Defence Intelligence’s surface drones to hunt down Russian air targets as well
Pravda Ukraine
After a successful “hunt” for Russian boats and vessels, the developers of the Magura uncrewed surface vessel (USVs) are planning to deploy air defence assets and possibly other weapons systems on these drones.
Source: Ukrainska Pravda article Find and Sink. How Budanov’s Magura drones destroy Russian vessels (English translation to follow shortly)
Quote from Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence: “Experts are now working to switch air defence systems to remote operation. I’m not a technician, but I understand that this is a rather difficult task. We need assets of detecting a target, capturing an air target, an asset of destruction – and all this must be placed on a fairly small platform. It’s not an easy task technically, but it is real.”
Details: One of the developers explained that wave impacts and pressure drops put such a strain on the drone’s structure that it is a complicated task to develop a stabiliser capable of absorbing such vibrations. And without a stable platform, no weapon system will work, because it simply won’t be able to start and fire.
But this work is already underway, and very soon drones will be able to carry various modules to hit all types of targets: ground, surface and air. And the drones themselves are promised to become less and less visible, up to the point of being able to dive underwater for a while.
Read more about how the Magura surface drones appeared, the Russian targets they have captured, and Ukrainian Defence Intelligence’s competition with the Security Service of Ukraine in the Ukrainska Pravda article (English translation to follow shortly).
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