"The battle tactics will be changed": Russia has a new shock weapon
MOSCOW, Nov 2 — RIA Novosti, Nikolay Protopopov. High autonomy, guided missile weapons and the ability to bypass air defense — the Russian military is mastering the first multi-purpose UAVs "Orion". According to experts, these drones will significantly increase the strike capabilities of the army and bring unmanned aviation to a new level. About the pros and cons of such devices-in the material RIA Novosti.
Interference is not terrible
In the story of the NTV channel recently showed a military kit in action — two control vehicles and three drones "Orion", which, apparently, have already entered combat duty. Recall, the defense Ministry signed a contract for serial deliveries of a long-duration reconnaissance and attack UAV to the troops in August. And the first set was transferred to pilot-military operation in the spring of this year.
"Orion" can stay in the sky for up to 24 hours. Externally, it resembles the American MQ-1 Reaper — the same long and narrow wing and V-shaped tail. The UAV is designed not only for aerial reconnaissance and target designation, but also for missile and bomb strikes. On Board takes up to 200 kilograms of combat load. Specifically for it, several types of ammunition with a caliber of 25 to 100 kilograms were developed.
"Orion" belongs to the class of medium UAVs and occupies a niche between the large S-70 "Hunter" and small scouts. The powerplant — a gasoline engine of about 100 horsepower-is located in the rear of the fuselage. Due to the use of composite materials in the design, the rather impressive overall UAV weighs only about a ton. The maximum altitude is 7,5 thousand meters, and the speed is 200 kilometers per hour. The flight is controlled by a radio operator with a signal range of 250 kilometers.
The complex of aerial reconnaissance with long - duration unmanned aerial vehicles with the ability to perform reconnaissance and strike tasks "Orion" of the company "Kronshtadt" at the arms exhibition of the international military technical forum (MWTF) "Army-2020" in the military-Patriotic Park "Patriot"
The device is unique in that it can effectively operate on the battlefield even in the conditions of dense radio interference set by the enemy's electronic warfare systems. The onboard optoelectronic system detects and tracks targets in automatic mode and corrects the flight of guided missiles. Eyes and ears of the UAV — thermal imaging and television cameras, laser rangefinder and target designator. In addition, there is a place for digital video equipment and an observation radar station.
Development of the project "Orion" - a two-ton attack drone "Sirius". The flight sample, the developers say, will be ready next year. It will be equipped with a satellite communication system that allows you to control the flight from almost anywhere in the world.
Russian multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle with a long flight duration based on the ORION-e KVR"
Attack of the drones
In recent years, drones have been increasingly used in armed conflicts around the world. A fresh example is the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to military expert Alexey Leonkov, the Azerbaijani military uses UAVs quite effectively, since the NKR army has practically no modern air defense and electronic warfare systems.
"Many States that did not pay enough attention to the creation of air defense and camouflage, reap bitter fruits," said Leonkov in an interview with RIA Novosti. — The footage that Azerbaijan shows shows that the Armenian army does not have any disguise at all. If they worked on it properly, the drones would be less effective — their speed and ability to find targets in the optical range are limited."
However, the expert adds, with certain tactics, UAVs can cause significant damage even in the conditions of countering powerful deep-echeloned air defense. In particular, the US is currently developing the concept of a so-called swarm of drones, when dozens of simultaneously taking off vehicles reveal the enemy's defenses and distract the anti-aircraft missile guidance radars.
"The B-52 bomber these will fit 140 pieces, said Lenkov. — They will simulate false targets. When such a swarm flies, air defense systems are forced to react, expend ammunition, and detect their location. While the calculations are busy reloading, strike aircraft arrive and very quickly work out the received coordinates."
The Russian army operates several types of unmanned aerial vehicles — usually compact vehicles designed for reconnaissance and target designation. Now, for example, the UAV continuously patrol the area around Hamim airbase in Syria. With the commissioning of the strike "Orion", the military has another weighty argument in the air.
Women's combat crew for managing unmanned aerial vehicles
Psychological effect
As noted by the honored military pilot of Russia, major General Vladimir Popov, the most important plus of unmanned aircraft is the safety of personnel who attack the enemy, being tens of kilometers from the operation zone. In addition, UAVs dramatically increase the effectiveness of combat aircraft.
"If, for example, a small drone detects an operational-tactical missile system, it is unlikely to be able to destroy it alone with one blow," explains Popov. to disorganize the work of the crew, to put pressure on the psyche. After that, according to the coordinates transmitted from the UAV, either a second device of the same type, or a helicopter or an airplane from the forces on duty, takes off and completes the job. "
It should be admitted that, perhaps, the Americans have achieved the greatest success in using UAVs so far. They have been using drones for reconnaissance purposes since the 1960s. In Vietnam, unmanned aerial vehicles made several thousand sorties, mainly for photo reconnaissance.
In the 1990s, when the Pentagon acquired the Predator multipurpose drones, unmanned aircraft learned not only to engage in reconnaissance, but also to deliver effective precision strikes against objects on the ground. Air "predators" have operated in virtually every military conflict involving the United States - in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.
American drone MQ-1 Predator
The USSR also had a UAV development program. Back in the 1960s, Soviet designers developed several types of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. One of them - La-17R - was built on the basis of a flying target. From the ground, he started with solid propellant boosters, and a turbojet engine was turned on in the sky. The device could be in the air from 30 minutes to one and a half hours, depending on the flight altitude, accelerated to almost 900 kilometers per hour. The scout was reusable; he landed by plane or by parachute.
Another development of the Soviet defense industry is the Tu-141 "Strizh" operational-tactical reconnaissance complex. The speed is more than 1100 kilometers per hour, the range of heights is from 50 to 5000 meters. "Swifts" remained in service until the 1990s and were based primarily on the western borders of the USSR.
Soviet UAV La-17R
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The Russian's reminding everyone they pioneered swarm drone tactics, to a degree far greater of magnitude than they could even imagine!
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magnumcromagnon wrote:The Russian's reminding everyone they pioneered swarm drone tactics, to a degree far greater of magnitude than they could even imagine!
To continue this:
However, in order to build up the combat capabilities of the MFA of the Ground Forces at the tactical level in order to achieve fire (strike) parity (if possible, superiority) with the opposing enemy grouping, breakthrough solutions are needed in the development of promising weapons and their adoption. One of them is the creation of a multipurpose reconnaissance and strike network (RUS) on the basis of a tactical high-precision missile system (ATRC).
