Russia is giving its drones bigger antennas to beat Ukrainian jamming

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia is fitting drones with larger jam-resistant antennas , making it harder for Ukrainian forces to use electronic countermeasures to scramble their navigation signals, Ukrainian officials said. Russia’s Kometa navigation modules, produced by the company VNIIR-Progress, use arrays of small receiving elements called patch antennas to keep satellite navigation working through jamming. They have been found on Geran drones, glide-bomb kits, Iskander-M and Kinzhal missiles and the new Filin cruise missile, according to a database of Russian weapons run by Ukraine’s military…