"Feeling progress": the Armed Forces Boye told about the evolution of drones and the harm from "home" UAV
ua about the rapid change of models of drones in the troops and problems of compatibility of drones, components and their manufacture at home. The former Iitoman and the military of the French foreign legion, the man himself entered the ranks of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in 2022, after the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Russia. In the landing troops, he almost immediately became the commander of the UAV department.
He had never flew on drones before, but technical skills and ability to look for information on the Internet. The military says that at the beginning of the invasion of Ukrainian troops there were almost no drones, even civilian Mavic. Those that were not anonymous and "glowed" on the Aeroscope equipment screens, there were no outtennial antennas. Later, Olga and Bitflip apps from Android, which hid the drones, were later high quality.
Subsequently, other software and hardware appeared that solved the problem. "In the first year of the war, other units worked well Punisher, then volunteers collected $ 50,000 and bought such a bird in the basic version for our unit. But in Muscovite*in the IE in our directions works well.
Now to buy for Punisher the system that will give The opportunity to fly under a rob, another $ 30,000 is needed, and the drone is still out of business, " - explains the military current situation with Punisher drones. Civil Model, Drone type "wing" Matrice 300, had good capacity to scale the image from the camera. However, noticeable drones began to knock down and stuff the HR, so they ceased to be effective.
The types of drones on the front change very quickly, so the instructor emphasizes the importance of continuous learning. The next stage was the emergence of the now known Quadcopters of FPV (First Person View, drones with a look from the first person). "We have guys work with different FPV. In general, technological progress in the war is very felt and we need to be dynamic and constantly learn to effectively resist the enemy," the fighter said.
A professional UAV military pilot does not support the idea of picking drones at home. According to him, there is nothing wrong in such production and it can be useful, but because of the difference in the supply of components, various drones are inconvenient to work with. In general, drones coming from different places, different antennas and other equipment are incompatible. When the equipment is near it does not work with each other. "And this is a big problem.
Now you can find a lot of information, but the reality is such that people sit on the Internet for several months, look, buy, often for their money, comes not what is needed, processed until they get to the sample, who really works, ”the military says. Existing versatility harms competition in UAV with Russia. There the factories are built at the state level, the process of production of FPV-oules is standardized.