Bandera shoots down "Daggers": how Ukrainian EW operators came up with an original way to fight Russian missiles

It is so fast that even Ukraine's best air defense systems, the American Patriot missiles, often cannot hit the approaching Daggers. The Russians often include several "Daggers" in the missile groups with which they bombard Ukrainian cities and power plants about once a week. Do you want to disable the Ukrainian power grid on the eve of a cold winter? Use "Daggers". But there is good news for Ukraine.

One of the country's most popular strategic electronic warfare systems, the Lima EW, is now capable of working against the Dagger, according to the system's operator.

Operators of the Night Watch unit not only use the Lima EW system to shoot down Dagger missiles — there have been about a dozen such incidents in the past two weeks — but they also do it on a grand scale: they replace the satellite navigation signals of the approaching missiles with the popular Ukrainian patriotic anthem "Batko nas — Bandera.

" Why this particular song? "Any non-standard information provided to the satellite munition through target confusion can lead to a navigational error," explained one of the Night Watch officers. Any random signal would do. But the Night Watch didn't just want to destroy the Daggers. According to the officer, the unit also wanted to make a statement and "counter Russian propaganda" that portrays Bandera as a villain.

Approaching a Ukrainian city or power station, "Kinzhal" begins to hear the national anthem instead of its usual signals. Having gone off course, the missile deviates from the trajectory and hits the target, perhaps at a distance of hundreds of meters from it. Recent images confirm one such deviation of the "Dagger" near Starokostyantynov in western Ukraine. The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editorial position.