Kyiv startup CODE380 built the D-Vision SDR, a 10-ounce pocket receiver that intercepts unscrambled live video from Russian drones.
Operating on frequencies used by newer Molniya models, it highlights ongoing radio frequency monitoring challenges in modern hardware design.
The device, called D·Vision SDR, captures images transmitted by Russian drones in the air without any encryption. This way, units can see where a drone is headed and what its target is before it can strike.
Features and function
The device weighs about 300 grams, less than half the weight of other Ukrainian models. The device listens to the radio frequencies that the newest Russian Molniya drones began using for video since last June.
Sergei Beskrestnov, a radio communications expert who advises the Ukrainian presidency, said that most detectors either do not see these frequencies or have great difficulty picking them up.
The limitations and the future
The same consultant warned that in the future Russian drones may switch to digital video, which would "blind" receivers like this one and they would stop working.
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At the same time, there are reports that some of the Molniya drones are guided autonomously with the help of artificial intelligence chips and do not transmit signals at all.
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