Sapsan (anti-drone system)

History

2025: Product Announcement

In early May 2025, the Belarusian company "Volatility" presented a mobile complex for countering small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles "Sapsan." The system is capable of automated search, detection, tracking, electronic suppression and destruction of enemy drones.

The Sapsan platform consists of reconnaissance and firing modules (ROM) and electronic warfare modules (electronic warfare). The tasks of the ROM include radar and optical-electronic reconnaissance of drones and their fire damage. The key components of the ROM are the Zorki-R3DM1 radar (supplier - UP "NTC" LEMT "BelOMO"), a mobile telecommunication set (supplier - LLC "Universaltelecom") and a BU-43 control unit (supplier - JSC "KB" Display "), on the basis of which the system of automated control of the complex is implemented.

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Фото: RussianArms

The Adunok-V2PKT product (supplier - KB Display OJSC) with the ability to install two Kalashnikov tank machine guns (PKT) of 7.62 mm caliber is responsible for the destruction of drones as part of the ROM. The rate of fire is about 1,500 rounds per minute. The radius of destruction in the case of FPV drones varies from 150 to 350 meters, in the case of UAVs of the "Lute" type - from 750 to 850 meters.

The Sapsan complex can combine up to ten ROMs and one or two electronic warfare systems, which allows solving various problems. Moreover, reconnaissance and firing modules can be used not only as part of Sapsan, but also independently. They are made using a mobile platform with autonomous life support and power supply systems.

Sapsan is designed primarily to cover critical objects from small-sized drones. After electronic warfare suppression, drones are destroyed by machine-gun fire.^[1]

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