Fighting Drone Distrust: Drone Disabling Backpack

Imagine the following story: You are a Ukrainian medic who is running across a field with a group to save a wounded tank crew from the battlefield. An anti-tank missile hit the tank previously, and there are only three surviving crew members. As you are running to go save them, you see two drones circling above you in the sky. They fly with a vulture-like presence. All of a sudden, one of the drones makes a nose dive straight toward you. You see an explosive strapped to the drone, and you run as fast as you can to evade it. As it gets closer, it crashes to the ground with a large thud. However, you’re still alive. This is the reality for some Ukrianian soldiers with the invention of the KVERTUS AD COUNTER FPV BACKPACK.

With the advancement of the Russian military involving kamikaze drones to target Ukrainian soldiers and medics (and civilians at this point too), drone warfare is only becoming more and more severe in the region. The Ukrianian military has been utilizing FPV drones for both war and humanitarian purposes. The Russian military shortly after realized the potential of these drones and started to mirror Ukraine’s use of kamikaze drones, which had been largely difficult for Ukrainian soldiers to operate on the ground. But a solution was found when the Ukrainian company KVERTUS invented a backpack that could essentially fight off these drones. From what it looks like at first glance, it looks like a school backpack, but with sticks coming out the top. However, it is much more than just a school backpack, as it is now essentially an invisible shield that protects whoever is wearing it. At the request of the Ukrainian military, the company essentially came up with a backpack that blocks frequencies in the 850–940 MHz range. And we know that these kamikaze drones use the 850–940 MHz frequency range to operate. The backpack costs about 2,713 US dollars and has a blocking radius of 150 meters away from the backpack, given the condition that the UAV operator of the kamikaze drone is about 1500 meters away. The blocking radius really does depend on the terrain and how far the operator is from their drone, as the strength of the connection to a drone will be much stronger if they are closer. It is, in turn, harder to block a stronger connection. It has a battery life of 120 minutes. The concept behind the workings of the backpack is that it essentially sends out a large concentration of electromagnetic noise that disrupts the connection between the UAV operator and the UAV. This electromagnetic noise comes out in waves that essentially disrupt the frequency waves that are interacting with the drone. The connection gets severed, and the drone dissapears to the operator. Jamming technologies are all too common, but what makes this different is that this is mobile jamming technology for human use and it will save many Ukrainian soldiers as they continue defending their country.