New reconnaissance drone "Merlin-BP" developed in Russia

A new reconnaissance drone "Merlin-BP" has been developed in Russia; the developer is the Smolensk Scientific Research Institute of Modern Telecommunication Technologies.

The reconnaissance UAV "Merlin-VR" is capable of conducting reconnaissance in automatic and semi-automatic modes for 10 hours at an altitude of up to 5 km. Payload drone is 6,5 kg, it is capable of carrying various reconnaissance equipment. The engine is hybrid.

The task of the UAV "Merlin-VR" is called the detection and observation of structures and objects at any time of the day, under various weather conditions, including under snow cover and behind camouflage nets, as well as the assessment of the visibility of objects.

The drone was demonstrated to the military, as well as to representatives of the military-industrial complex of Russia. The possibility of carrying out full-fledged tests is currently being considered.

Note that UAV developers from the Smolensk Research Institute of Modern Telecommunication Technologies have previously presented a whole aviation unmanned reconnaissance complex "Filibuster". The complex consisted of two Merlin-21BM drones and a mobile control center based on a KamAZ vehicle.

According to the developers, the Merlin-BP UAV is a further development of the Merlin-21BM. The new drone has a large size, and, accordingly, a large load, flight altitude and range.

Comments

[Flooding]

the only Merlin I know is a cute old man from the good old cartoon "Sword in the Stone"
knew how to turn into squirrels, birds
is it you, old man?
I don't recognize in makeup

[serg.shishkov2015]

And I have it from the book * Monday starts on Saturday *!

[Flooding]

Quote: serg.shishkov2015

And I have it from the book * Monday starts on Saturday *!

I didn't read everything from the Strugatskys
but with children I had to review all worthwhile films

[serg.shishkov2015]

-It's Merlin!
-Get him in the neck!
-With pleasure!
-Nakhal!

[Flooding]

Quote: serg.shishkov2015

-It's Merlin!
-Get him in the neck!
-With pleasure!
-Nakhal!

for me the Strugatskys are a Picnic and a Hotel
at that time they read what could be obtained in paper

[serg.shishkov2015]

The very beginning of the 80s, In one book- * It's hard to be a god * and this thing, I don't remember the year of publication, was quite small, about 10 years, probably. Mom worked as a bookbinder in the city library, she managed to read a lot of things, both at her work and at home. Some almanacs of adventures and fiction - I don't remember the name at all - I first read * The Last War *, * The Secret Fairway * and the story of the North of Gansovsky * The Master of the Bay * * The Last War * - in the original version - with a literary competition for * Segezha *, the main * writer * - kitchen robot Grishka

[Flooding]

Quote: serg.shishkov2015

Mom worked as a bookbinder in the city library

scarce books instead of food shortages - cervelat, pastroma and Moscow.
for a young inquisitive mind, that's it.

how the shabby finds of the Seeker delighted me! Roman newspaper! Foreign literature!

[Cat]

review all worthwhile films

By the way, according to the Strugatskys, there are no worthwhile films. Unless, of course, you are a fanatical fan of Tarkovsky or Bondarchuk

[Flooding]

Quote: Gato

By the way, according to the Strugatskys, there are no worthwhile films.

"Stalker" is difficult to attribute to the category of unworthy films
regardless of personal attitude to the work of Tarkovsky

[dauria]

"Stalker" is difficult to attribute to the category of unworthy films

"Stalker" can hardly be attributed to the Strugatskys. Even the intermediate scenario "Desire Machine" is very far from "Picnic". Rather, the Strugatskys completely rewrote everything "under the dictation" of Tarkovsky.

[Flooding]

- When he asked you for permission to film Roadside Picnic, did you and your brother immediately agree?

- Tarkovsky did not ask us for permission. He offered cooperation. And we agreed right away, because we immediately realized that we would have to work with a genius, which means we would have to fulfill his requirements. Nine scenarios, and only once or twice did we manage to defend our position. However, we convinced him of the main thing: the world of the film should be realistic, and the Miracle should only be felt as a “skin”, not be conspicuous.

- Is the film version more philosophical than the book?

“They are too different to compare. The story is about the fact that we do not know why we exist. And the movie is about the fact that life without a saint in the soul is not life at all.

[Eragon]

Quote: Gato

review all worthwhile films

By the way, according to the Strugatskys, there are no worthwhile films. Unless, of course, you are a fanatical fan of Tarkovsky or Bondarchuk

"Inhabited Island" is filmed well. Especially after watching, I flipped through the book (I read it 25 years ago) - the topic is fully disclosed.

[Cat]

I don’t know ... I don’t want to argue about the taste of markers.
In general, it would be nice to film "The Beetle in the Anthill" - as the third part.

[Catfish]

Great magician Merlin - in the British cycle of legends, mentor and adviser to King Arthur, and also earlier to his father Uther and King Vortigern.

It's a little strange to see such a name on our weapon.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Merlin British Petroleum?

[Sling cutter]

Most likely, the propulsion unit is imported.
Hybrid engines are not produced in the Russian Federation along the way.

[barclay]

So I suspect that the engine is imported, because the article does not say anything suspiciously about this.