The main advantages of RUS:
- modular construction;
- container placement of tactical missiles;
- remote control of target designation and launch;
- low visibility for enemy reconnaissance means;
- a wide range of performed striking tasks;
- practical invulnerability to counter-battery weapons.
The number of ATRC subunits in the combat composition of the RUS of military formations (TVF) should ensure the most complete use of combat capabilities and wide maneuver with fire strikes in order to continuously support combined-arms formations, units and subunits, as well as minimal time indicators for preparing fire strikes.
The studies carried out show that as a result of equipping ATGMs of formations and units of the Ground Forces, the concept of a reconnaissance strike network can be implemented, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of firing missions of missile forces and artillery in tactical depth by 15-20%, and the effectiveness of destruction of individual enemy targets - to a given depth ...
Artillery reconnaissance capabilities greatly influence the implementation of the potential combat capabilities of artillery, rocket and missile formations.
An analysis of the use of artillery reconnaissance subunits in the existing organizational and staff structure shows that the fulfillment of the tasks facing the listed subdivisions of opening targets and objects in opposing enemy groupings to the full extent according to the main required indicators (timeliness, accuracy in determining coordinates) is not always ensured.
An increase in their combat capabilities can be facilitated by the introduction of military-purpose robotic systems for reconnaissance and control, typical tasks for which are observation, reconnaissance and target designation on the battlefield and in the enemy's near rear. Reconnaissance tasks outside the line of sight can be assigned to UAV complexes, which are capable of observing areas of the terrain in the enemy's position at any time of the day. At the same time, the depth of opening of enemy targets cannot be less than the depth of destruction of the serviced artillery (rocket, missile) subunit or unit.
In order to bring the capabilities of artillery reconnaissance units closer to the requirements of ensuring the effective use of missile and artillery weapons and increasing the depth of reconnaissance, increasing its efficiency, it is necessary to equip artillery reconnaissance units with UAV complexes.
https://btvtinfo.blogspot.com/2019/02/blog-post_18.html
Remember how I said Russian swarm-munition tactics were derived from Soviet AshM development? Some years back their was a brochure for the export of the Yakhont missile (domestic name is P-800 Onyx), where it showed they could (at least some version) be buried in the ground and covered in foliage and be launched, and could be used to the same degree as in the image above depicts with suicide drones. I can't seem to find the photo of Yakhont/Onyx that showed they could be buried in the Earth (upright) and launched, maybe George1 knows?
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Would be nice to put an explaination of what it is when you post russian language.
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Humongous thanks for this, I've been searching for this image forever and this is the exact image I was looking for! As the image shows it's basically been accomplished already with P-800 Onyx, all it requires is a downsizing. In fact it's probably in testing already as we speak, utilizing the wolf-pack programming for the suicide drones created by Zala Aero/Kalashnikov Concern. It should also be noted that Kalashnikov Concern is now the parent company of NPO Molniya, the design bureau behind Buran. Kalashnikov Concern is in the process of creating (likely with the help of NPO Molniya) hypersonic target drones for the Federation's SAMs. It would not be too difficult to create suicide drones out of a modification of these hypersonic target drones, and they could also incorporate the wolf-pack programming to make them far more deadlier!
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Isos wrote:Would be nice to put an explaination of what it is when you post russian language.
If you would follow the thread it would be self explanatory.
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Reconnaissance by drone: sniffer drones have appeared in the army
New UAVS specialize in detecting the enemy's air defense capabilities
https://iz.ru/1089566/anton-lavrov-roman-kretcul/razvedka-dronom-v-voiskakh-poiavilis-bespilotniki-ishcheiki
New UAVS specialize in detecting the enemy's air defense capabilities
https://iz.ru/1089566/anton-lavrov-roman-kretcul/razvedka-dronom-v-voiskakh-poiavilis-bespilotniki-ishcheiki
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The salty cocksuckers at the OSCE didn't like this!
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Source: Russia is creating a new weapon to combat enemy drones
MOSCOW, December 5 - RIA Novosti. Russian enterprises have begun developing the latest long-range radar surveillance complex based on a helicopter-type drone, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
"Since November, the development of an unmanned helicopter for a long-range radar patrol has been underway, which will track small-sized and low-speed enemy drones at low and extremely low altitudes and provide guidance to them with anti-aircraft missile systems of the military air defense," the source said.
The source noted that the work on the complex "was initiated on the basis of an analysis of the experience of recent local conflicts, which shows the increased role of attack drones." The development, according to the interlocutor, is being carried out on the basis of the existing groundwork, therefore the complex will be created as soon as possible
https://ria.ru/20201205/dron-1587772901.html
MOSCOW, December 5 - RIA Novosti. Russian enterprises have begun developing the latest long-range radar surveillance complex based on a helicopter-type drone, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
"Since November, the development of an unmanned helicopter for a long-range radar patrol has been underway, which will track small-sized and low-speed enemy drones at low and extremely low altitudes and provide guidance to them with anti-aircraft missile systems of the military air defense," the source said.
The source noted that the work on the complex "was initiated on the basis of an analysis of the experience of recent local conflicts, which shows the increased role of attack drones." The development, according to the interlocutor, is being carried out on the basis of the existing groundwork, therefore the complex will be created as soon as possible
https://ria.ru/20201205/dron-1587772901.html
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The Korsar reconnaissance and strike drone developed by the Rybinsk-based Luch Design Bureau (part of Vega Company of Ruselectronics Group within the state tech corporation Rostec) is undergoing operational evaluation, Rostec Chief Sergei Chemezov told a briefing on Monday.
https://tass.com/defense/1232275
https://tass.com/defense/1232275
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Russia tested kamikaze drones in Syria
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https://zen.yandex.ru/media/bublic82009_/ministerstvo-oborony-rossii-zakupit-bpla-koncerna-kalashnikov-5fce7386c9e0347434168b5b
Russian army will get kamikaze drones as well.
Министерство Обороны России закупает боевые ударные беспилотники разового применения, у концерна "Калашников". Закупать будут две модели, ZALA-KYB и ZALA-Ланцет.
По заявлениям представителей концерна "Калашников" эти аппараты хорошо показали себя в боевых операциях в Сирии.
The Russian Ministry of Defense purchases single-use combat shock drones from the Kalashnikov concern. Two models will be purchased, ZALA-KUB and ZALA-Lancet.
