Communications · Cellular modem / tracker

Borscht Tracker V3

Also recorded as Borscht v3, Борщ v3 and Tracker V3

A telemetry tracker that reports the drone's position over mobile networks, built from a Raspberry Pi single-board computer and 3G/LTE modems. HUR has found it in the Geran-2, Geran-4 and Geran-5.

Found in: 3 weapons, 3 recovered units on record
Photos: 4

Photos: HUR War & Sanctions · HUR (Defence Intelligence of Ukraine)

“Borscht” is HUR’s name for the telemetry tracker in Geran drones: a Raspberry Pi single-board computer with 3G/LTE modems that reports the drone’s position over mobile networks. HUR War & Sanctions has recorded the third version in the Geran-2, Geran-4 and Geran-5.

Its photos show the Raspberry Pi, two USB modems with their SIM slots and a hand-wired interface board. Radio Svoboda’s Schemes found SIM cards from Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian and EU carriers in the modem slots of recovered Gerans.

Specifications

Each figure names its source. A maker's figure is the maker's claim; nothing here was measured by us.

Built from	3G/LTE modems and a Raspberry Pi microcomputer Official claim^[2]

How it is marked

Borscht v3 AL^[1]
Tracker V3^[2]

Used in

Geran family

Geran-2 1 recovered unit
Records: gur-part-5084 ↗
Geran-4 1 recovered unit
Records: gur-part-5615 ↗
Telemetry tracker — Borscht Tracker V3 with Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (UK) and FTDI FT232RNL USB-UART^[4]
Geran-5 1 recovered unit
Records: gur-part-5138 ↗
Telemetry tracker — With external 3G/LTE antennas^[2]

Related parts

Contains: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Confirmed^[3]

Sources

HUR War & Sanctions war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/components/part/5084
HUR War & Sanctions war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/components/part/5138
HUR War & Sanctions war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/components/6792
HUR War & Sanctions war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/page-geran-4

Last checked 2026-10-19.