The newest Russian electronic warfare system Yastreb-S is being upgraded to suppress Starlink satellite communications, which enemy drones use. This was reported to TASS by Igor Potapov, an official representative of the developer company NPP.
The Yastreb complex itself is currently undergoing tests. The Yastreb-S version requires modernization with frequency shifting to the operating ranges of Starlink systems for maximum suppression of all possible threats. The shifter has already been made; it remains to be integrated and tested.
According to Potapov, this will deprive strike UAVs of satellite communications.
The developer AO NPP previously reported that the Yastreb 1.0 complex is undergoing final approbation: the product scans a band from 100 to 6000 MHz, conducts electronic reconnaissance, and suppresses threats precisely, rather than "blurring" power over a wide band. At the same time, Igor Potapov, a representative of the enterprise, named the next stage of development — shifting frequencies to Starlink operating ranges.
We have already reported that the Yastreb architecture is based on abandoning barrage jammers and on pinpoint impact on the drone's operating frequency, which allows working with frequency hopping mode. However, the 100–6000 MHz range, although it covers most of the used communication spectrum, does not directly capture the Starlink Ku-band — hence the need for a separate modification.
A separate direction of the same problem is proprietary communication channels for drones: the editorial board wrote in September about the Hermes satellite constellation, which is being prepared as an interference-resistant control channel for drones at distances over 200 km.
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