Key Factors
- Rostec is advertising and marketing Bizon, an export model of its Zubr counter-drone system, to potential clients in Egypt.
- The system makes use of 7.62mm PKT machine weapons and its personal radar to detect and interact small, low-flying drones, with the home Zubr model already fielded to Russian items.
Russia’s state protection conglomerate Rostec is advertising and marketing an export model of its Zubr short-range counter-drone system, referred to as Bizon, to potential clients in Egypt, in line with an announcement from the corporate’s Excessive Precision Programs holding.
The system, designated TKB-1167 and developed by Excessive Precision Programs, is armed with 7.62mm PKT machine weapons and designed to interact small, low-flying aerial targets that Rostec stated are troublesome for conventional air protection methods to intercept. Based on the corporate, the system detects and tracks drones independently utilizing its personal radar, then fingers off focusing on information to the machine gun mounts, leaving the human operator to make the ultimate resolution to fireplace.
“It will be significant that the event of our Excessive Precision Programs is already on fight obligation and efficiently participating actual targets, demonstrating a excessive velocity of response to the looks of aerial threats,” stated Bekhan Ozdoev, industrial director of Rostec’s weapons cluster and a member of the Bureau of the Union of Machine Builders of Russia. “In actual fact, the TKB-1167 is the final line of protection, coming into play when the depend is measured in seconds. The system can be utilized each independently and as a component of a unified counter-drone protection structure, constructing layered air protection for amenities.”
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Ozdoev stated the system also can combine with exterior detection belongings, receiving data from different sensors and supplementing that information with its personal image of the airspace, an method Rostec has more and more emphasised as drone threats to fastened infrastructure have grown extra frequent.
The home model of the system, referred to as Zubr, has already been delivered to Russian navy items, The Defence Weblog reported in January. Based on Rostec’s earlier assertion on that supply, the Zubr consists of 4 fight modules, a centralized command submit and a radar, forming a self-contained air protection unit supposed to guard crucial infrastructure from drones and loitering munitions. Rostec described Zubr as a point-defense asset relatively than a strategic interceptor, constructed to cowl the quick space round high-value websites relatively than broader airspace, and didn’t disclose particular places or unit assignments for the methods already fielded.
Excessive Precision Programs, established in 2009 as a Rostec holding firm, produces a variety of Russia’s front-line weapons, together with the Iskander-M ballistic missile system, the Pantsir-S air protection complicated, the Kornet anti-tank missile and the BMP-3 infantry combating automobile. The holding reported income of roughly $1.98 billion as of 2016, the latest figures publicly accessible, and has confronted in depth worldwide sanctions tied to weapons utilized in Russia’s navy campaigns in Syria and Ukraine.
Egypt has been a recurring focus of Russian arms advertising and marketing efforts. Rosoboronexport, Rostec’s export arm, organized Russia’s nationwide pavilion on the Egypt Defence Expo in December 2025, an occasion the 2 international locations marked because the seventieth anniversary of Russian-Egyptian military-technical cooperation. Egypt has beforehand acquired Russian counter-drone expertise: in 2023, Rosoboronexport signed an settlement at that yr’s EDEX exhibition to provide a separate Russian counter-drone system, referred to as Zashchita, inside Egypt, describing that deal on the time as falling below civilian relatively than navy cooperation. Rosoboronexport has stated its total military-technical cooperation spans greater than 100 international locations, with the company dealing with greater than 85 p.c of Russia’s arms and navy gear exports.
