UAVs in Russian Armed Forces: News #2

thegopnik wrote:if anyone has their website link let me know.

Begome wrote:Don't know if this has been posted before but here's a video showing Kronshtadt testing prototypes of their Fregat UAV, which is then tied to a known simulation about a similar, larger UAV being used on Russia's future UDK Ivan Rogov...the tests may be from 2015, however, and though the video has the Kronshtadt logo and clearly shows them testing stuff I'm not sure that this is an official Kronshtadt video, so speculate with care

George1 wrote:The first Orion complex transferred to the troops. Two control cars and three drones.




On the part of bmpd, we recall that the first serial sample of the medium-range unmanned aviation complex with medium-altitude and long-duration Orion unmanned aerial vehicles produced by the Kronstadt Group was transferred to the Russian Ministry of Defense for trial operation in April 2020. The complex includes a command post and three Orion vehicles.

In August 2020, the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Kronstadt Group signed the first serial contract for the supply of Orion long-duration unmanned aerial vehicles. At the same time, Nikolai Dolzhenkov, the general designer of the Kronstadt Group, said that by the end of 2020, the Orion UAV should receive the letter O1.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4170964.html

Isos wrote:...In less than 6 months we will see them in Syria IMO.

PapaDragon wrote:

Isos wrote:...In less than 6 months we will see them in Syria IMO.

Orions have been used in Syria since last year as part of trial phase

Unless you mean these 3 specifically?

Isos wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:

Isos wrote:...In less than 6 months we will see them in Syria IMO.

Orions have been used in Syria since last year as part of trial phase

Unless you mean these 3 specifically?

I mean in official use with weapons. Not tests.

A drone charged with a laser from space was developed in Russia


A new type of unmanned aerial vehicles that can be charged during flight with a space laser is patented in Russia. The development belongs to the specialists of the Energia rocket and space corporation.

The description of the invention for the patent is published on the website of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property. "The size and capacity of batteries is now one of the most problematic factors in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles for vertical takeoff and landing," the document says.

Scientists are trying to solve this problem in two ways. The first is by increasing the energy and mass characteristics of power supplies. And the second - with the help of a different power supply path "using a wireless power transmission system based on laser installations with a wavelength of 0.5 to 10 microns." The laser beam can be converted into electricity using photoelectric converters.

- The technical result of the invention is the combination in the design of the quadcopter, in addition to the functions of an omnidirectional receiver-converter of the electromagnetic energy of a laser beam into electricity and a passive marker of a search, tracking and guidance system (PSN), as well as the functions of a power structure and a thermal one, which makes it possible to perform a constructive (power) and thermal linking of three mutually perpendicular honeycomb circular panels that make up its body into a single heating network, - specified in the description. The authors explain the essence of the invention by drawings.

Unlike vehicles using solar converters, the development can fly both during the day and at night. Its operation is most effective in those cases when the situation does not require high flight speeds, but a longer hovering time over the object under study. The power source can be located not only in space, but also on the surface of the earth.

https://rg.ru/2020/10/26/zariazhaiushchijsia-lazerom-iz-kosmosa-bespilotnik-razrabotali-v-rossii.html

Isos wrote:There is only russian subtitles for me .

miketheterrible wrote:

Isos wrote:There is only russian subtitles for me .

Are you on a desktop or using mobile?  I find mobile doesn't work so good but when on desktop, after you enable the subtitles, it there will be one saying russian and if you click it, you can select which language you want.