Alexey Rogozin, General Director of the "Center for the Development of Transport Technologies" ANO, stated that "swarm systems" of reconnaissance and strike UAVs with widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) will be actively developed in 2025. Military expert Evgeny Damantsev explained how Russian military personnel can combat them.
The development of "swarm systems" has a number of tactical, technical, operational, and tactical justifications. One of them is the need to overcome the most powerful multi-band jamming barriers formed by modern mobile and portable electronic warfare systems against control and video transmission channels to the control center, as well as GPS/GLONASS correction radio navigation modules.
According to him, the integrated navigation system on advanced drones will work in tandem with AI modules. It will ensure the fulfillment of the combat mission through optoelectronic correlation with the terrain. In addition, UAVs will be trained to identify stationary and moving enemy objects.
These guidance principles will partially solve the problem of the radio horizon in difficult terrain, and in some cases may eliminate the need for UAV operators to use transmitting modes of operation of control terminals. This minimizes the likelihood of detecting drone launch points.
The expert believes that standard electronic warfare systems will be less effective in eliminating the threat of a "drone swarm." They can be replaced by directed-energy electromagnetic microwave systems. Such systems disable the electronic component base of data, and laser-beam systems disable optoelectronic modules of drones.
At the same time, as Damantsev emphasizes, the main means of countering a "drone swarm" will be anti-aircraft systems with remotely controlled projectiles or with ammunition with programmable fuses. Russian military personnel can also use mobile anti-aircraft guns with GSHG-7.62 automatic guns, and robotic platforms with carbines with shrapnel shells.
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