Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman: Russians now have high-tech FPV drones at the front

January 6 2024 8

The Russians are developing unmanned attack systems. FPV drones with machine vision, automatic target acquisition and a thermal imager have appeared in units of the Russian Armed Forces on the front line. Ukrainian serviceman Sergei Beskrestnov (pseudonym “Flash”), a communications, electronic warfare and intelligence specialist, spoke about this on his Telegram channel on January 6.

In his opinion, the mentioned technology still looks not fully worked out. But, most importantly, such developments are already at the forefront, and everything else will come with experience. Therefore, the relevant Ukrainian department needs to take appropriate measures so that it is not too late.

For the first time I saw with my own eyes an intercepted video from a Russian FPV with machine vision and automatic target acquisition. Moreover, in thermal imager mode. Everything is still raw, but already at the front. My friends from the Ministry of Digital Development, let’s speed up our decisions. We have enough development teams, we need to help them. For those who are not in the know. The pilot flies to the target and marks it from above, then the drone does everything itself. What's changing:

1. Electronic warfare domes are useless.
2. Experienced pilots are not needed.
3. Losing a picture near the ground is not scary (flight range from the ground increases by 2 times).
4. A target in motion is hit more accurately.
This all worries me very much. You understand the role of FPV in war

– summed up the Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.

It should be noted that the drones described above are the future, since they will be able to independently aim at a target at night in conditions of even strong opposition from enemy electronic warfare systems. We remind you that some time after the start of the SVO, the first kamikaze UAVs (loitering munitions) of the Lancet family appeared on the LBS, which were also considered crude. However, very little time passed and these “Lancets” were finalized, thanks to the real experience gained during combat operations. Now new Lancets and FPV drones with an auto-target acquisition system and other technological innovations have appeared at the front; they will go the same way and become no less effective means of destruction.

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Kuramori Reika

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6 January 2024 19: 32

If this is really the case, then if some Leuven is destroyed, it will be possible to fill the drones with phosphorus, drive in a swarm of 4-5 drones and burn dozens of Europeans at the same time. Electronic warfare will indeed work worse, since they suppress communication with the operator, but if the drone itself corrects the route, then the operator is no longer needed in the last section.

The same thing can be done when organizing an ambush; you can assign targets to a group of drones in advance and strike simultaneously. As a last resort, you can split the attacks into two waves.

Organizing the destruction of enemy officials will also become much easier, just point at the machine at the end of the working day, and then leave while the drone does its job
Elena123

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6 January 2024 22: 23

The fascists from Kyiv understand all this, but do our authorities understand the enormous importance of high-tech FPV drones for our troops? This is the best thing in drones today. We need at least 100 thousand of these.
1. svoroponov
  
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  12 February 2024 13: 20
  
  Well, if they are already at the front, then they understand. In addition, decent money has been allocated for this. And more than one company has already started making them. So there will be a minimum and even more, much more.
Blast

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7 January 2024 20: 28

Five years ago I was watching Military Review, and there was a review of anti-drone weapons. So, in the end, they say, Russia has everything, for all occasions, they say we jam and break any connection, drones will not get through! Even then, oh, how I disagreed... A smartphone recognizes a face using an application. Uploading a photo of some object is not difficult... and we get a drone that no longer needs communication with the operator, set the direction, the drone identified the object or what was required and worked, without any operator, and all that remains is to destroy it only mechanically, and this is already problematic , air defense is not enough for every little thing. Well, it’s very similar and is being embodied, and the war itself spurred everything on...
1. svoroponov
  
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  12 February 2024 13: 30
  
  At that time this was the case. But technology does not stand still.
  Again, if the electronic warfare is more powerful, then bringing the drone to the search zone will be problematic. In addition, there are systems that work to darken the optics until they lose their functionality. They will also come to the front line. In addition, there are microwave directed weapons. This simply destroys the performance of the electronics. And this will happen, and perhaps the first samples are already at the forefront of testing. It’s just that if some kind of weapon appears, then a device to counteract this appears. As a drone developer and knowing it thoroughly, you can guess how to destroy such a drone. What are his weak points and what affects them. Well, then, with what help to destroy it or what needs to be developed for this.
Aleksey Glotov

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8 January 2024 00: 18

First, this UAV needs to burn this "Flash."
Watching

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8 January 2024 14: 52

Reading between the lines, you get the feeling that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are ahead in this matter (modern weapons), otherwise why take the statements of their military as an assessment of quality?
1. svoroponov
  
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  12 February 2024 13: 43
  
  The APU is where it is. Just expert advice on a new development. He simply understands what and how. Yes, and there are specialists there, because once they came from one country, both scientific and industrial bases remained. They also have their own developments. True, they are used mainly by foreign ones. And those, even in America, were in the initial stages of development, since such a drone war was not expected.
  But they are actually already losing to us. There are few of our own production facilities or they are being destroyed. With the Western ones too, there are problems with components, strange as it may seem. China has limited them in some ways in terms of rare earth materials and their production of individual components has fallen and there is nowhere to get something like this.
  But here, if the development is promising, it is quickly tested at the front and if the reviews are positive, the developers receive everything: money, premises (if necessary), a machine base or anything else necessary, and components - materials (based on ours)