The British Army assisted the A422 radar system to assist Ukraine in searching and locating small Russian drones.

(taken from Bright Company website)

[Compiled by Chen Chengliang/Comprehensive Report] In the face of waves of Russian suicide drones, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed on the 18th that NATO will deliver air defense systems to Ukraine in the near future.

Earlier, Stoltenberg revealed that NATO would assist Ukraine with "hundreds of jammers" that would disable Russian and Iranian drones.

Germany has delivered 1 IRIS-T SLM air defense system to Ukraine, and the United States is expected to assist 6 sets of "National Advanced Air Defense System" (NASAMS), the first batch of which is scheduled to be delivered this month.

However, whether it is IRIS-T SLM or NASAMS, the anti-aircraft missiles launched are mainly aimed at locking high-value targets such as fighter planes, cruise or ballistic missiles, and are used to deal with the estimated cost of only 20,000 US dollars (about NT $ 640,000) Iranian "Witness-136" (Shahed-136), not cost-effective.

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It is also under such a low-cost situation that the Russian army can deploy a large number of kamikaze drones to paralyze infrastructure targets such as fuel depots and power stations.

Stoltenberg said on October 13 after a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels that hundreds of drone "jammers" would be provided to Ukraine in the near future, noting that these "jammers" would enable Russian and Iranian drones invalid.

Samuel Bendett, a drone expert from the think tank CNA, said that the "Witness-136" has a range of 1,000 kilometers, which is significantly shorter when used in the Ukrainian battlefield. This is because the GPS navigation system it carries is not very good. Strong, easily disturbed.

Stoltenberg did not disclose what kind of "jammers" NATO wanted to help Ukraine. Several Ukrainian media named the A422 anti-drone radar system manufactured by British company Blighter Surveillance Systems.

According to Army Technology, the A422 is a military radar used to detect and monitor drones. It can detect up to 700 airborne targets at a distance of 20 kilometers, ranging from stationary hovering to 400 kilometers per hour.

And able to distinguish drones from birds through artificial intelligence (AI), it also provides moving object detection and machine learning classification for 180° long-range vision.

Bright Surveillance Systems announced in June that it would be responsible for supplying the A422 anti-drone radar system as part of a British military aid to Ukraine.