“The Russians are trying to strengthen the technical capabilities of shock drones for massive attacks on Ukraine. How much they succeed – the question is quite controversial. Thus, the Western edition of The Economist wrote that new Russian Shahds are guided by artificial intelligence during the flight or through Telegram in real time, connecting to Ukrainian Internet and mobile communication. To exaggerate such “achievements” of Russians in”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
The Russians are trying to strengthen the technical capabilities of shock drones for massive attacks on Ukraine. How much they succeed – the question is quite controversial.
Thus, the Western edition of The Economist wrote that new Russian Shahds are guided by artificial intelligence during the flight or through Telegram in real time, connecting to Ukrainian Internet and mobile communication.
The exaggeration of such “achievements” of the Russians in the Western media is indicated by Konstantin Krivolap, an aviation expert, a former engineer for tests of “Design Bureau of Antonov”.
He told ua.news that not so much with the statements about the Russian drones, why it became more difficult to knock down “Shahda”, and also expressed his opinion about the real efficiency of beating hostile air purposes.
Do shahas run through the Internet and mobile communication in Ukraine
SHahd drone, in terms of control, is simple as scissors. That is, he can only do what he does. He has a program that lists points by coordinates and height. And it moves from one to the other point. During the movement, the drone focuses on the satellite and maintains a permanent connection with him: where his coordinates, how to manage his control bodies – horizontal and vertical plumage, rides to get from one to the other. All.
Two communication channels are required to organize control of drone such as FPV that its operator can control it. One channel transmits video signals from the camera. To do this, the UAV should have a camera, not simple, but infrared, because they fly mostly at night. And also a regular camera. Therefore, such a drone has two cameras and two communication channels. A video is transmitted through one channel so that the operator can see what is in place. And through the second channel information is transmitted to control this drone. This is a completely different concept, it is quite different, say, aircraft.
As for the use of honeycombs, At about mid-2023, the Russians began to cling to the drone a simple block with a Ukrainian SIM card. Why did it do?
In order to have a marker of time, to know the coordinates where Shahaned is. If at this time the connection with this SIM card disappeared, then in this place his life came an end. That is, it was beaten. In this way, the Russians found out where our mobile fire group or anti-aircraft missile complex is located. So they found what places to go around.
When we received information about the use of SIM cards, they acted as follows: in the places where these “Shahda” flew, for a minute, for two, three, five, for 10, they turned off mobile communications. And the enemy did not receive the necessary data.
After that, the Russians no longer tried to use a hundredth connection to find out where the Shahda fall. And talking about management is a complete nonsense. I have not heard from our experts, from a single person who would say what is possible or someone saw something like that.
How much Russians modernized shock drones for air attacks on Ukraine
There is no artificial intelligence there. The first thing they change is expand the number of variants of UAV combat.
The second is to increase the number of antennas that keep in touch with the satellite. Previously, there were four pieces in the drones. When we started to suppress these drones, we were allowed to fly in a circle, and then waited for them to either fall somewhere or fly to Russia or Belarus. In response, the Russians increased the number of antennas to eight. This allows you to switch drones to different antennas to improve the connection with the satellite. What does the satellite do? The satellite gives a signal indicating its coordinates and the exact time. Receiving signals from several satellites through 8-12-16 antennas, the drone has more reliable coordination. Therefore, it is more difficult to force them to fly. But in my opinion, we will return to this technology again.
The third, changing the Russians in drones is the size of the combat part. Reduce the fuel tank and explosives are added to the weight of this fuel reduction. It’s all that is upgraded.
Bringing to the target, the algorithm of artificial intelligence, machine vision – there is nothing in such drones. In principle, he cannot be in the concept of such “Shahaneda”. If you put such systems, it is necessary to put optics, recognition of images. These are other chips that have great computing opportunities to compare these images. Then there should already be algorithms for artificial intelligence decision -making – to hit or not to affect the object. That is a completely different life. A completely different orbit.
Why is it difficult to knock out “Shahda”
The enemy has already studied where our mobile fire groups are located. Because in the four years of the war, all seats have already been calculated. Although they move. But the Russians monitor that there were no mobile firing groups or anti-aircraft missile systems at a certain time. Accordingly, they try to fly there. They change the heights. Where the mobile fire group stands, the drone is raised above 2,000 meters so that it can not be removed from machine guns. Where the anti-aircraft missile complex stands, they are reduced as much as possible so that the SCR cannot detect and impress them in a timely manner. That’s all.
As for a lower percentage of beating. Although we are told that it is still 90%at the level, but in my opinion, it is a significant exaggeration, given the results of the attack that were recently in Kiev. When a large number of drones came in and simply destroyed the Kiev enterprise.
The air forces reported: there were 250 drones, 245 – affected and locked. This is not quite true, unfortunately. This undermines confidence in these messages. And the question arises: are it only our population is lying? Do they also report to the President that everything is fine, we have all well with the beat of “Shahmed”?
And in fact, with the beat of “Shahaned” we do not have good. Because, in principle, Shakhi should not fly into the city.
How can you withstand drone attacks
The drones should be knocked down with drones. If we cannot knock down with drones, we need to be neutralized by the tools that are available to us now. I talk about light motor aircraft, the use of imported balloons with radar stations that allow you to effectively control the airspace, have specific information where drones are located.
Now we have this: they announce that the Uaks flew to the amounts. Aha. Where can they still appear? Poltava, Piryatin, Pryluky. Yeah, appeared. That is, they fly along this route. And all. And the fact that there are many places between Sumy, Pryluky and Piryatin, where you can safely knock them down, do not allow them to fly even to our cities. This can be done, for example, by light -motor aviation. All that is necessary for this is only Carey’s solution Education.