New drones help the Russian Armed Forces search for Ukrainian pilots at the front: how do they manage it

Share: The Russian military invented a new way to search for Defense Forces drone crews using an FPV drone. The tactic makes it possible to identify pilots by the signals of video transmitters, which are "invisible" to radio-electronic intelligence stations. This was announced on his Telegram channel by Ukrainian specialist in military technology Serhii Beskrestnov with the pseudonym "Flash".

A Russian FPV drone with a large battery flies along the front line, hovering over landing sites and villages. At the same time, it captures video and records it on the SD card at once in several frequency ranges. After the drone is returned, the occupants take out the map and analyze the video to discover the location of the FPV pilots who take off on the low power video transmitters.

Video signal interception points that are far away do not see weak signals, and such unmanned radio scouts are good at capturing images with milliwatt power up close. "I will not publicly teach countermeasures, because we can also play these games," said the specialist. Earlier it was reported that the Russians started launching strange FPV drones with ring wings. This could be the Comet model, which was first publicly tested in the summer of 2025.