[Pilot]

Yes, where do their hybrids come from if there are no ordinary gasoline small motors, people screw Chinese gasoline or motorcycle machines onto their homemade equipment. Well, for dessert on the topic .. :
The Hurricanes and most of the Spitfires, all the Mosquito and almost all the Lancaster, flew with the engines of the Merlin family, pulling the strap of the unsuccessful start of the war of the Whitleys, Battles, Defiants and Fulmaras. It was "Merlin", aka licensed American "Packard" V-1650, that turned a nondescript skate, which was "Mustang" with "Allison", into the real pride of the US Air Force.

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Sea Cat

It's a little strange to see such a name on our weapon.

Can you think of a name with an eye to export? And we already have a UAV of this dimension.

[Flooding]

Quote: Polite Elk

Can you think of a name with an eye to export?

such good abroad in bulk

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Flood

such good abroad in bulk

And suddenly the gray Merlin will take, and gallop everyone.

[Peak]

Quote: Sea Cat

It's a little strange to see such a name on our weapon.

BUT "aviation unmanned reconnaissance complex "Filibuster" "???

[Catfish]

No, well, pirates, it's still something international, world heritage, so to speak.

[novel66]

we called it ushkuyniki

[Peak]

Quote: novel xnumx

we called it ushkuyniki

"Ushkuyniki" is a very limited definition for the area of ​​use, but throughout Russia - Russia, it was more generally accepted - "dashing people" or "tat" ("tati").

[Peak]

Quote: Sea Cat

No, well, pirates, it's still something international, world heritage, so to speak.

If we follow this logic, then, for example, the artillery "flower series" should have been called botanical Latin names

"Acacia" - Acacia , "Hyacinth" - Hyacinthus , and "Carnation" - Dianthus

[Catfish]

And whatever you call it, it does not change the essence of the matter, "Carnation" will still be a nail, even in Latin, at least call it in Yiddish.

[Peak]

Quote: Sea Cat

And whatever you call it, it does not change the essence of the matter, "Carnation" will still be nailing, even in Latin, at least call it in Yiddish

So SHO if tomorrow "non-brother neighbors"will switch to the Latin alphabet - then nothing, norms ?

They are there their Crimean Tatars, who are not at all in Crimea , translated into Latin ...

[Catfish]

Well, to hell with them, we do not care.

[Peak]

Quote: Sea Cat

Well, to hell with them, we do not care.

Of course...

But here similar , almost gave up on Tatarstan in "blessed 90s", there too, with" innocent latin "it all began.

[serg.shishkov2015]

Why did we enter the Biological Faculty?
Why were the parents allowed here?
It would be better if we didn’t know the grief!
Latin, would not be clogged brains!

[Egoza]

Quote: Sea Cat

It's a little strange to see such a name on our weapon.

That's it! According to legend, Merlin himself finished badly! The witch Morgana fooled him, took all the magic and he was left to die without strength.
"Filibuster"! - is also not our name. And what in Russia, if it is so necessary, fashionable, does it lack its own characters? Would call something Serpent Gorynych or Dashing one-eyed and let them puzzle over the performance characteristics in the west! )))

[Catfish]

"Serpent Gorynych" seems to be already there, but "Dashing One-Eyed" is very good, from the developers of new systems you are owed for the idea.

[alch3mist]

"Serpent Gorynych" seems to be already there, but "Dashing One-Eyed" is very good, from the developers of new systems you are owed for the idea.

"Dashing One-Eyed" is suitable for a laser system, and for an electronic suppression system, "Cat Bayun" is very suitable

[knn54]

- The new drone has a great ... flight altitude and range.
Before the Chinese WZ-7, practically put into service (serial production started), it still grows and grows.

[Flooding]

Quote: knn54

The new drone has a great ... flight altitude and range.

the previous Foibustier had a 3 km ceiling
this model has 5 km

[zwlad]

The British engine in WWII was also called that.
But, damn it, there was no Russian name for a Russian drone?
What an admiration for everything foreign.

[nnm]

It is, of course, good that industry and science are trying to move forward. But it seems that the Ministry of Defense should analyze everything well, predict and issue technical specifications for development itself, and not vice versa. Otherwise, it turns out not system planning and work, but a competition of artistic self-activity.

[bar]

Quote: nnm

The Ministry of Defense should analyze everything well, predict and issue technical specifications for the development itself.

To analyze / predict and give at least some initial information for thought. And it is not taken from the ceiling, but on the basis of preliminary research and development, often proactive.

[nnm]

Do you think that the experience of more than one decade of creating domestic UAVs, the analysis of their use in recent years around the world is not enough to create technical specifications for UAVs with an autonomy of 10 hours and a payload of 6.5 kg?
I can't even imagine how the Ministry of Defense used to issue TK at the first stages for the Strategic Missile Forces ..

[bar]

Quote: nnm

You believe that the experience of more than one decade of creating domestic UAVs, the analysis of their use in recent years around the world is not enough

The "experience of more than one decade" did not appear from scratch by order of the military; And about the developments "all over the world" I will not say anything, "the whole world" does not particularly share with us.

