Volna Kupol Garant
Volna Kupol Garant ("Wave Dome Guarantor") is Russia's trailer-mounted electronic-warfare complex built to jam Starlink's Ku-band uplink, denying Ukraine's Starlink-guided strike drones their control link across a roughly 20-square-kilometer bubble.
Volna Kupol Garant comprises six trailers carrying two antennas each, according to ArmyInform; Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov describes its operating mechanism as interference directed toward Starlink satellites in the 14–14.5 GHz uplink band in his technical account.
Overview
Volna Kupol Garant interferes with Starlink connectivity locally, Ukrainian drone crews told Reuters in its July 8, 2026 report. A crew commander with the callsign “Dyryhent” said Starlink-equipped drones flew without problems after a jammer was struck; Reuters said it could not independently verify Russia’s counter-strike tactics. Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov estimated coverage at 15–25 km² per complex in his September 2 post.
The system had entered series production after prototypes and modifications, an unnamed Russian defense-industry source told TASS on August 28; the report disclosed no production rate, batch size or delivery date. Approximately ten complexes had been detected by July 8, Beskrestnov told Reuters; that figure describes detections and does not establish total production or surviving inventory.
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