According to representatives of the Kalashnikov concern, these devices have shown themselves well in military operations in Syria.
Russian army will get kamikaze drones as well.
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Following the spirit of the times, several Russian developers will show new unmanned aerial vehicles for civil and military purposes at once, "the message says.
https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=543096&lang=RU
https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=543096&lang=RU
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dino00 wrote:Source: Russia is creating a new weapon to combat enemy drones
MOSCOW, December 5 - RIA Novosti. Russian enterprises have begun developing the latest long-range radar surveillance complex based on a helicopter-type drone, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
"Since November, the development of an unmanned helicopter for a long-range radar patrol has been underway, which will track small-sized and low-speed enemy drones at low and extremely low altitudes and provide guidance to them with anti-aircraft missile systems of the military air defense," the source said.
The source noted that the work on the complex "was initiated on the basis of an analysis of the experience of recent local conflicts, which shows the increased role of attack drones." The development, according to the interlocutor, is being carried out on the basis of the existing groundwork, therefore the complex will be created as soon as possible
https://ria.ru/20201205/dron-1587772901.html
The source noted that the work on the complex "was initiated on the basis of an analysis of the experience of recent local conflicts,[ like armenia war ] which shows the increased role of attack drones."
So not that Russia air defenses where fine ?
Why Russia needs new weapons to combat drones.. i though that those s-300 and s-400
pantirs and tors in combination with electronic warfare were good enough for russia military.
They need this and a lot more , detecting the drones is not enough ,because mass waves
of micro drones will overwhelm easily russia air defenses.. on top is not practical to use a million dollar missile to destroy a $100 dollar kamikazi drone. they need anti air artillery with long range munition. either rail guns or something else. perhaps mobile lazer weapons ,mounted on many
infantry fighting vehicles ,also far more effectice electronic warfare ,with emp weapons . and more
important , russia need to stop their obsolete trainning exercises versus nato. it was in 2019 , that for first time russia began to train their troops with a 50 drones attacks ,this is a very low number
to what azerbaijan was doing. and ridiculous low to what US ,NATO and israel can pull.
Russia to defend Crimea and kalingrad properly.. need at least to train at least with mass waves
of 5,000 thousands micro drones attacking their base..to take down their air defenses first and later send their f-35 to finish the job. so very powerful zone area attacks with Emp artillery ,electronic melting weapons and lots of cheap automatic anti air artillery mounted on cheap trucks.
Nearly all those russian air defenses deployed in russia syria base ,will be next to useless to fight future modern wars. including s-400 and s-300s and patsirs. with skies full of micro drones with artificial intelligence and explosives.
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Sky business: what kind of drones does the defense Ministry rely on
Priority can be given to attack UAVS and kamikaze drones
https://iz.ru/1098861/anton-lavrov/nebesnoe-delo-na-kakie-bespilotniki-delaet-stavku-minoborony
Priority can be given to attack UAVS and kamikaze drones
https://iz.ru/1098861/anton-lavrov/nebesnoe-delo-na-kakie-bespilotniki-delaet-stavku-minoborony
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So not that Russia air defenses where fine ?
Yeah... keep being a dick Vann... Russian air defences are the best in the world because they learn from experiences even ones they don't go through themselves.
It was high altitude operations over Kosovo by HATO that resulted in funding for Pantsir for instance... note by your stupid comment above I guess that means that the Russian Air Defence network can't deal with aircraft flying over 10K km because why else would they upgrade the Panstir to engage targets to 15km.
Well BUK and S-300 and now S-350 and S-400 can engage such targets easily along with a wide range of obsolete systems, but they learned a lesson in the Kosovo conflict that enemies can evade Pantsir by flying above it... a situation they corrected with new models engaging targets to 15km altitude.
"Since November, the development of an unmanned helicopter for a long-range radar patrol has been underway, which will track small-sized and low-speed enemy drones at low and extremely low altitudes and provide guidance to them with anti-aircraft missile systems of the military air defense," the source said.
This is interesting, so an unmanned helicopter will chase down enemy drones and provide targeting data to ground forces...
Upgrades to the Mi-28NM include new sensors like radar and IIR systems, and of course the new airburst 30mm cannon shells it would be using, but I wonder if they are looking at cheap guided versions of unguided rockets that could be used to take down drones, and perhaps also the Pine SAM and the Bulat ATGM, which are both laser beam riding missiles which should be pretty cheap and simple and able to be carried in numbers too.
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Nearly all those russian air defenses deployed in russia syria base ,will be next to useless to fight future modern wars. including s-400 and s-300s and patsirs. with skies full of micro drones with artificial intelligence and explosives.
And how is the west going to get on... all their SAMs are crap and enormously expensive show ponies they can't afford to actually use because the missiles are so expensive they don't buy enough to actually have enough to use for training let alone combat.
How many TOR or Pantsir equivalent systems are there in the west and how many have been produced?
It is going to be funny when freedom fighters start launching drones against their western oppressors and those conflicts start getting really expensive...
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Eh don't worry about Vann. People have serious misconceptions about air defense. It is a near impossible task and ruskies have done admirably. They have learned a lot from Syria particularly from Turkish drone attacks (quietly aided by the west and Israel). Pantsir has been a particular target of National Interest tier sites. It is an excellent platform but certain weaknesses (like a weaker ability to detect near vertical attacks) were exploited, particularly when combined air defense of the area was weak and pantsirs had little to back them up. Those against Russian/Syrian interests undoubtedly share Intel and attacks within the surrounded nation are very quick and difficult to detect. Pantsir has dealt with many drone attacks successfully, but a few have been lost. Other air defense platforms have been more effective but are more costly in use.
What we never hear about in the western rags are the continuing failures of western and Israeli SAM systems and air defense. Russia is particularly picked on. It pisses me off. Vann is just part of those who side with the propaganda.
What we never hear about in the western rags are the continuing failures of western and Israeli SAM systems and air defense. Russia is particularly picked on. It pisses me off. Vann is just part of those who side with the propaganda.
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Yes, I hope Vann is earning good money to be a mouthpiece of American propaganda... Pantsirs have been lost... but not Russian ones used correctly in battery groups able to offer mutual self defence... the vehicles lost were individual vehicles operating on their own that always seem to be non operational when attacked with their radar down and all missiles expended...
The only better system for shooting down drones would be TOR and while it is an expensive system to buy... it is not expensive at all compared with inferior western systems... I was going to say equivalent western systems but there aren't any.
