Transport security

2024: Putin allowed transport security officers to shoot down drones

The Russian president signed a law allowing transport security officers to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles. The corresponding document was published on January 30, 2024.

Transport security workers will suppress drones by suppressing and converting remote control signals for unmanned devices, affecting their control panels or damaging them, or destroying them. The procedure for making a decision on the elimination of drones and the list of officials of transport security units who can make this decision are determined by Rostransnadzor in agreement with the FSB of Russia.

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At the same time, the owners of the transport infrastructure will provide free of charge to the FSB of Russia buildings, structures, service and utility rooms, as well as equipment, means and communication services on railway, water, air transport and in the metro to fulfill the tasks of the service.

The document also clarifies the definition of UAVs: "unmanned aerial vehicles, underwater and surface vessels and vehicles, unmanned vehicles and other automated unmanned aerial systems."

Alexander Tolmachev, a member of the Committee on Transport and Development of Transport Infrastructure, in a conversation with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, explained that the bill would allow the destruction of UAVs within the boundaries of security zones around infrastructure facilities and, for example, water vessels. The document, he said. also clarifies the issues of searching and rescuing aircraft in distress or in distress, their passengers and crews, astronauts and people in distress or in distress at sea.

The norms of the law allowing transport security services to shoot down UAVs come into force on September 1, 2024.

Federal Law of November 25, 2019