Russia's first rescue drone Seadrone ME has been tested in the Kara Sea in Arctic conditions, TASS reports with reference to the developer company "Shooting from the air".
"According to the flight program, the drone made a series of sorties: with takeoffs and landings in semi-automatic and automatic modes on the water surface, landing on water when rescuing a person on the water (a dummy equipped with a search beacon was used for the exercises)," the report says.
The drone also worked out the ejection of a life jacket and a circle to a drowning person, flights with a loudspeaker and a searchlight, water samples were taken using a bathometer.
Flight tests were conducted jointly with Gazprom Nedra LLC, which is building two wells in the Kara Sea. Their goal was to check the performance of the unmanned vehicle in an aggressive environment. Thus, the wind speed was no more than 8 meters per second with gusts up to 15 meters per second, the air temperature was from minus five to zero degrees, humidity from 80 to 100 percent and waves with an average height of one to two meters.
The Seadrone ME drone has shown results and is capable of operating in northern latitudes, it can be operated in the Arctic in conditions of open sea and salt fog.
Earlier, Russia tested a marine version of the KUB-UAV drone. The barrage ammunition was developed by Zala Aero (part of the Kalashnikov Group of companies). The compact size of the complex allows you to launch barrage ammunition from landing boats.
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