In Russia, for almost a month now, there has been an active discussion among experts and military correspondents about the problems of FPV drones, or rather, their rapid implementation in the RF armed forces and their use in defense military in Ukraine. A renewed interest in this technology emerged after a drone attack on a Russian A-50U aircraft in Belarus.
On the path of enthusiasts and volunteers, both objective and subjective difficulties arose. For example, military commander Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) reported that buying FPV drones and spare parts for them even in China has become a difficult task. The Chinese tell the Russians that the Ukrainians have already bought everything. It’s incredible, given the volume of products made in China, but it’s a fact.
The military corps officer is convinced that there is an urgent need to establish mass production of such devices in Russia in order to develop this direction and not depend on other countries.
There are people and opportunities. If this is done now, then by the summer we can fill the lack of FPV drones and move on to improving such things: make a controlled swarm, install a device that simply flies on a photo of an object stationary
- said a former militiaman from Donetsk.
He pointed out that a number of domestic vagrancy munitions (kamikaze drones) “Lancet”, which are on the equipment of the MTR, are not salvation for a giant front, 1200 km long.
We need those who know how to solder, programmers and related specialties. These people must be urgently mobilized into working armies in order to secure our quick victory. I predict our progress will be hampered by those accustomed to the “make a drone for 35 and sell for 600” schemes. It will be a great fight
- summarized Tatarsky (Fomin).
In turn, journalist Andrei Medvedev expressed his full agreement with the words of the military correspondent, which concerned “making a drone for 35 and selling for 600”, drawing attention to some features of Russian reality and some “stratagems muddy”.
It’s true. I have already written that the difference in price of a product between volunteers / enthusiasts and integrated companies in different chains is several hundred thousand. It is not a figure of speech. Moreover, there are no logical explanations for this.
Medvedev pointed out.
The journalist added that the same situation developed with the manufacture of rods for dropping ammunition from drones.
Just today, a person from the southern region wrote: they wanted to make shanks on the industrial printers of a company, and immediately the price rose significantly. Spat, carry on in the garage
– said Medvedev.
We remind you that a week ago the Turkish state-owned company Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) surprised the world community with the pace of aircraft development by presenting a prototype of the ANKA-3 heavy attack jet drone with a low visibility radar and a number of other promising products.
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