Russia has developed an anti-drone unmanned vehicle named after the Disney robot Wall-E, reportedly equipped with an electronic warfare system.
Knewz.com has learned that one of the features of this new anti-drone robot is the capability to suppress communication channels between a drone and its operator.
The Russian news outlet RIA Novosti documented the testing phase of the Wall-E anti-drone robot and the “Fumigator” electronic warfare module installed in it.
“Russian developers of the [electronic warfare] systems showed the first domestic caterpillar platform with a jamming system installed on it, which successfully passed all the tests,” RIA Novosti wrote on Telegram.
“The task of “Rebovets [the name of the manufacturing company] Wall-E” is to cover the assault groups of the infantry, its technical capabilities allow working in standby mode for a very long time.”
According to The Telegraph, Rebovets claimed that the “Fumigator” module is capable of producing a dome with a radius between 820 to 980 feet, and crossing the threshold would disrupt the communication channels between Ukrainian drones and their operators, essentially rendering them useless.
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The Ukrainian media outlet Militarnyi reported that secure control channels installed on the Wall-E will ensure that the operators are never disconnected from the robot, despite the powerful communications suppressor of the robot.
“The communication is our key, it is video secure. And the installation of electronic warfare, that is, the same Fumigator that has already passed all kinds of tests for three days,” the developers said in a statement, via Militarnyi.
The robot has been designed to provide assistance to Russian infantry groups on assault missions.
The Fumigator electronic warfare system that the Wall-E is meant to carry is so portable that during its testing phase, the module was installed on a frame that was worn by a soldier.
The newly developed Russian electronic warfare element is being touted as a deterrent for Ukrainian kamikaze drones, which have been pivotal for Volodymyr Zelensky‘s forces in the Ukraine war.
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Suffering significant personnel losses in the war, Russia has been forced to come up with unmanned war elements, although many of these innovations have failed to stand up to a Ukrainian drone.
A video posted by Ukraine’s 46th Separate Aeromobile Brigade of the Air Force back on June 11 showed a squat-looking boxlike vehicle with a turret being targeted by a kamikaze drone.
As soon as the projectile made contact with the tank, the latter exploded, ripping off its customized armor and sending shards of hot metal skywards.
This scenario is a nod to other failed efforts by the Russians to fortify their tank’s vulnerabilities by covering them with extra armor plating.
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The new (and improvised) armor earned these tracked vehicles the moniker, “Turtle Tanks”, and while touted among the Russian ranks as indestructible, they are succumbing to Ukraine’s forces in as dramatic a fashion as the stock standard units.
Notably, “Turtle Tank” is one of Putin’s so-called “Franken Tanks” due to their jumbled assemblage of parts. These bizarre-looking fighting craft were first spotted in March 2023.
At the time, Knewz.com reported that the implementation of these vehicles was a testament to the depletion of resources suffered by the invading country.
The article further noted at that early stage of the war, these “Frankenstein tanks composed of a 25mm 2M-3 twin-barrelled naval anti-aircraft turrets mounted on Soviet-era amphibious fighting vehicle[s],” and likened them to the improvised vehicles seen in the movie, Mad Max.
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