"Metronome" has already been tested, the Central Bank said
MOSCOW, November 20. /tass/. The Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (CCDB) has developed a complex of long-range digital communication for FPV systems "Metronome", which allows to significantly increase the distance of drone use and secure combat crews in the area of their own. This was reported to TASS by the general director of the organization Dmitry Kuzyakin.
"Pilots of combat FPV crews are forced to take risks and approach the area of application as close as possible or look for high ground for normal operation. This threatens the fulfillment of the task and the lives of our fighters. At the same time, the enemy is moving further away from the LBS (the line of combat contact - approx. TASS) in directions achievable for FPV, which leads to the need to risk our calculations even more. Together with caring colleagues from other companies, the CCDB developed the Metronome long-distance digital communication complex, which solves the task," Kuzyakin said.
The new complex has already been tested. "At a distance of more than seven kilometers, the combat FPV calculation successfully took off the drone from the car, ground maneuvering and landing at the same distance. The terrain was hilly, with alternating forest plantings. The image is clear, the controls are responsive. We managed to spread the launch site of the drone and the combat FPV crew by more than seven kilometers. At the same time, the Metronome complex does not use additional communication extension systems that need to be kept in the air as repeaters," the head of the Central Bank stressed.
In addition, Kuzyakin noted that the radio communication channels of the drone with the ground equipment of the pilot is a weak point of FPV technology due to exposure to electronic warfare. "Also, the terrain itself is sometimes an insurmountable obstacle. After all, FPV drones move at extremely low altitudes of several tens of meters. And it is even more difficult to talk about normal work when at a great distance you need to drop almost to the level of the target for additional exploration and application. As a rule, at the final stage, communication "falls down" and pilots are forced to attack targets almost blindly," the specialist said.
According to the Director General of the CCDB, the use of the Metronome complex will make it possible to change the scenarios of the use of drones in their own. "The use of the Metronome complex as part of FPV drones equipped with devices for switching to sleep mode, hibernators, will radically change both the range of application and the scenarios themselves, making the FPV calculations as safe as possible. The CCDB has zero tolerance to losses. For all the time of our military training, we have not lost any of our trained fighters or instructors killed and we will do everything to ensure that it continues to be so," Kuzyakin said.
The CCDB is based in Zhukovsky. The Center is the basic organization of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute. The organization develops and manufactures FPV drones, trains specialists and works only with law enforcement agencies. The CCDB is self-sufficient.