Concept program: at NAIS-2025 presented technologies to combat enemy UAVs
Computer vision, systems of interaction between drones and external control technologies under radio interference conditions were the main novelties of the last day of the NAIS-2025 civil aviation infrastructure exhibition. The presented developments will make it possible to create a unified drone control network and secure objects from intruders, participants believe. The developments shown will make it possible to release interceptor drones into the sky to neutralize enemy aircraft-type UAVs. On how unmanned aviation will be developed - read in the material "Izvestia".
How they propose to fight enemy drones
TheNAIS-2025 national exhibition of civil aviation infrastructure has ended in Moscow; it has become the largest in its 12-year history. On the last day of the event, experts discussed technologies that allow UAVs and manned aircraft to fly in a single space.
The unmanned aviation industry is still in its infancy, but in a few years it will force the entire civil aviation to transform, and it is necessary to prepare for it - this was the message of the session "Technologies to ensure flight safety in a single airspace".
- We encounter inconsistency in the actions of various services," said Sergey Nesterov, Director of the LEMZ Design Bureau of the Almaz Research and Production Association. - For example, in St. Petersburg, during the authorized flight of a drone working in the interests of the city authorities, one of the law enforcement agencies considered that the UAV posed a threat and neutralized it. The drone did not harm anyone when it landed.
But such cases are not rare, and it is necessary to establish cooperation, which should be facilitated by means of identification, namely transponders for UAVs, he said. With their help, aviation authorities will be able to ensure interaction between aircraft operators and law enforcement agencies and track in real time all legal UAVs in the air.
The panelists noted that it is not enough to identify the vehicles, the automation must also be taught to interact with each other to minimize their control from the ground.
- The problem with drones is that they sometimes lose contact with the ground without any radio-electronic interference," said Gleb Babintsev, general director of the AERONEXT association. - Therefore, aviation accidents are not excluded.
During the experiments of the association members it turned out that the safest drones are those that are able to calculate each other's trajectories and evade collision without commands from the ground control station. This is facilitated by identification systems, advanced control modules, and computer vision. Therefore, the industry standards should include requirements for inclusion of such developments in the onboard equipment, Gleb Babintsev noted.
Vladimir Turov, head of the Antidrone division of Kaspersky Lab, also spoke at the session about the need to build a unified information system for airspace monitoring. According to him, the unified information resource will ensure communication between airfield services, law enforcement officers and other controlling bodies to make the right decisions.
In addition, the new software will make it possible to create interceptor drones, which will be aimed at enemy UAVs of airplane type. This will secure flight zones from unnecessary impact of electronic warfare systems (REB) and will allow neutralizing UAVs point-by-point, without illuminating civil aviation equipment, the expert believes.
Thecreation of a unified control system is also necessary for building cargo delivery networks using UAVs, the panelists said.
Cargo transportation by UAVs
UAVsin 2024 made 148 thousand flights, since 2021 the intensity of their use has increased by more than 60%, said Alexander Redkozubov, deputy head of the Main Center of the EU Center for Air Traffic Control of the State Corporation for Air Traffic Organization in the Russian Federation. Experts interviewed by Izvestia believe that the figure of 250-300 thousand flights per year will be overcome by 2030. However, some of them note that with the growing use of UAVs the risks of aviation accidents also increase.
- There is a huge number of artisanal manufacturers on the market, who create products at their own risk from purchased elements," said Dmitry Tretyakov, general director of Aurora-BAS. - A variety of aircrafts are released on the market without proper systematization, and sometimes consumers have to choose the best among the bad.
According to him, there is a need for state regulation of the industry, state acceptance of products to ensure quality and uniform production standards. The aviation authorities need the same approaches to the ultra-small aviation as to the large one.
At the same time, Alexander Redkozubov noted that in 2024 the number of violations with drones used in the airspace has decreased.
- We see that users of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are starting to read the regulatory framework and comply with the laws," he said.
There are now several regions in Russia where aviation drone technology is being actively promoted. In particular, on Sakhalin, UAVs are used for both civil and military purposes. They help to find fire hotspots, unauthorized dumps, and deliver small cargoes.
- We are implementing a program to create non-capital, mobile landing sites for UAVs in Arctic conditions," said Oleg Klochkov, head of the project office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. - A mobile landing site is a hangar transported on two all-terrain vehicles with a control and communication module, an antenna, and a canvas for a runway.
Such a network will make it possible to quickly deliver small cargoes to remote areas of the North, for which it is unprofitable to use helicopters on short notice. These are, for example, medicines and essential foodstuffs, he noted. At the same time, he said, cargo transportation by UAVs is still unprofitable due to underdeveloped infrastructure.
- Unmanned aerial systems will be subsidized for five years. Then everything will change," he believes.
The exhibitors hope to create not only fully autonomous aircraft, but also ground robotic loading stations that would allow UAVs to be used around the clock without human intervention.
This year, more than 140 companies from Russia, Belarus, China and Iran presented their products at NAIS. One of the main events was the presentation of the PD-8 turbofan engine for import-substituted SJ-100 airliners.
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