UAVs in Russian Armed Forces: News #2

Going from a fringe interest of artillery and AF recon to everyone wants one has been a good boost to their range of types and performance of systems...

They have certainly made a lot of progress, but there was a lot of progress to be made.

I find the range of specialist weapons to be rather interesting as it can also be used on light patrol helicopters and light attack helos like the Armed Ansat helicopter too.

Satellite communication system for Russian unmanned aerial vehicles

January 29th, 11:00 pm
As our blog has already reported , during a visit on January 27, 2022, by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, to the first specialized plant in Russia for the production of large-sized military unmanned aerial vehicles built by JSC Kronstadt in Dubna near Moscow, the Minister, among other things, was shown the first flight model of an unmanned aerial vehicle performed by Inohodets-BLA-S (Orion-S), equipped with satellite communication system equipment. Antenna of the antenna-feeder system "Accent-SM" of the satellite communication system on the manufactured in the workshop

The resource "Military Informant" in the social network "VKontakte" published an interesting material by Konstantin Mirza with details about the domestic product installed on this UAV for organizing mobile satellite communications (SOTM), developed and manufactured by the Smolensk JSC "Research Institute of Modern Telecommunication Technologies" ( Research Institute STT, plant "Edelweiss").

The UAV is equipped with small-sized satellite communication system equipment with the Accent-SM auto-tracking system, which has the following functionality:

- ensuring data transmission via satellite communication channels;

- provision of duplex transmission of data, text and voice information via satellite communication channels;
- installation on stationary and mobile objects (with an autonomous navigation system) with the ability to work on the move;

- the possibility of using a set of equipment as a "ground" and "on-board" part of the satellite communication system;

- guidance and auto-tracking of a given communication satellite during parking and movement (when installed on an object with an autonomous navigation system);

- interfacing with an aircraft autonomous navigation system via the ARINC-429 interface for the "autotrack" mode.


Characteristics:

Transmitter
- Operating frequency range: 13.7-14.5
- Power: 20W.
- Antenna system gain (dish): 34 dBi

Receiver
- Operating frequency range: 10.7-12.7
- Antenna system polarization: linear orthogonal

Modem
- Comtech EF CDM –570L(CDM –650) (stock version)
- Data rate up to 5 Mbps, typical rate 128 kbps.

Autotracking system
- Range of rotation angles in azimuth: Continuous (360deg x n)
- Range of rotation angles in elevation: -5 ... + 105 degrees
- Range of rotation angles along the polarization axis: -30 ... + 120 degrees
- Maximum turning speed on each axis: 20 deg/s
- Accuracy of auto-tracking on each axis: ±0.2 degrees
- Interfacing interface with autonomous navigation system: ARINC-429
- Interfacing interface with the control panel: Ethernet

General characteristics:
- Supply voltage: +24…29.4V
- Power consumption: 300W
- APS weight (without RPU): 27 kg
- Mirror speaker (cymbal) diameter: 500 mm
- Working temperature range: -40 ºС…+ 50 ºС
- Storage temperature range: -50 ºС ... + 70 ºС

Also, the Edelweiss plant (NII STT) supplies satellite communications equipment to the UZGA plant for installation on the advanced heavy UAV Altius-RU (Altair)







https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4476531.html

Not very clear.... is it a giant shot gun launching fragments or is it a net gun launching nets?

The Sirius strike drone upgraded for the Russian Navy will be capable of operating as a search and rescue and reconnaissance vehicle, the press office of Kronshtadt Company told TASS on Monday.

https://tass.com/defense/1398817

Orion attacks

More of a post for a thread not on UAVs in RuArmed forces news section?

Why is the altius not being used in Ukraine?

What makes you think they aren't using it?

I would say high altitude fake drones that are just cheap airframes and engines and fuel and nothing else flying around at 10km altitude would be useful.... the only systems that could reach them would be BUK and S-300 so wasting those missiles and also revealing their locations when they launch at such targets would be useful

But then fitting them with some weapons and optics and sensors so they know when they are under attack they can find the launchers themselves and release Glonass guided bombs to hit the launchers even if the drone gets shot down would be well worth it too.

Bit drones are less expendible than smaller ones but still more expendible than any manned aircraft.

its only in first delivery phase .... not ready for frontline action yet

Isn't it funny these people complaining the Putin is weak and should have done this in 2014 also blame Russia for not having enough drones this time around... not even knowing how many drones they have or are using of course...

Sounds like a good opportunity to test new equipment too... I would think they would have a few for operational testing at the very least.

This sort of drone would be used against all sorts of opponents so seeing how HATO try to deal with it will be useful too.

meanwhile over at Roscosmos
they are working on that Krylo-SV
that takes off as a rocket booster ..... flies back like a cruise missile
and lands like a UAV ...

I understand that to be a reusable solid rocket booster, so you have a launch pad with maybe four of these rockets linked together that fire and lift something up into the air... perhaps a sounding rocket or something with two stages that travels into space or a much longer distance, but once the first stabge boosters have burned out they don't just fall to the ground, they deploy wings and fly to a nearby airstrip and land like a UAV so they can be reused repeatedly and hopefully cheaply.

Not really a UAV, more a self recovering booster rocket.

Note on the Space Shuttle the solid rockets were not recovered but the huge fuel tank was but they found the costs of recovering it and repairing the impact damage created when it hit the ground, it would probably be cheaper to just use new ones each time.

The solid rocket boosters were enormously expensive too but there was no point in trying to reuse those.