Russian Yastreb-S will become a Starlink killer

The NPP company and the Advanced Research Foundation (FPI) are developing the Yastreb-S electronic warfare (EW) system against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the Starlink system. The Izvestia newspaper reports this with reference to the Center for Unmanned Systems and Technologies (CDST).

According to the publication, Yastreb-S should blind enemy UAVs equipped with Starlink when approaching a protected object. “The stated operating range of the system is from 100 megahertz to 15 gigahertz. This makes it possible to block almost all frequencies on which Ukrainian drones fly,” the publication says.

It is also noted that Yastreb-S can be used not only for electronic warfare, but also for electronic reconnaissance, intercepting a video signal from an enemy UAV.

The publication notes that other Russian countermeasures against Starlink, for example, the Volna-Kupol-Garant system, suppress signals directly on satellites.