TOR has cheap missiles and is getting reduced size short range anti drone missiles to deal specifically with the problem of drones.
The funny thing is that the complaint is not that the Russians don't shoot down every drone that attacks them... it is that Russian allies (mis)using Russian systems don't shoot down drones... except in Syria they do seem to shoot down the vast majority of weapons launched at them which includes all sorts of super expensive and super sophisticated stand off munitions from Israel and the US for the loss of maybe three Pantsir vehicles... in NK the performance was particularly bad but they had OSA systems that are ancient and they clearly didn't take the threat of drone attack seriously... unlike the Russians do.
To your average joe if you have a Stinger missile then all low flying planes and helicopters should be dead, but when you are defending an entire country and you only have 20 of them then of course such weapons are not always effective.
A capable enemy can determine where your air defence systems are strongest and find a weak area for their attack to make themselves appear more capable than they actually are.
You see the video of the successful attacks in thermal imaging views because explosions look rather more spectacular in IR... what you don't see is the enormous numbers of failures, or the fact that just taking a camera up into the air to look for enemy forces is often much more valuable than flying your drone into one vehicle and possibly only lightly damaging it.
The US is spending 120 million dollars per airframe for F-35s... do you think they think the future of warfare is drones?
Drones are a great way for a strong country to attack a weak country to target a part of that countries population like the US does with armed drones in Pakistan.
Drones are a great way for a small weak country to overwhelm another weak country... especially with the support of a powerful neighbour.
It is unlikely drones will allow a weak country to defeat a powerful country... the Taleban are not going to kick US troops out of Afghanistan by using drones or drone attacks.
In fact rich countries like Israel are probably most at risk to drone attacks... their air defence systems are expensive... a Spyder missile for a $50 drone and they better start printing money or go bankrupt...
Saudi Arabian attacks show western equipment is even worse at detecting drones and cruise missiles than we thought... Russian work on detecting and tracking low RCS targets is paying off with drones...
The only better system for shooting down drones would be TOR and while it is an expensive system to buy... it is not expensive at all compared with inferior western systems... I was going to say equivalent western systems but there aren't any.
TOR has cheap missiles and is getting reduced size short range anti drone missiles to deal specifically with the problem of drones.
The funny thing is that the complaint is not that the Russians don't shoot down every drone that attacks them... it is that Russian allies (mis)using Russian systems don't shoot down drones... except in Syria they do seem to shoot down the vast majority of weapons launched at them which includes all sorts of super expensive and super sophisticated stand off munitions from Israel and the US for the loss of maybe three Pantsir vehicles... in NK the performance was particularly bad but they had OSA systems that are ancient and they clearly didn't take the threat of drone attack seriously... unlike the Russians do.
To your average joe if you have a Stinger missile then all low flying planes and helicopters should be dead, but when you are defending an entire country and you only have 20 of them then of course such weapons are not always effective.
A capable enemy can determine where your air defence systems are strongest and find a weak area for their attack to make themselves appear more capable than they actually are.
You see the video of the successful attacks in thermal imaging views because explosions look rather more spectacular in IR... what you don't see is the enormous numbers of failures, or the fact that just taking a camera up into the air to look for enemy forces is often much more valuable than flying your drone into one vehicle and possibly only lightly damaging it.
The US is spending 120 million dollars per airframe for F-35s... do you think they think the future of warfare is drones?
Drones are a great way for a strong country to attack a weak country to target a part of that countries population like the US does with armed drones in Pakistan.
Drones are a great way for a small weak country to overwhelm another weak country... especially with the support of a powerful neighbour.
It is unlikely drones will allow a weak country to defeat a powerful country... the Taleban are not going to kick US troops out of Afghanistan by using drones or drone attacks.
In fact rich countries like Israel are probably most at risk to drone attacks... their air defence systems are expensive... a Spyder missile for a $50 drone and they better start printing money or go bankrupt...
Saudi Arabian attacks show western equipment is even worse at detecting drones and cruise missiles than we thought... Russian work on detecting and tracking low RCS targets is paying off with drones...
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- Post n°196
Re: UAVs in Russian Armed Forces: News #2
Someone said Jeff Bezo's & Amazon would lead the world in drone delivery.........
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- Post n°197
Re: UAVs in Russian Armed Forces: News #2
Can't wait till Russian engines are ready for those... the idea is brilliant and potential is enormous...
It really could become Thunderbird 2 with different modules loaded for different jobs.
Imagine a UAV module that is essentially a small cabin camouflaged to look like a rock or a bush or something that is a self contained shelter for a crew of 3-4 soldiers with UAVs that can be launched and recovered with some light ceramic armour for protection... you could fly it up the side of a mountain and it could allow enemy forces to be monitored and drones launched and targets attacked... the rear end could have a remote weapon station with a light machine gun or grenade launcher that can be used while attached to the helicopter for self defence but also used on the ground too.
Things get too hot you could fly up and attach it and fly away...
A two sniper/recon position could be developed.... along with just general pods that normal helicopters have... so for every type of use for a helicopter it could have a pod it can have attached to allow SAR and light support and maritime patrol and supporting special forces... or just simple transport missions.
Those new rotors to improve flight speed too with new more powerful Russian engines could allow it to operate where no other helicopters can operate... perhaps rescues right up to the top of Mt Everest.
The number of times people near the top get altitude sickness and other members of their group die too trying to rescue them... being able to fly a helicopter up there to pick them up and bring them down would save a lot of lives...
It really could become Thunderbird 2 with different modules loaded for different jobs.
Imagine a UAV module that is essentially a small cabin camouflaged to look like a rock or a bush or something that is a self contained shelter for a crew of 3-4 soldiers with UAVs that can be launched and recovered with some light ceramic armour for protection... you could fly it up the side of a mountain and it could allow enemy forces to be monitored and drones launched and targets attacked... the rear end could have a remote weapon station with a light machine gun or grenade launcher that can be used while attached to the helicopter for self defence but also used on the ground too.
Things get too hot you could fly up and attach it and fly away...
A two sniper/recon position could be developed.... along with just general pods that normal helicopters have... so for every type of use for a helicopter it could have a pod it can have attached to allow SAR and light support and maritime patrol and supporting special forces... or just simple transport missions.
Those new rotors to improve flight speed too with new more powerful Russian engines could allow it to operate where no other helicopters can operate... perhaps rescues right up to the top of Mt Everest.
