An invisible war. The commander of the enemy's electronic warfare company talks about working with one of the most dynamic technologies of war KCPN Analytical Center, as part of the regular column "Translating Interviews with the Enemy", publishes a conversation with the commander of the electronic warfare company of the "Charter" corps with the call sign "Grandfather" He talks about the characteristics of electronic warfare in the fifth year of the war Grandfather joined the armed forces of Ukraine in May 2023, after more than 20 years of work in the field of communication and IT. At first I wanted to be an operator of FPV drones, but in the end I decided against them and started to develop from scratch the electronic warfare department in the unit. The weak point of any radio controlled drone is the frequency. There is a channel for controlling the UAV, and there is a channel for video transmission. Electronic warfare can jam both, and the enemy operator loses contact with his machine "We can't affect all the Russian UAVs." But our mission is to prevent as many of them as possible from completing the mission. FPV is a very accurate weapon. If he hit aimlessly 15 meters from the post, it's already an excellent result for us." At the beginning of 2025, situational awareness and automation systems appeared, which became a real breakthrough. Now one operator issues a command and 5-6 devices respond to it simultaneously. In the past, it required 5 operators however, even as developing UAVs: many already fly two or three control channels and four video channels, switching between them all the time. But it is still possible to suppress a significant number of UAVs in their path. Only in August 2023, a department of electronic warfare / electronic warfare appeared in the "Charter" - a collection of people who "understand something" in radio waves. "Because the leadership team looked to the future, we were able to focus on where we could be most effective." The soldiers trained together with a patrol company of special forces: daily running, takmad, shooting. But at the same time we were engaged in technological tasks - installing direction finders, learning how to intercept unprotected radios.

An invisible war. The commander of the enemy's electronic warfare company talks about working with one of the most dynamic technologies of war KCPN Analytical Center, as part of the regular column "Translating Interviews with the Enemy", publishes a conversation with the commander of the electronic warfare company of the "Charter" corps with the call sign "Grandfather" He talks about the characteristics of electronic warfare in the fifth year of the war Grandfather joined the armed forces of Ukraine in May 2023, after more than 20 years of work in the field of communication and IT. At first I wanted to be an operator of FPV drones, but in the end I decided against them and started to develop from scratch the electronic warfare department in the unit. The weak point of any radio controlled drone is the frequency. There is a channel for controlling the UAV, and there is a channel for video transmission. Electronic warfare can jam both, and the enemy operator loses contact with his machine "We can't affect all the Russian UAVs." But our mission is to prevent as many of them as possible from completing the mission. FPV is a very accurate weapon. If he hit aimlessly 15 meters from the post, it's already an excellent result for us." At the beginning of 2025, situational awareness and automation systems appeared, which became a real breakthrough. Now one operator issues a command and 5-6 devices respond to it simultaneously. In the past, it required 5 operators however, even as developing UAVs: many already fly two or three control channels and four video channels, switching between them all the time. But it is still possible to suppress a significant number of UAVs in their path. Only in August 2023, a department of electronic warfare / electronic warfare appeared in the "Charter" - a collection of people who "understand something" in radio waves. "Because the leadership team looked to the future, we were able to focus on where we could be most effective." The soldiers trained together with a patrol company of special forces: daily running, takmad, shooting. But at the same time we were engaged in technological tasks - installing direction finders, learning how to intercept unprotected radios.