Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
MILEX 2019: Belarus Introduces New UAS and EW Jammers
Belarus is expanding its defense industry capabilities, introducing a new drone and a counter-UAS jammer.
Belarus officials inspect the Grach UAS, which can carry light weapons. (Photo: Milex/Belexpo)
Belarus officials inspect the Grach UAS, which can carry light weapons. (Photo: Milex/Belexpo)

At the MILEX 2019 defense industry exhibition held in Minsk from May 15 to 18, Belarus introduced the Grach, a light multi-purpose unmanned aircraft system (UAS). It is a multicopter capable of conducting reconnaissance missions with sensors or small-scale armed attacks against troops and other soft-skinned targets with free-fall ordnance.

With a payload capacity of less than 10 pounds, the UAS can drop four hand grenades, a small incendiary bomb, or a PTAB-2.5 anti-tank bomb. It can approach as near as 20 meters (60 feet) to its target before its motor becomes audible, claims the manufacturer-developer, KB Radar Design Bureau.