The number of times people near the top get altitude sickness and other members of their group die too trying to rescue them... being able to fly a helicopter up there to pick them up and bring them down would save a lot of lives...
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- Post n°198
Re: UAVs in Russian Armed Forces: News #2
The Ministry of Defense received the first batch of new unmanned systems - simulators of air targets
The Ministry of Defense received the first batch of multifunctional drones aviation complexes intended for use as flying targets. The press service of Rostec reports.
The complex with unmanned aerial vehicles - simulator of air targets (KBLA IVTs) was developed by JSC TsNTU "Dinamika" and is intended for testing new types of weapons. The complex includes a helicopter-type drone with a take-off weight of over 300 kg, a ground control station and ground support facilities. The complex is capable of imitating low-speed drones and helicopters.
- said the corporation.
The UAV complex simulates the behavior of air targets, allowing you to test new weapons in conditions as close as possible to combat. The use of a "target drone" makes it possible to assess the accuracy of guidance and the effectiveness of destruction
https://en.topwar.ru/178452-minoborony-poluchilo-pervuju-partiju-novyh-bespilotnyh-kompleksov-imitatorov-vozdushnyh-celej.html
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- Post n°199
Re: UAVs in Russian Armed Forces: News #2
https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/10329081
Strategic missile carrier Tu-95MS worked out the control of the drone in flight
A source in the military-industrial complex did not rule out in the future the possibility of such tests with a heavy stealth strike drone "Okhotnik"
Strategic missile carrier Tu-95MS worked out the control of the drone in flight
A source in the military-industrial complex did not rule out in the future the possibility of such tests with a heavy stealth strike drone "Okhotnik"
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Re: UAVs in Russian Armed Forces: News #2
http://www.promweekly.ru/archive/kret/2021/KRET_1-2021.pdf
"In the armed conflict in Karabakh, a massive targeted use of complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of various classes for mobile and
stationary targets. They demonstrated
prompt solution of the problem of formation and
issuing data for target designation and guidance in
form for immediate application
blows.
This local conflict confirms the expected high combat effectiveness
reconnaissance, target designation and objective control of the results of strikes in real time with
the use of on-board optical and electronic information systems. Equipping UAVs with high-resolution radar means turns them into systems that do not
losing their functionality in difficult combat conditions.
Until the end of the 80s of the last century
development of design bureaus of Tupolev,
Lavochkin, Smolensk Aviation Plant were at the level of the best world samples.
Unfortunately, in the difficult 90s, our positions were lost. In recent years, with the beginning of the re-equipment of our Armed Forces
in 2010–2011 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
signed a number of contracts with the industry for the development of UAV complexes of some
classes, but to date none of them
has not yet been adopted. One of the main
the reasons for this lies in the fact that experimental design work (R&D) on
the creation of radar target loads,
meeting the requirements of combat use
as part of reconnaissance shock and shock
complexes with UAVs, the main of which is obtaining radar images
(RLI) in real time with a resolution of 0.25-0.3 m and accurate referencing of RI to
geodetic coordinates.
Currently, at the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman in the framework of the initiative ROC developed
multifunctional radar (MBRLS) of the Ku-band of radio wavelengths, which in 2019
successfully passed the preliminary, and in October
2020 has completed interdepartmental testing.
Scientific and technical development challenge
was the creation of a prototype MBRLS
Ku-band radio wavelengths providing real-time on board
unmanned aerial vehicle formation of target information, including radar images with sub-meter
resolution and its exact binding to the specified
geodetic coordinate system.
MBRLS operates in the following modes:
real beam mapping
antennas;
mapping with synthesis
antenna aperture and linear resolution up to 0.3 m;
selection of ground (surface) moving targets;
assessment of the meteorological situation;
measurement of the slant range to the ground
surfaces;
information support for low-altitude flight;
radio monitoring;
built-in control.
To the features of the prototype that predetermine the possibility of widespread use of Ku-band ICBMs in manned and
unmanned aerial vehicles include:
modularity of construction of components
MBRLS, which allows you to create a construct according to customer requirements;
weight 38 kg with power consumption no more than 400 W and average operating time at
failure for at least 400 hours;
multifunctionality supported
intelligent control;
software with an open distributed architecture focused on ease of modernization;
the use of the domestic high-performance microprocessor "Elbrus-4S",
providing the formation in real time radar images with a resolution
from 0.3 m, allowing you to perform a reliable
object recognition, including small ones;
binding radar images to geodetic coordinates
with the issuance of target designation for the guidance of high-precision weapons;
built-in control system allowing
efficient operation with the issuance of information on the status of all MBRLS modules
during preparation and during the flight, as well as
on the performance of post-flight service.
The act of interdepartmental tests of the prototype MBRLS confirms that it has passed interdepartmental tests in full
volume, meets the tactical and technical requirements for initiative ROC and is suitable for
use as part of small and medium UAVs
and is recommended for government testing.
Received a prototype MBRLS
Ku-band has the necessary properties for widespread use as
highly effective radar payload in manned and unmanned
complexes for military and civil purposes, as well as for specialization by tasks
intelligence, mapping and radio imaging.
Expanding the zone of instability around
territory of Russia dictates the need to increase the intensity of work to create
reconnaissance and reconnaissance shock
complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles.
For more than 70 years of its work, JSC "Design Bureau of Industrial Automation"
(KBPA JSC) has accumulated significant experience in
development and production of control systems
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
In the piggy bank of the enterprise is the implementation of R&D on
development of a flight and navigation complex (PNK) for unmanned aerial vehicles
devices Mi-4, "Korshun", "Woodpecker", "Patrol",
air targets "Tribute", "L-39M".
Achievement of new serious results in
this area was largely facilitated by the results of R&D carried out by the enterprise in recent years, the main of which are
"SAU MBLA", "PKV-8", "BDPI M", "VUP", "PVN",
"KNO".
At present, KBPA JSC is working on a number of urgent projects to create
FPK for unmanned aerial vehicles
helicopter type (BLA-VT). The main purpose of the development is such characteristics of the ACS as
reliability, compliance with the level of the best world samples, advanced functionality and
flexibility of the structure, allowing you to quickly
adapt to changing customer requirements.
Functional flight and navigation
BLA-VT complex provides:
1. Automatic takeoff and landing.
2. Performing a programmed flight in an autonomous mode along a route over land and water surface (sea) with specified values of the course, altitude, and indicated speed for
each stage.
