Borisoglebsk-2

Russia's workhorse tactical electronic-warfare complex — the RB-301B Borisoglebsk-2 — is a group of up to nine tracked MT-LB vehicles that fuse four different jamming-station types under a single control point. It detects, direction-finds and suppresses the enemy's radio, cellular, satellite-communications and satellite-navigation links across a wide band, from one operator's console. Fielded across the Ukraine front, it is both a serious problem for Ukrainian drones and communications and a prized target — one was captured in 2022, and FPV drones have hunted them ever since.

Overview

Borisoglebsk-2 is a multifunctional, vehicle-mounted tactical EW system designed to blind, confuse and demoralize an enemy by attacking its use of the electromagnetic spectrum. Per the US Army's ODIN/Worldwide Equipment Guide and Wikipedia, it performs automated radio reconnaissance, electronic intelligence, direction-finding and broadband jamming of enemy command-and-control, communications and navigation systems. Militarnyi notes it "merges four types of jamming stations into a single system with a single control console," forcing the operator to make decisions in seconds. It targets HF/VHF radio, GSM cellular, satellite-phone links (Inmarsat/Iridium) and GPS — the connective tissue of a modern force — which is why it has become one of Russia's most consequential, and most hunted, EW assets in Ukraine.

Development

Borisoglebsk-2 was developed by NPO Sozvezdie — the Voronezh C2/EW house also behind the Strelets and ESU-TZ programs — over roughly six years, from 2004 to 2010, per Wikipedia. It was not immediately mass-produced; fielding followed in stages, and the system is generally counted as in service from around 2014, with deliveries to military districts continuing later in the 2010s. It is built on the amphibious MT-LB / MT-LBu tracked chassis for cross-country mobility alongside mechanized forces. The complete complex, per Defense Express and Military Review, comprises an R-300KMV (R-330KMV) control point and individual jamming/reconnaissance vehicles — the R-378BMV, R-330BMV, R-934BMV and R-325UMV — with the full set reported at nine machines.

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