Navigation · Anti-jam GNSS (CRPA)

Kometa-M12

Also recorded as Comet-M12 and Комета-М12

The twelve-element member of VNIIR-Progress's Kometa family: an anti-jam satellite navigation unit whose antenna array steers its blind spots towards a jammer. HUR lists it in the Geran-5.

Maker: VNIIR-Progress JSC^[1]
Country: Russia
Found in: 2 weapons, 1 recovered unit on record
Photos: 2

Photo: HUR War & Sanctions

The Kometa-M12 is the twelve-element model of VNIIR-Progress’s Kometa anti-jam navigation family. HUR War & Sanctions lists it in the Geran-5, and reports on HUR’s Geran-3 release by Euromaidan Press and heise online name it in the Geran-3 too.

heise notes that even this Russian unit contains foreign chips, among them a programmable logic device from Intel/Altera. A heat-resistant version for the Iskander-M, the Kometa-M12R-VT, was reported by Militarnyi in July 2026.

Specifications

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

Antenna elements	12 Confirmed^[2]
Antenna type	Controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA) Claimed^[3]
Foreign chips inside	Includes a PLD chip from Intel/Altera Claimed^[3]

How it is marked

Kometa-M12^[1]

Used in

Geran family

Geran-3 reported
Satellite navigation (CRPA) — Kometa-M12 jam-resistant module with a 12-element adaptive antenna array; HUR singles it out as the most notable Russian-made part^[2]
Geran-5 1 recovered unit
Records: gur-part-5137 ↗
Satellite navigation (anti-jam) — 12-element CRP antenna; involved companies Pantes LLC, PSB Technologies LLC, Aviv Group LLC^[1]

Related parts

Variant of: Kometa Official claim^[1]

Sources

HUR War & Sanctions war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/components/part/5137
Euromaidan Press euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/16/russias-new-attack-drone-full-of-american-europea …
heise online heise.de/en/news/Russian-jet-kamikaze-drone-with-Raspberry-Pi-4-10669801.html

Last checked 2026-10-19.

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