Beat easier than ShahED-136: The expert told why the Armed Forces is not threatened with unmanned Termit (video)

Military analyst Alexander Kovalenko told this in an interview with focus. In general, according to him, the development of this UAV began in 2016 at the NGO "Arrow" and the drone was presented as a competitor as a competitor with Western samples of drones of helicopter type. "After 7 years, it was possible to collect a dozen similar machines of varying degrees of readiness," emphasizes the military analyst Alexander Kovalenko.

"This indicates a low level of preparation for mass production of such devices. " It is currently known that the average speed of Termititis is about 90 km/g, and in flight it can last up to 6 hours, says the expert. The main element of helicopter type UAV is the leading C-8L accuracy missiles, which are hit by 6 km, and the unmanned helicopter has 3 such missiles on board. It sounds good, but Alexander Kovalenko emphasizes that this type of unmanned vehicles has many disadvantages.

According to the analyst, at a weight of 450 kg, a large size and speed, which is twice less than the speed of ShahED-136, this unit will be a easy target for Ukrainian air defense, even for small mobile groups with MSRCs. The analyst emphasizes that even ShahED-136 is not used by Russians on the front, because the collision line is insanely saturated with various air defense means, radio electronic fighting systems. There, such drones become a slight target.

According to the expert, this helicopter is more developed in order to replace the KA-52 shock helicopter in the distant future. The Russians now have great losses of this high quality shock helicopter, which the occupiers had to be used frequently.

Therefore, the army of the Russian Federation requires cheaper and mass analogues of combat helicopters and tries to create them, but, according to the analyst, they have a cheap option, but at the same time the quality and technical capabilities of the apparatus suffers greatly. That is, there is no need to talk about some serious danger from such machines for the Armed Forces. Earlier, Focus reported that the Armed Forces showed the work of Vampire drones under Bakhmut.