The Russian Army’s Best Long-Range Radio Vehicles Bounce Signals Off The Troposphere. Somehow, Ukrainian Commandos Hunted One Down.

With a little discipline, a radio-relay crew could obscure its location. By limiting the duration of its broadcasts, and frequently changing position, the crew of an R-416GM might thwart Ukrainian efforts to trace the vehicle’s coordinates. But it’s possible Russian signal troops lack that discipline. In a March 2022 study for the Royal United Services Institute in London, analysts Sam Cranny-Evans and Thomas Withington noted “the apparently lax communications discipline sources have said some Russian units have exhibited.”