part of Rostec, has announced the start of testing a new automatic drone recognition system based on the friend-or-foe principle, covering a range of up to 100 km and altitudes of up to 5 km.
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The system is designed to automatically identify friendly UAVs and is equipped with a radar identifier mounted on the drone itself. It weighs less than 90 grams and has minimal power consumption, which allows it to be integrated into a wide range of both civilian and military drones.
One of the prototypes of the system is currently being tested on an industrial drone, Geodesia-401. At the same time, Rostec does not rule out the use of this technology in reconnaissance UAVs.
Lieutenant Colonel Yaroslav Gonchar, head of the Aerorazvedka NGO, notes that the emergence of this technology was predictable. In his opinion, it allows Russia to increase the level of coordination between drones and aviation, as well as to avoid air incidents. He advises Ukrainian developers to take into account the threat of such a system in Russian UAVs when modernising their own weapons.
Source: Militarnyi
