URFU: Drone Protection System

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2025: Product Announcement

The innovative drone defense system developed in Russia is presented as a modular design with the ability to scale and quickly install, without the need for additional infrastructure costs. According to data published in March 2025, the structure is designed to protect power facilities and can be used at existing industrial sites. The development was carried out by specialists from the Ural Federal University (URFU) and the Moscow State University of Construction.

According to hi-tech, the system is a combination of lattice steel supports, power cables and protective nets. All structural elements are collapsible and can be configured for objects of various shapes - rectangular, triangular or rounded. Thanks to the modular principle, components can be moved and scaled depending on the needs of a particular object.

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Фото: hi-tech.mail.ru

Nikita Fomin, director of the Institute of Construction and Architecture of the Ural Federal University, stressed that the uniqueness of the developed solutions lies not only in the unification of building structures and scalability, but also in compactness: "Our development does not require significant space around the protected object. At the same time, existing analogues require significant free space to accommodate the structure, including its guy lines. "

The development is undergoing examination and patent procedures. The system was designed using the LIRA software system, where a model was created and extreme deformations were checked under hypothetical loads.

According to the calculations made, the protective structure is able to withstand not only its own weight and the mass of protective networks, but also withstand various climatic loads, including temperature differences, precipitation, and even explosion wave energy. At the next stage of research, the developers plan to test the complex in real conditions to confirm theoretical calculations.^[1]

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