3. Execution of flight in the director (command) control mode by commands
from an automated workstation (AWP)
of the UAV-VT operator of the ground control station (NPU) from the calculation of the complex.
4. Reception from the operator's AWP BLA-VT NPU and
execution of commands for correcting the flight program and one-time commands for changing modes
flight and operation of onboard equipment.
5. Transmission of telemetric and other
service information.
6. Return in automatic mode to the point
with predetermined coordinates in case of loss of communication with the NCP or in an emergency.
Possible operating conditions for BLA-VT
make high demands on the onboard
equipment that must work flawlessly in any weather, day and night, in various climatic zones. Experience of JSC "KBPA"
on the creation of systems for shipborne and Arctic helicopters allows you to apply the existing developments in FPU for unmanned aerial vehicles.
We consider it especially important to choose the structure of the PNC based on the concept
achieving the necessary indicators of fail safety and reliability, based on the list
tasks solved by the complex.
In the course of work on the PNK BLA-VT specialists
KBPA JSC analyzed foreign experience
and took into account the advantages of such analogs as systems
GTMax, "Camcopter S-100". In particular, adopted
solution to duplicate equipment - on board the unmanned helicopter GTMax installed
two calculators, two independent communication channels with the NCP and the possibility of monitoring
Aircraft and interception of control of the remote pilot.
In turn, the strength of Camcopter
S-100 "is a duplication of the main sensors of initial information, communication channels, generators that provide power to the ACS.
As a result, the specialists of KBPA JSC proposed the structure of the PNK BLA-VT, surpassing
in terms of reliability and functionality, all analogues - fully duplicated flight and navigation equipment, on-board system
controls, takeoff and landing equipment,
communication channels with interacting avionics equipment. This PNK structure allows you to fend off any first refusal, stably
ensures full functionality up to
the second failure, and in case of its appearance, the PNK
allows you to take measures for an emergency landing of the UAV-VT.
So, as part of the flight and navigation
equipment is provided on board
two duplicating sources of information about the current location, and the composition
The BSU includes two computing modules.
In the absence of signals from navigation
satellites, software modules of autonomous reckoning and algorithms operate
correction of position data by radio beacons.
Dual redundancy provided
also when determining the heading angle of the BLA-VT,
air and ground speed, true (geometric) and barometric altitude. In addition, the PNC can receive information from
navigation system and payload,
carried by the UAV.
To determine the heading angle of the BLA-VT
the main source is strapdown inertial navigation systems
(SINS) flight and navigation complex and
UAV payload with value correction
angle according to the information of a three-axis magnetometer
and satellite navigation system (SNS).
The airspeed of the BLA-VT is determined from
using the means of a duplicated air signal system (SVS), and track - according to the information of the SNS with duplication, in the absence
signals from satellites, according to SINS PNK and
UAV payload.
The true altitude of the UAV-VT is determined by the radio altimeter, in the barometric altitude - by the duplicated SHS system (the SHS receiver is shown
in Figure 1).
If the radio altimeter fails,
flight support information is used
about the height from the laser rangefinder from the automatic landing system by radio beacons.
As a source of primary information about roll and pitch angles, angular velocities,
angular and linear accelerations, overloads and
vertical speed BLA-VT are applied
SINS of the flight and navigation complex and
UAV payload. In the absence of
a specific version of the SINS payload
and failure of SINS PNK, the initial information comes from micromechanical angular acceleration sensors built into each
of two computational modules included in
composition of the BSU.
Thus, the composition of the flight and navigation complex provides, at least,
two sources for each of the required parameters. Failure of major sources and transition
for backup (backup) does not reduce the quality of the FPK and allows you to continue the flight
BLA-VT and performance of various tasks by it.
Variability is also envisaged in the on-board take-off and landing equipment (BO WUA).
To do this, it was proposed to have on board the UAV-VT
two independent systems:
a system of automatic landing by radio beacons (SAP by radio beacons). On the image
2 shows the antenna and the on-board EPS unit;
autonomous differential-satellite landing system according to coordinates received from the SNS and / or from the autonomous navigation complex (KAP).
In addition, if it is impossible to equip the runway in engineering terms or if
the need to land a UAV-VT in an unprepared area, remote from the NPU, in the PNK
it is possible to enter a landing system under the control of an external pilot (operator) using
ground kit (Figure 3)
this, the operator from the workplace enters and transmits the flight task to the FPK by radio link,
containing the generated route and flight profile.
In accordance with this, the main tasks performed by the navigation component
complex PNK are:
formation of a UAV-VT flight plan;
in-flight determination of current information
about the BLA-VT state vector;
processing of this data into the management
information ensuring the fulfillment of the assigned flight tasks in accordance with the flight program;
information processing
about the BLA-VT state vector and issuance for
registration.
It should be noted that during the development of PNC for UAV-VT at KBPA JSC the maximum
own unique means of ground testing, semi-natural modeling and flight test support were used.
These include a ground-based development complex, including a mathematical model of a flying
apparatus, simulator of information systems,
ground control station, as well as the Berezina aerobatic research stand.
The mathematical model of the aircraft is a system of nonlinear
differential equations describing
both the movement of the center of mass of the aircraft and the movement
relative to the center of mass. The aircraft model includes aircraft aerodynamics,
turbulence of the atmosphere, display of current information on a computer display, dynamic data recording with subsequent
viewing.
The information systems simulator reproduces the operation of the flight and navigation
equipment from the PNK and UAV-VT onboard equipment, interacting with the PNK,
as well as signals of failures or malfunctions.
Information systems simulator software includes dynamic models of sensors included in
PNA and interacting with it, the implementation of the interface corresponding to the real
output parameters of flight and navigation equipment and interacting
hardware, dialog box for control
models and display of current information.
Ground control post includes
operator's workplace and flight visualization system. Flight visualization system
(SVP) provides images of the type "view
from the cockpit "or" view underneath ", that is, from the bow of the UAV-VT in the direction of travel, with
the ability to rotate the image along the course
and pitch. The operator's workplace allows for the development and commissioning of the flight
missions, display of flight information and
control of UAV-VT through on-board equipment
command radio link.
