The electronic device was developed in Kiev and was baptized from Lima
Ukrainian soldiers are putting in the theater of war a new electronic device capable of transforming the deadly russian plane bombs accurately or not intelligently. Kiev’s new weapon causes this type of Russian weaponry to fail the target for dozens of meters.
The Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Post quotes an article published by the Military Defense and Security Journal that suddenly gives russian planning bombs have begun to fail the targets, which most likely indicates that Ukraine has developed a new ‘jamming’ system – capable of blocking communications between plane and satellites – and that it is already being used on the ground.
Militar cites several comments made by Nico Lange, senior member of the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the European Policy Analysis Center (Cepa) to The Economist magazine, in which she defines the Lima system as the technical counterattack developed by Ukraine to Russian bombs thrown by a “unified landslide and correction module” – known as UPMK.
This baptized accessory as UPMK began to be used by the Moscovite troops in the spring of 2023, after at the beginning of the War the Russian Air Force have suffered heavy losses when trying to make proximity air attacks against Ukrainian air defense networks strongly armed with NATO’s standard portable anti -forahae, such as Grom, Polaco Manufacture, and Starstreak, of British manufacture, and supported by weapons mounted on even more capable vehicles, such as Germany’s Iris-T SLM and Norway Nasms. UPMK allows you to considerably raise the success rate of Russian planning pumps, because after the module is launched opens the thick wings and controls the ailerons to self -pine the ammunition to the target.
HOW THE LIMA SYSTEM WORKS
According to Nico Lange, the Lima system transmits corrupted orientation data and simultaneously tries to block sensors within the UPMK accessories present in Russian pumps. This makes it more complicated for the pump processor to calculate its own location and flight trajectory. And this is the big difference to previous blockers: instead of trying to block the GPS signal, it sends data so that a bomb that had a target city to reach, for example, the neighboring city and the processor believed it had reached the intended destination.
In short, the longer the planning pump is in the air, the more errors will be introduced into the UPMK navigation calculation system by the Lima transmitter, making the explosive Russian less and less accurate.
The Israeli Military Observer Yigal Levin also referred to the Lima system this week, classifying him as “one of the recent successes.” “The blocker lime disoriest the orientation system of Russian plane bombs,” he summarized.
The popular pro-Russian Military Information Platform, DVA Mayora, confirmed the presence of the Lima system on the battlefield to its more than 600,000 subscribers: “The system uses intelligent AI-enhanced interference algorithms. Reports say this significantly reduced the frequency of planning (Russian) bombs in combat conditions, indicating their high effectiveness.”
In Europe, Bild magazine identified the Ukrainian company Night Watch as the Lima manufacturer. The German magazine explains that the system explores safety failures in the software, called Kometa-M, which manages pump precision orientation systems. Pumps that lose contact with the navigation system through the Glonass satellite resort to inertia orientation, but the Lima system tries to interfere with the orientation system by introducing fake flight data into the onboard computer, according to the same report.
In March, the Ukrainian news agency Unian already realized the effectiveness of the Night Watch system.
“Ukrainians have managed to create an electronic war system that made russian pumps extremely inaccurate and therefore ineffective, despite their great power,” unial wrote in an analysis of March 23. “After the installation of the electronic war system, the accuracy of bombing began to decrease and then realizing the ineffectiveness of this method of destruction and the impossibility of achieving the established goal, the enemy failed to bombard the rear facilities,” he could read.
In the first three months of 2025, the Russian Air Force launched a total of 10,577 planting bombs against Ukrainian targets, about a quarter of more than 40,000 bombs that Kremlin forces launched in combat since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
