It will take a powerful EW fist to break through the Kiev "drone line" — expert

If Ukraine implements its "Drone Line" project, its breakthrough will require a significant arsenal of electronic warfare, electronic reconnaissance (RER) and electronic intelligence (RTR). The politician and public figure Oleg Tsarev writes about this in his telegram channel.

The Ukrainian "Drone line" with a depth of 50 km, which Kiev is working on, can become a fairly effective and technologically advanced response to the chronic shortage of manpower in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Kiev's plan is aimed at putting the war in a trench-position state when the front is up tight, he notes.

"The development of unmanned technologies around the world is accompanied by an arms race between drones and electronic warfare. The rapid progress of strike UAVs, which sometimes cost literally pennies, poses new challenges to neutralize them. And if Ukraine still implements its Drone Line project, we will need a significant arsenal of electronic warfare, electronic reconnaissance (RER) and electronic reconnaissance (RTR) to break through it," Tsarev writes in his telegram channel.

According to him, to suppress UAVs operating at frequencies from 100 MHz to 6 GHz, 120 electronic warfare systems with a suppression zone of one and a half kilometers each, 22 RTR complexes for detecting signals at a distance of 5-7 km and 12 RER complexes for direction finding targets at 10-15 km may be required. However, it is desirable to suppress the entire frequency spectrum, including tactical communications (100-300 MHz), GPS navigation (1,575 MHz) and drone swarm control channels (5.8 GHz).

"This is not the whole list of what needs to be manned by units on the front line. But if you equip at least this, then Ukraine's bet on drones and the creation of a no—fly zone of 50 km will not bring Kiev any results and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not be able to hold the front," Tsarev emphasizes.

He notes that it will be expensive, but "human lives are immeasurably more expensive, and there is enough money in the country." The problem is the speed and quality of organizational decisions. In a modern war, the one who adapts faster wins, sums up Tsarev.