The Berezina aerobatic research facility is designed to simulate
research and evaluation of control laws
helicopters of various classes and purposes
with a pilot in the control loop. The basis of the stand is a cabin with organs and wiring
control, computing multi-machine
complex realizing the equations of dynamics
the simulated object, as well as a system of in-cab and external visualization. High
the effectiveness of bench research is confirmed by the results of development and flight
tests of aerobatic systems for helicopters Mi-26, Mi-28N, Ka-32, Ka-31, Ka-50,
Ka-52, Ka-60U, as well as Ka-226 and Ansat and their
modifications.
Surface mining facilities created in
JSC "KBPA", allow to introduce modern algorithmic
and software and mathematical support, significantly improve the quality of the
onboard systems, while reducing the cost of
flight tests and operation.
From the 70s to the present
ACS for UAVs are being introduced the most modern
hardware and technological solutions that make it possible to perform all operational and tactical tasks assigned to these
aircrafts.
Dozens of completed projects, existing competencies, research, testing and production facilities are still being withdrawn
KBPA JSC is among the leading enterprises in the industry to create automatic control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles"
"In the armed conflict in Karabakh, a massive targeted use of complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of various classes for mobile and
stationary targets. They demonstrated
prompt solution of the problem of formation and
issuing data for target designation and guidance in
form for immediate application
blows.
This local conflict confirms the expected high combat effectiveness
reconnaissance, target designation and objective control of the results of strikes in real time with
the use of on-board optical and electronic information systems. Equipping UAVs with high-resolution radar means turns them into systems that do not
losing their functionality in difficult combat conditions.
Until the end of the 80s of the last century
development of design bureaus of Tupolev,
Lavochkin, Smolensk Aviation Plant were at the level of the best world samples.
Unfortunately, in the difficult 90s, our positions were lost. In recent years, with the beginning of the re-equipment of our Armed Forces
in 2010–2011 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
signed a number of contracts with the industry for the development of UAV complexes of some
classes, but to date none of them
has not yet been adopted. One of the main
the reasons for this lies in the fact that experimental design work (R&D) on
the creation of radar target loads,
meeting the requirements of combat use
as part of reconnaissance shock and shock
complexes with UAVs, the main of which is obtaining radar images
(RLI) in real time with a resolution of 0.25-0.3 m and accurate referencing of RI to
geodetic coordinates.
Currently, at the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman in the framework of the initiative ROC developed
multifunctional radar (MBRLS) of the Ku-band of radio wavelengths, which in 2019
successfully passed the preliminary, and in October
2020 has completed interdepartmental testing.
Scientific and technical development challenge
was the creation of a prototype MBRLS
Ku-band radio wavelengths providing real-time on board
unmanned aerial vehicle formation of target information, including radar images with sub-meter
resolution and its exact binding to the specified
geodetic coordinate system.
MBRLS operates in the following modes:
real beam mapping
antennas;
mapping with synthesis
antenna aperture and linear resolution up to 0.3 m;
selection of ground (surface) moving targets;
assessment of the meteorological situation;
measurement of the slant range to the ground
surfaces;
information support for low-altitude flight;
radio monitoring;
built-in control.
To the features of the prototype that predetermine the possibility of widespread use of Ku-band ICBMs in manned and
unmanned aerial vehicles include:
modularity of construction of components
MBRLS, which allows you to create a construct according to customer requirements;
weight 38 kg with power consumption no more than 400 W and average operating time at
failure for at least 400 hours;
multifunctionality supported
intelligent control;
software with an open distributed architecture focused on ease of modernization;
the use of the domestic high-performance microprocessor "Elbrus-4S",
providing the formation in real time radar images with a resolution
from 0.3 m, allowing you to perform a reliable
object recognition, including small ones;
binding radar images to geodetic coordinates
with the issuance of target designation for the guidance of high-precision weapons;
built-in control system allowing
efficient operation with the issuance of information on the status of all MBRLS modules
during preparation and during the flight, as well as
on the performance of post-flight service.
The act of interdepartmental tests of the prototype MBRLS confirms that it has passed interdepartmental tests in full
volume, meets the tactical and technical requirements for initiative ROC and is suitable for
use as part of small and medium UAVs
and is recommended for government testing.
Received a prototype MBRLS
Ku-band has the necessary properties for widespread use as
highly effective radar payload in manned and unmanned
complexes for military and civil purposes, as well as for specialization by tasks
intelligence, mapping and radio imaging.
Expanding the zone of instability around
territory of Russia dictates the need to increase the intensity of work to create
reconnaissance and reconnaissance shock
complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles.
For more than 70 years of its work, JSC "Design Bureau of Industrial Automation"
(KBPA JSC) has accumulated significant experience in
development and production of control systems
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
In the piggy bank of the enterprise is the implementation of R&D on
development of a flight and navigation complex (PNK) for unmanned aerial vehicles
devices Mi-4, "Korshun", "Woodpecker", "Patrol",
air targets "Tribute", "L-39M".
Achievement of new serious results in
this area was largely facilitated by the results of R&D carried out by the enterprise in recent years, the main of which are
"SAU MBLA", "PKV-8", "BDPI M", "VUP", "PVN",
"KNO".
At present, KBPA JSC is working on a number of urgent projects to create
FPK for unmanned aerial vehicles
helicopter type (BLA-VT). The main purpose of the development is such characteristics of the ACS as
reliability, compliance with the level of the best world samples, advanced functionality and
flexibility of the structure, allowing you to quickly
adapt to changing customer requirements.
Functional flight and navigation
BLA-VT complex provides:
1. Automatic takeoff and landing.
2. Performing a programmed flight in an autonomous mode along a route over land and water surface (sea) with specified values of the course, altitude, and indicated speed for
each stage.
3. Execution of flight in the director (command) control mode by commands
from an automated workstation (AWP)
of the UAV-VT operator of the ground control station (NPU) from the calculation of the complex.
4. Reception from the operator's AWP BLA-VT NPU and
execution of commands for correcting the flight program and one-time commands for changing modes
flight and operation of onboard equipment.
5. Transmission of telemetric and other
service information.
6. Return in automatic mode to the point
with predetermined coordinates in case of loss of communication with the NCP or in an emergency.
Possible operating conditions for BLA-VT
make high demands on the onboard
equipment that must work flawlessly in any weather, day and night, in various climatic zones. Experience of JSC "KBPA"
on the creation of systems for shipborne and Arctic helicopters allows you to apply the existing developments in FPU for unmanned aerial vehicles.
