Portable Drone Detectors

[yahya]

Commercial drones can be easily weaponized. A Russian company makes portable drone detectors called Bulat. These units apparently scan the known frequencies in UHF and analyze the waveforms used by commercial drones, including the FPV ones, and warn the user about their transmissions in vicinity. The disadvantage is that Bulat can operate only for 5 hours on a single battery charge.

 

[yahya]

A home-made Ukrainian drone detector with a detection angle of 8 degrees that operates at 2.4 GHz.

 

[yahya]

Asel Labs (https://asellabs.ru) makes a portable FPV drone detector, which covers 900 MHz, 1.4, 3.3-3.5, 4.9, 5.8 GHz, 2400-2500 MHz, 5150-5350 MHz, and 5530-5900 MHz.

 

[GTX]

A home-made Ukrainian drone detector with a detection angle of 8 degrees that operates at 2.4 GHz.

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Looks like a 1930s - 1950s scifi gun

 

[yahya]

Russian company Eliars of Energodar makes a portable drone detector called MOPS (https://eliars.ru/dron-detector), which scans the 400-6000 MHz band for the drone transmissions and reportedly can detect an UAV from ca. 1000 yds.

 

[yahya]

Another Russian FPV drone detector, Filin-I.

 

[yahya]

Portable FPV drone detectors are used also on-board rotary wing aircraft as evidenced by an SM entry:

Fighterbomber

Добрые люди из числа подписчиков помогли вооружить наши ударные группы армейской авиации десятками детекторов дронов и уже пришли первые отзывы от военлетов. Детекторы в воздухе "видят" дальше чем на земле, видят и дроны и дроноводов (естественно излучение передатчиков, а не самих...

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[yahya]

A new small number series device has emerged in the battlefield.

 

[yahya]

Although not fully portable, these "traffic lights" reportedly appeared in Ukraine, where they show the proximity of FPV drones.