Russia is offering its “Bizon” counter-drone system to Egypt, following Cairo’s report of an unprecedented drone strike at its Damietta Port since the outbreak of the Iran-Israel-US conflict.
The Bizon was developed by state-owned defense company Rostec’s segment, High-Precision Systems.
The TKB-1167 Bizon is an export version of the Russian army’s Zubr short-range air defense system, which autonomously tracks drones and engages them under orders from a human operator.
However, Rostec did not disclose any details of their marketing proposal, including the system’s cost or implementation timeline.
Bizon Anti-Drone System
Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of Rostec’s Armaments Cluster and a member of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia, described the Bizon as a “last line of defense.”
The Bizon independently detects and tracks small and low-flying aerial targets, and engages them with 7.62 mm PKT machine guns.
Like the Zubr, the system reserves the final engagement decision to the human operator.
It can interact with external detection systems, as well as be used independently or as part of a unified counter-drone defense architecture.
According to Ozdoev, the Bizon is “already on combat duty and successfully engaging real targets, demonstrating a high reaction speed to the emergence of aerial threats.”