Sheremetyevo Airport is again strengthening its protection against drones. Issue price - 781 million rubles

As TAdviser discovered, Sheremetyevo International Airport decided to strengthen protection against unmanned aircraft and introduce another system for detecting and suppressing them. The airport announced the corresponding request for proposals with an initial price of 781.2 million rubles on October 30, 2025^[1].

As follows from the technical assignment for the request for proposals published in the public domain in the UIS "Procurement," through the introduction of the new system, Sheremetyevo expects to increase the efficiency of detecting and suppressing unmanned aircraft in the airport transport security zone and on the approaches to it at a distance of up to 3 thousand meters, including improved radar detection of moving air objects, taking into account the complex configuration and occupied area.

The system shall include the subsystems of detection, electronic suppression of unmanned aircraft, centralized administration and control, as well as the subsystem of objective control. As part of the supplied solution, Kaspersky Lab software is declared in the technical requirements: Kaspersky Antidrone with an indefinite license and technical support for a period of 3 years, indicated in the technical requirements.

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Фото: Sheremetyevo Airport Press Service

The Kaspersky Antidrone security system is already used at Sheremetyevo airport. Thus, apparently, now another one should appear there. In addition to Kaspersky Antidrone, the air harbor also uses ENOT complexes equipped with radar stations and a rotary platform with a video camera, a thermal imager and an electronic suppression device, as well as Strizh 3M protection, which includes a radio signal detector and a jammer. The new system must be integrated with all this equipment.

The decision will include neural networks and artificial intelligence. Thus, it will provide radar detection of objects with localization and subsequent classification using specialized algorithms of neural networks and AI. In addition, the required functions declare optical detection of objects in airspace with subsequent localization and classification using AI and neural networks obtained based on the results of the radar detection technology and radio frequency analysis with the function of positioning unmanned aircraft.

Work on equipping Sheremetyevo Airport with a system will be carried out in two stages. First, it is necessary to provide the coverage area of ​ ​ the system in the area of ​ ​ the first and second runways (VVP-1 and GDP-2), improve radar detection, and at the second stage, extend the coverage area of ​ ​ the system in the VVP-3.

Shortly before the announcement of the request for proposals, at the end of August 2025, Sheremetyevo Airport conducted a tactical and special exercise to counter attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles and work out actions when receiving information about the direction towards the airport of an armed sabotage group. Rostransnadzor at that time already highly appreciated the work on the introduction of new technologies to ensure protection against acts of illegal interference and incoming threats at the airport^[2] the^[3]

Note that due to unmanned aircraft, Russian airports for security purposes periodically introduce the Carpet plan - a closed sky regime, which means the requirement to immediately land or leave the zone of operation of such a regime of airborne aircraft.

Against this background, the players of the air transportation market incur additional costs, in connection with which in October 2025 the Association of Air Transport Operators (AEVT), uniting the largest Russian airlines, including Aeroflot, proposed to the Ministry of Transport to hold a meeting on the carrier's compensation for the costs associated with the announcement of the Carpet signals^[4]We are talking about expenses due to the fact that pilots are forced to put aircraft on spare airfields, and carriers pay increased salaries to crew members due to an increase in working hours, as well as about the costs of providing passengers with food and accommodation while waiting for rescheduled flights.

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