A Jammer Hackathon was held in Ukraine, where developers created electronic warfare solutions to combat drones.
The Brave1 cluster shared that the hackathon was organized in collaboration with the investment fund D3.
The event attracted over 70 participants, organized into more than 25 teams, who worked for three days to find solutions.
The participants focused on creating ways to disable or interfere with the operations of the most commonly used commercial drones by the Russians, such as the DJI Mavic 3 or Autel 4T.
Interference would occur through cyber influence, targeting control protocols and components of UAVs. Topics also included automating the detection of FPV and anonymized commercial drones, as well as determining direction and automatic tracking.
The teams that make the best progress over the next month will be eligible for an additional prize pool of $50,000.
The hackathon winners were:
- Project for controlling/transmitting video signal suppression — $20,000
- Himera team with the "FORT" reactive EW system project — $10,000
- "Pugach" team with a system for detecting and spoofing FPV video — $7,000
- Phantom Defense team with an algorithm for detecting and suppressing control and video channels of UAVs — $7,000
- SPRMT team with a decision support system for radio monitoring, positioning, and UAV countermeasures — $7,000
Currently, over 50 manufacturers in Ukraine are working on more than 100 electronic warfare (EW) and electronic intelligence (ELINT) systems.
