Russia evaluates Ukraine’s Plastun-RP3000 signals intelligence system
The Russian military gave an assessment of the Plastun-RP3000 signals intelligence system, which was developed by the Ukrainian company Infozahyst. The video was published by Russian propaganda media. In the published material, the Russian military regrets that the signals intelligence station is bearing the location of their communication equipment, which leads to losses of their personnel and command of units.
Experts state that the Ukrainian Plastun SIGINT system is finding all the signals from their radio, and they cannot do anything about it at the moment. They also criticized Chinese civilian radio systems that are already common in the Russian army, as well as Azart specialized military radios, for their high observability in the radio frequency spectrum and for their inability to conduct covert communications.
Nevertheless, according to a Russian specialist, such a SIGINT system can allegedly be bypassed with the help of Russian radio stations applying the new communication standard "Wave Network." The latter provides a decentralized principle of transferring data not directly from source to receiver but through several of the closest links. Yaroslav Kalinin, Director of Infozahyst, made a comment at Militarnyi's request about the "Wave Network" standards, which the Russians are actively discussing on the video. "The electromagnetic signal used in the "Wave Network" system is very weak, and it is really not easy to capture.
But the question of location depends not only on its output power and type. Russian propaganda previously stated our direction finder was worthless, and that signals from a wide-striped FHSS would be a problem for it. But time puts everything in place," Kalinin said.
Plastun-RP3000 SIGINT system
Plastun-RP3000 is a signal intelligence system developed by the Ukrainian company Infozahyst.
It is designed to detect the location of enemy communication systems, automated high-speed radio monitoring, processing, and recording intercepted data. Such a system successfully implements the detection of radio networks and operating frequencies of tactical (VHF), operational-tactical (SW) links, communication means, and data transmission of the small SR groups. It is able to determine the location of communication stations with FHSS (main military communication means) and the coordinates of the EW systems.
Plastun-RP3000 is also able to detect digital control and information transmission channels, the location of aircraft and UAVs, ways of transmitting counter-battery data and implement synchronous direction finding and demodulation of frequency-modulated signals.
The process of direction finding in radio communication means using the Plastun station
The average systematic error in finding a radio source in the range of 25-90 MHz is 1.2?, and in the range of 90-525 MHz - 0.8?.
The SIGINT station is mobile; it weighs 39 kilograms, able to work in autonomous mode for up to 8 hours.
The system does not need much space to deploy, and the process itself takes no more than 20 minutes.