Babai

Babai is a Ukrainian brand created in 2022 by a team of volunteer engineers, developing electronic-warfare and electronic-intelligence systems alongside a line of FPV-video-signal detectors. The name references the Slavic bogeyman, in keeping with the dark-humour branding common in Ukraine’s grassroots defence-technology scene.

Its detector line is built around Vydun, sold as Vydun, Vydun PRO and the newer Vydun 7.5. The 7.5 is the standout: it scans four bands at once — 910–2200, 2200–4040, 4867–6100 and 6000–7500 MHz — and not only flags a hostile drone but pulls and displays its analog video feed in real time at up to about 4 km, with 360-degree coverage and scan cycles of three to twenty seconds. The unit runs six to eight hours on a 10,000 mAh battery and shows the intercepted picture on a 4.3-inch screen, though it cannot yet read LoRa signals. The separate PES detector is a broadband portable unit covering 150–6000 MHz that catches FPV, DJI and Autel drones out to roughly two kilometres.

On the active side, Babai builds an automatic jammer managed through a web interface: operators connect over Wi-Fi or Ethernet to toggle individual antennas, run a built-in spectrum analyser across 150–6000 MHz and let the system trigger suppression on its own. It ships in trench and vehicle-mounted variants and, the team says, took a year to move from idea to serial production.

Babai is fielded by combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — reporting names the 10th Mountain Assault “Edelweiss,” the 59th, 67th, 150th and 17th brigades — with the maker citing around eight brigades in total, and the team has sought partners to scale output. It occupies the same Ukrainian counter-FPV detector niche as BlueBird Tech and Stinex , competing on frequency coverage and rapid iteration. No verified headquarters city could be confirmed.