So is this the work of electronic warfare from the ukranian army or rather a russian fail due to their subpar engineering and shitty ways?
yes
It could have been on purpose, to create a confusing flight path and circumvent AA, but who knows.
This was the fourth night in a row when Russian "shahids" flew into Belarus en masse and for the first time in these days the Belarusian Air Force's duty aircraft was raised. The fighter from Baranovichi took off at about 07:40 in the morning and returned to the base at 08:45.
What's the navigation system on those UAVs?
kagis
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/25204
The Shahed “kamikaze drone,” known also by its Russian nomenclature as the Geran-2, is more properly classified as a one-way attack unmanned aerial vehicle (OWA UAV).
The original Shaheds employed inertial navigation blocks, manufactured in Canada, that relied on commercially available GPS systems for navigation with a limited CEP accuracy of around 10 to 15 meters. The Russian variants use the “Komet” navigation system, which incorporates GLONASS, Russia’s version of GPS for guidance. This is almost the only component of Russian production in these drones.
Sounds like that system is vulnerable to some form of electronic attack.
EDIT: Unless the idea is that it's intentional, to try to come from an unexpected direction. If those tracks in the image represent the actual tracks, though, I'm not sure how useful they are. Doesn't look very effective.
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