Forbes: Ukrainian Development Deprives Russians Of Main Trump At Frontline
19- 18.03.2025, 22:04
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The situation has been changed by a team of 10 people.
A year ago, enemy planes were dropping up to 100 gliding bombs a day. Smart bombs with satellite control and retractable wings were considered a ‘miracle weapon’ by the Kremlin, and the AFU had no countermeasures.
As of 2025, however, the situation has changed dramatically. The AFU not only have countermeasures, but they are also extremely effective, Forbes reports.
The enemy uses gliding bombs to attack regional centres, such as Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia. According to Narek Kazarian, whose 10-member Night Watch team created the Lima jammer, now the Russian Federation will not be able to bomb Ukrainian cities so easily with aerial bombs.
Lima is not a traditional jammer that simply emits radio noise towards the enemy. ‘We use digital jamming,’ Kazarian explained. It's ‘a combination of jamming, deception and information cyberattack on the navigation receiver.’
In 2024, Putin's army not only bombed Ukrainian cities, but also dropped aerial bombs on AFU positions along the front line. Such tactics of the enemy allowed to capture Avdiivka, and after that very quickly advanced towards Pokrovsk.
In February, it became known that the ‘golden era’ of smart bomds had come to an end. According to Kazarian, the Lima jammer was a factor in reducing gliding bombing in certain areas. Other jammers developed by other companies may be responsible for the decline in Russian raids in other parts of Ukraine, including Pokrovsk.
Russian aerial bombs have another big problem: communication with a satellite. If it is not there, the bomb often changes its course and harmlessly explodes in some field. There are many cases when the aerial bombs did not reach their target and fell directly on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Now, to hit one target, the enemy will have to drop not just one bomb, but at least 8, and sometimes even all 16. On the one hand, such bombs are relatively cheap - $25,000 per unit, but it costs a lot to raise the Su planes in the sky, with the help of which the enemy strikes. To strike a single target, the enemy will have to use four planes at once, instead of one, as it was before.
It is also worth noting that Night Watch initially developed jammers for kamikaze drones, and then tested them on aerial bombs.
Obviously, the occupiers also jam, but Russian jamming doesn't have the same impact as Ukrainian jamming. A lot of Russian jamming is poorly made and ineffective. Similarly, Russian industry has not yet been able to develop countermeasures against Ukrainian countermeasures against Russian munitions.
Ukrainian forces have removed equipment from some modified drones. Night Watch studied the wreckage and then finalised the Lima jammer and the jammer deployment plan, Kazarian said. ‘A new type of antenna was studied, mathematically analysed and a new calculation of the location of the radar systems on the ground was made,’ Kazarian concluded.
For all its effectiveness, Lima does not cover the entire front line, let alone cover all of Ukraine. It would require many more systems. If the Ukrainian government decides to deploy jammers more widely, Night Watch can produce 300 systems a month, Kazarian said.
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