In Russia, important defense, industrial, and even business centers are being equipped with Serp C-UAS systems.

Rostec Corporation said that over the past year, Roselektronika had delivered more than 100 Serp C-UAS systems to customers.

The equipment is deployed at Russian fuel and energy facilities and defense companies.

Serp C-UAS systems, developed by the Vector enterprise of the Roselektronika holding, suppress the control channels of drones.

The systems also disrupt the operation of the onboard receiver of global navigation satellite systems.

As a result, the UAV operator loses the ability to control the flight, and the drone itself does not receive information about its position in space and cannot perform the flight task autonomously.

“They protect the territory from drones within a radius of up to 5 km and are able to effectively fight a swarm of drones,” the developers say.

The system’s field of view is divided into sectors with a 90-degree angle and independent operation. It permits to disable one of the sectors and to use it for monitoring proper drones.

Today, anti-drone protection is becoming an integral part of the security system for critical infrastructure facilities worldwide, and the C-UAS systems market is growing rapidly.

“We are currently implementing a number of large projects to install our equipment in industrial plants and large business centers,” said Vector’s CEO.

Recently, the company’s engineers have expanded the capabilities of the Serp family by adding a drone detection function. The modernized Serp-VS5D system can not only suppress UAVs but also detect them using the detector installed on it.

The system is small and mobile. At the end of 2023, it was tested at one of Russia’s energy infrastructure facilities.