Sheremetyevo Airport has installed a radar complex to combat drones

At Sheremetyevo Airport, the ENOT-SD radar-optical complex was introduced to combat unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The press service of the Moscow air harbor announced this on November 14, 2023.

Radar "ENOT" was developed by the Scientific and Production Center "Electronic Computing and Information Systems" (JSC SPC "Elvis"). As reported on the company's website, the system is designed to detect unmanned aircraft of small and ultra-small classes (takeoff weight from 0.25 kg), as well as ground and surface targets.

Radar-optical complex "ENOT-SD"

As noted in Sheremetyevo, "ENOT-SD" can also identify and minimize threats to flights associated with birds. The system determines the coordinates, height, speed and direction of movement of the flock, after which the data is transmitted to the ornithologist engineer. This allows him to quickly move to a specific bird detection area to take measures to possibly adjust the flight path, and in case of intersection with the trajectory of aircraft, immediately inform the dispatcher about the need to take measures, up to the closure of the runway, the airport press service said.

They also stressed that the algorithm of the complex excludes the impact of interference on the ground infrastructure of radio technical support for flights and aviation communications, as well as on aircraft. It is noted that the system plans to use Kaspersky Lab software using artificial intelligence, which has no analogues.

Sheremetyevo Airport has installed a radar-optical complex for detecting and countering UAVs against the background of frequent launches of Ukrainian combat drones. On August 31, 2023, 139 flights were disrupted at Moscow airports. That day, a Ukrainian drone was shot down in the sky over the Voskresensky district of the Moscow region.^[1]

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