We consider it especially important to choose the structure of the PNC based on the concept
achieving the necessary indicators of fail safety and reliability, based on the list
tasks solved by the complex.
In the course of work on the PNK BLA-VT specialists
KBPA JSC analyzed foreign experience
and took into account the advantages of such analogs as systems
GTMax, "Camcopter S-100". In particular, adopted
solution to duplicate equipment - on board the unmanned helicopter GTMax installed
two calculators, two independent communication channels with the NCP and the possibility of monitoring
Aircraft and interception of control of the remote pilot.
In turn, the strength of Camcopter
S-100 "is a duplication of the main sensors of initial information, communication channels, generators that provide power to the ACS.
As a result, the specialists of KBPA JSC proposed the structure of the PNK BLA-VT, surpassing
in terms of reliability and functionality, all analogues - fully duplicated flight and navigation equipment, on-board system
controls, takeoff and landing equipment,
communication channels with interacting avionics equipment. This PNK structure allows you to fend off any first refusal, stably
ensures full functionality up to
the second failure, and in case of its appearance, the PNK
allows you to take measures for an emergency landing of the UAV-VT.
So, as part of the flight and navigation
equipment is provided on board
two duplicating sources of information about the current location, and the composition
The BSU includes two computing modules.
In the absence of signals from navigation
satellites, software modules of autonomous reckoning and algorithms operate
correction of position data by radio beacons.
Dual redundancy provided
also when determining the heading angle of the BLA-VT,
air and ground speed, true (geometric) and barometric altitude. In addition, the PNC can receive information from
navigation system and payload,
carried by the UAV.
To determine the heading angle of the BLA-VT
the main source is strapdown inertial navigation systems
(SINS) flight and navigation complex and
UAV payload with value correction
angle according to the information of a three-axis magnetometer
and satellite navigation system (SNS).
The airspeed of the BLA-VT is determined from
using the means of a duplicated air signal system (SVS), and track - according to the information of the SNS with duplication, in the absence
signals from satellites, according to SINS PNK and
UAV payload.
The true altitude of the UAV-VT is determined by the radio altimeter, in the barometric altitude - by the duplicated SHS system (the SHS receiver is shown
in Figure 1).
If the radio altimeter fails,
flight support information is used
about the height from the laser rangefinder from the automatic landing system by radio beacons.
As a source of primary information about roll and pitch angles, angular velocities,
angular and linear accelerations, overloads and
vertical speed BLA-VT are applied
SINS of the flight and navigation complex and
UAV payload. In the absence of
a specific version of the SINS payload
and failure of SINS PNK, the initial information comes from micromechanical angular acceleration sensors built into each
of two computational modules included in
composition of the BSU.
Thus, the composition of the flight and navigation complex provides, at least,
two sources for each of the required parameters. Failure of major sources and transition
for backup (backup) does not reduce the quality of the FPK and allows you to continue the flight
BLA-VT and performance of various tasks by it.
Variability is also envisaged in the on-board take-off and landing equipment (BO WUA).
To do this, it was proposed to have on board the UAV-VT
two independent systems:
a system of automatic landing by radio beacons (SAP by radio beacons). On the image
2 shows the antenna and the on-board EPS unit;
autonomous differential-satellite landing system according to coordinates received from the SNS and / or from the autonomous navigation complex (KAP).
In addition, if it is impossible to equip the runway in engineering terms or if
the need to land a UAV-VT in an unprepared area, remote from the NPU, in the PNK
it is possible to enter a landing system under the control of an external pilot (operator) using
ground kit (Figure 3)
this, the operator from the workplace enters and transmits the flight task to the FPK by radio link,
containing the generated route and flight profile.
In accordance with this, the main tasks performed by the navigation component
complex PNK are:
formation of a UAV-VT flight plan;
in-flight determination of current information
about the BLA-VT state vector;
processing of this data into the management
information ensuring the fulfillment of the assigned flight tasks in accordance with the flight program;
information processing
about the BLA-VT state vector and issuance for
registration.
It should be noted that during the development of PNC for UAV-VT at KBPA JSC the maximum
own unique means of ground testing, semi-natural modeling and flight test support were used.
These include a ground-based development complex, including a mathematical model of a flying
apparatus, simulator of information systems,
ground control station, as well as the Berezina aerobatic research stand.
The mathematical model of the aircraft is a system of nonlinear
differential equations describing
both the movement of the center of mass of the aircraft and the movement
relative to the center of mass. The aircraft model includes aircraft aerodynamics,
turbulence of the atmosphere, display of current information on a computer display, dynamic data recording with subsequent
viewing.
The information systems simulator reproduces the operation of the flight and navigation
equipment from the PNK and UAV-VT onboard equipment, interacting with the PNK,
as well as signals of failures or malfunctions.
Information systems simulator software includes dynamic models of sensors included in
PNA and interacting with it, the implementation of the interface corresponding to the real
output parameters of flight and navigation equipment and interacting
hardware, dialog box for control
models and display of current information.
Ground control post includes
operator's workplace and flight visualization system. Flight visualization system
(SVP) provides images of the type "view
from the cockpit "or" view underneath ", that is, from the bow of the UAV-VT in the direction of travel, with
the ability to rotate the image along the course
and pitch. The operator's workplace allows for the development and commissioning of the flight
missions, display of flight information and
control of UAV-VT through on-board equipment
command radio link.
The Berezina aerobatic research facility is designed to simulate
research and evaluation of control laws
helicopters of various classes and purposes
with a pilot in the control loop. The basis of the stand is a cabin with organs and wiring
control, computing multi-machine
complex realizing the equations of dynamics
the simulated object, as well as a system of in-cab and external visualization. High
the effectiveness of bench research is confirmed by the results of development and flight
tests of aerobatic systems for helicopters Mi-26, Mi-28N, Ka-32, Ka-31, Ka-50,
Ka-52, Ka-60U, as well as Ka-226 and Ansat and their
modifications.
Surface mining facilities created in
JSC "KBPA", allow to introduce modern algorithmic
and software and mathematical support, significantly improve the quality of the
onboard systems, while reducing the cost of
flight tests and operation.
From the 70s to the present
ACS for UAVs are being introduced the most modern
hardware and technological solutions that make it possible to perform all operational and tactical tasks assigned to these
aircrafts.
Dozens of completed projects, existing competencies, research, testing and production facilities are still being withdrawn
KBPA JSC is among the leading enterprises in the industry to create automatic control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles"
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