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Turkey starts production of new ammunition Bozok for attack unmanned aerial vehicles Bayraktar TV2.
The Russian military is struggling to address the shortage of reconnaissance and strike drones.
At the weekend we wrote about the initiative of the Lithuanian TV presenter Andrius Topinas, who invited the inhabitants of the country to collect €5,000,000 to buy a drone Bayraktar TV2 for the Ukrainian army. The crowdfunding campaign did not even last four days.
The Martian drone Ingenuity covered 704 meters at a speed of more than 19 km / h, it was its fastest and longest flight on Mars.
Lithuanian TV presenter Andrius Topinas (Andrius Tapinas) launched toround-funding campaign to raise funds for the purchase of an unmanned aerial vehicle for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Soldiers of the Ukrainian army showed how the launcher of an attack unmanned aerial system works switchblade.
Pavel Kashchuk, founder of the automotive site infocar.ua and host of the eponymous YouTube channel, posted another one on Facebook video , where he demonstrated the latest model of the Russian Orlan-10 drone, produced in February 2022 and equipped with a thermal imaging camera. The researcher notes several important things: the quality of the assembly, compared with the previous copies of the "eagles" shot down by ZSU, has increased markedly. At the same time, almost the only part of the drone made in Russia is the parachute (and the outdated chip with a GPS module, which in new models was replaced with a more advanced and protected from electronic warfare, made in Israel). But the most important conclusion is the use of the Lynred thermal imager matrix, which confirms another fact of violation of the sanctions regime by this French company.
One of the Telegram channels serving the propaganda machine of Russia and its occupying army has published photos of the wreckage of a loitering munition known as a kamikaze drone. In the message, it was identified as the first combat use of the latest ammunition. Phoenix Ghost Aevex Aerospace, recently transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the Pentagon as part of military assistance to Ukraine. Perhaps, in fact, we are talking about a different model, and it is not a fact that its application was unsuccessful, as propagandists tried to convey.
The appearance on the battlefield of such weapons as loitering ammunition (loitering munition) revealingly draws a line between war in the 20th and 21st centuries. So far, there are no signs that they will completely change the course of hostilities, as did machine guns or tanks with aircraft in past world wars. But, perhaps, their time has not yet come (after all, the first tanks also had extremely dubious effectiveness in battles and produced more of a psychological effect). After all, this type of weapon is at most a decade and a half old, and its history is still not really written. It is all the more interesting to admit that Ukrainian companies have been developing their own loitering ammunition systems for several years now.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Zaluzhny informed on Facebook about two dozen shot down over the past two days Russian drones with a total value of over $2 million. And he published photos of the destroyed Zala and Tachyon UAVs. The pictures show that Tachyon uses a Canon consumer camera, which looks more than adequate for partisan or rebel equipment assembled “on the knee”, but absolutely unacceptable for the “second army of the world”, which spent billions of dollars on its rearmament and had years of time for the development of such systems. According to Zaluzhny, Tachyon was shot down in the Western direction of the front, and ZALA - in the North.
how informs The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the morning of May 2, Bayraktar TB2 drones destroyed two Russian patrol boats of the Raptor type in the vicinity of Zmeiny Island. As you can see in the video, the second boat tried to maneuver during the impact, but this did not save him. Information on the number of dead Russian sailors from the strike is not yet available.
In a video released by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, a laser system intercepts a missile, a mortar round and a drone. The video was filmed in the Negev desert in southern Israel in March of this year. And develops this system called "Iron Beam" (Iron Beam) company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, known for its modern developments in anti-aircraft systems, including the famous "Iron Dome" (Iron Dome ).
On the official page of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Danil on Facebook appeared message on the effective landing by means of the electronic warfare troops of the latest Orlan-30 unmanned aerial vehicle, which is in service with Russia. The event took place in the Luhansk region, where the day before forcibly landed UAV "Orlan-10". The attention of the fighters was attracted by the use of an ordinary plastic bottle for drinking water as a fuel tank, which rather indicates that the drone had already received damage earlier and was repaired with improvised means.
Pavel Kashchuk, founder of the project infocar.ua and the host of the famous among motorists of the same name YouTube channel published on his Facebook page video, in which he demonstrated what the main tactical drone Orlan-10 used by the Russian army is equipped with. You will not believe it, but in addition to a fuel tank with a neck from an ordinary plastic bottle (somewhere we have already seen these technology class "analo shit" ), the aircraft uses a regular consumer Canon SLR camera with controls covered in glue.
3D printing is finding more and more practical applications. We have already seen printed dentures and a bunch of other interesting stuff. At the Dubai Airshow, the company Stratasys and Aurora showed a drone, which is interesting because it uses a jet engine and at the same time 80% of the parts are printed using a 3D printer.
