Ukrainian EW expert Serhii “Flash” Bestkrestnov has published a guide to the military use of the TinySA frequency analyzer.
He also provides firmware to make the device with its many settings more accessible.
Below are some of the valuable capabilities of this device. 1/
“The state of the air” can be monitored to determine UHF radio communication frequencies to avoid. 2/
Determining the local level of EW jamming of satellite navigation frequencies for GPS or GLONASS.
Note how these systems use a number of frequency channels. 3/
The presence and intensity of local EW jamming (including friendly jammers) on the control frequency of the FPV you are about to launch. 4/
Detecting the presence of Russian fixed wing reconnaissance UAVs by their distinctive telemetry signals.
With directional antennas, multiple devices this can triangulate their position to cue a Ukrainian fighter FPV. 5/
Detecting the presence and distance (by signal strength) of nearby Russian fixed-wing kamikazes such as the formidable Lancet.
Its distinctive telemetry signal pattern is “double-horned”. 6/
And crucially, detecting the video transmission signals of nearby Russian Mavics and especially FPVs.
This is the fundamental function of a frontline drone detector. 7/
“While the topic certainly justifies a lengthy discussion, most experts and analysts will likely agree that 2024 and 2025 were the war’s worst years for Ukraine.
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“The Russian war machine, fully awakened to the realities of a drawn-out conflict, re-engineered its approach and achieved important operational advances in the roughly two years between the fall of Avdiivka and that of Pokrovsk.
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“He’s a genius. I’m proud of the president and his team! Thank you for the iron dome over our heads! It’s so wonderful to live in such historic times!
Napoleon Bonaparte couldn’t reach the Urals under Alexander I of Russia, …
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“… the Germans under Joseph Stalin couldn’t reach the Urals either, but only Vladimir Vladimirovich and his entire team decided to make history by bringing drone warfare to Siberia so nobody would get bored!
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In an interview, the Ukrainian “Polyphemus” operation was described that cleared corridors for long-range UAV strikes by systematic elimination of a network of small-scale radars.
A summary by a Russian blogger of the methods revealed in the interview: ⬇️ 1/
Russian Igor “Strelkov” Girkin writes from his prison cell of his surprise and new depths of pessimism regarding the Special Operation after Ukraine's great raid on Moscow.
“I understand that my letter will not reach you for quite some time because, it seems, it will have already lost its relevance by then. Nevertheless, I believe it is necessary to write a few words about the current situation and my impressions of it.
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“ ‘The raid on Moscow.’ To be frank, even I—with all my ‘pessimism’—did not expect that the ‘partners’ (not mine!) would be able to do this so easily and… not with missiles, but merely with drones. And what happens when, or if, the missiles start coming? 3/
In a blog entitled “Unthinkable,” Russian war correspondent and blogger Nikita Tretyakov is deeply critical of the results and consequences of Russia’s disastrous “special operation” in Ukraine. 1/
“Sergey Lavrov:
‘I don’t want to even suspect that Alaska, just like European actions, was designed to buy time for the rearmament of the Kiev regime, which would last longer than the First and Great Patriotic Wars.’
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“How can I not agree with Mr. Lavrov — there are many things that are hard to think about, and I really wouldn’t want to think about them, for example:
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“Of course they will. It’s the cornerstone of their ‘greatness’ ideology and comes with a whole pile of bonuses: the ‘Russia's internal Azov Sea’ and all that other crap.
That said, using Crimea as a launchpad to attack Ukraine is already pure military absurdity.
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“From here on, the Freedom-Loving Ukrainian Bird’s borscht recipe is in full effect:
complete air-defense collapse, the remaining fleet getting more and more holes punched in it, the shadow fleet getting shut down, total resource and logistical exhaustion, … 3/