Ukraine has plans to produce thousands of long-range attack drones in 2024 capable of hitting targets deep in Russia, said Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov in an interview with Reuters published on Feb. 12. Ukraine has intensified its efforts to ramp up domestic production of attack drones, a critical tool on the battlefield, aiming to manufacture 1 million drones this year. Multiple drone strikes have been reported on oil depots and refineries in Russia in January, including Bryansk, Oryol, and Leningrad oblasts...
https://kyivindependent.com/fedorov-...rones-in-2024/
Ukraine’s Pokrova Spoofing System Tells Shaheds To Get Lost
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, then Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, revealed the existence of the system last November in a paper laying out his plans to break out the current military impasse. “…the capabilities to counter high-precision enemy weapons (guided missiles, UAVs) are increasing due to the deployment of a nationwide ‘Pokrova’ electronic warfare system with the possibility of replacing the satellite radio navigation field ('spoofing'), suppression of satellite radio navigation. along the entire line of contact and in most of the territory of Ukraine,” Zaluzhnyi wrote.
Pokrova is the Ukrainian name for the Feast Of Protection of the Mother of God, which celebrates an occasion in the 10th century when an apparition of the Virgin Mary is said to have spread her veil over a church in Constantinople during a siege, causing the besiegers to withdraw. Its namesake similarly throws a protective veil over Ukraine.
Jamming overwhelms navigation systems (GPS and others such as the Russian GLONASS) with noise. Spoofing causes them to give an incorrect location by generating a fake signal, and most of the known examples come from Russia. Drivers close to the Kremlin find their satnav tells them that they are at the airport, and ships in the Black Sea may appear to be miles inland. Putin appears to be surrounded by a bubble of spoofing, likely as protection against drone attacks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidha...s-to-get-lost/