Quote: nnm

I can't even imagine how the Ministry of Defense used to issue TK at the first stages for the Strategic Missile Forces

Long before the Ministry of Defense issued the first TK, the same GIRD already existed. And, by the way, for some reason she was not particularly interesting to the Moscow Region, otherwise Korolev, Glushko, etc. would not have been driven out for Mozhai. Apparently, at the first stages of the Ministry of Defense, it was still not far-sighted enough to immediately issue TK for the Strategic Missile Forces.

[serg.shishkov2015]

New is good! why is the name not ours?

[Flooding]

Quote: serg.shishkov2015

New is good! why is the name not ours?

the language becomes scarce before our eyes
old words are forgotten
new ones helpfully offer the English-language information environment for young people

[carstorm 11]

Are you talking about the Strugatskys? And then in the story of Merlin, the image was promoted. They completely forgot about the famous Russian magicians) Merlin is an image. Which is the same in Russian or even in Chinese) Everyone is recognizable and understandable) Moreover, how do we know what prompted such a name? Maybe so the designer's favorite dog was called a pancake)

[Flooding]

Quote: carstorm 11

Are you talking about the Strugatskys?

do young people now read the Strugatskys?
no, I'm not talking about the Strugatskys
but about the modern information environment

Quote: carstorm 11

Merlin is an image

which is not being shaped by literature now
but cinema and the internet

[carstorm 11]

Read) As for the image of Merlin specifically, it has already taken place. Its formation, even through cinema or the Internet, in itself only promotes it. Mark Twain began to change something in him. And quite successfully. And nothing terrible happened)

[Flooding]

Quote: carstorm 11

Its formation, even through cinema or the Internet, in itself only promotes it.

yes you are a connoisseur of contemporary art

[carstorm 11]

Anyone. If I like it. I quite normally combine re-reading for example Nabokov's Lord Officers and watching Marvel films. I'm crazy about Nolan's films and at the same time I like to watch Soviet comedies) And I don't see anything strange in this.

[Flooding]

Quote: carstorm 11

I quite normally combine re-reading for example Nabokov Lord Officers and watching Marvel films

the marvel universe is a bestiary of some freaks
and cinema from marvel is a fat point in the victory of money-grubbing over art
but the audience likes it, otherwise they wouldn’t watch
business always mirrors the need of today's buyer
and, alas, affects the needs of tomorrow's buyer
I really hope that we pass the lower point of the sinusoid

[carstorm 11]

In the same way, our children will annoy their own) I am not retrograde at all) I accept the new calmly. Otherwise we'll get to the point where we call the smartphone the device of the devil) It's just an entertaining movie) Good wins over evil and all that)

[Flooding]

Quote: carstorm 11

I'm not retrograde at all

drawing boundaries is the hardest part
where white turns gray and gray turns black?
everyone is free to decide for himself
but only for myself
but when it comes to the system, you have to outline the boundaries and give estimates. the stakes are too high and the consequences are great

Quote: carstorm 11

Otherwise we'll get to the point where we call the smartphone the device of the devil

I cannot trace this parallel between consumer goods from the film business and technological progress
"let's call the smartphone a devilish product. Down with retrograde" - groaned another representative of the postmodern belch, nailing his testicles to the frontal place
are you talking about this?

[carstorm 11]

Rather, that most of the information comes from it))))

[Flooding]

Quote: carstorm 11

Rather, that most of the information comes from it))))

just a remedy
which can be used both for one and for other purposes

[Nexcom]

interesting engine is ours there? or Chinese?
otherwise this information is modestly omitted.

PS this is not a provocative question, it is a technical interest.

[Flooding]

Quote: Nexcom

interesting engine is ours there? or Chinese?
otherwise this information is modestly omitted.

the manufacturer is silent
https://www.niistt.ru/products/uav.aspx

[Nexcom]

Thanks for the link. Keep the plus.

PS That's why I asked. Well, since there is a modest silence, it is most likely that a Chinese clone of some kind of European version. As an option - Austrian (Austrians even sell small engines to us in the Urals at UZGA, and drones are also riveted there).
It's just that if it was our own, it would most likely be reported with great fanfare.

[rocket757]

Russia has developed a new reconnaissance drone "Merlin-BP"

Shaw for the title? Not Russians, or what?

[Flooding]

Quote: rocket757

Shaw for the title? Not Russians, or what?

remember the old Soviet illustrations of our Russian merlin?

Tell me, sorcerer, favorite of the gods ...

[rocket757]

So we have enough of our own, primordial, themes for the name ... a magician, sorcerer, other national motives.
So it's not about the names, but national, their motives raise the spirit, and it is more understandable, for anyone who created it and why.

[Galina Bazhenova]

Quote: serg.shishkov2015

New is good! why is the name not ours?

Probably because many leaders continue to see themselves in the global world system.

[Pilot]

Yes, everything is as usual - blah-blah-blah-developed in Russia. From Chinese components, and maybe something from Western adversaries they took, except for the name ..
,, abroad will help us ,, (scrap)

[Galina Bazhenova]

Maybe you are right about something. I still want to buy electronic gadgets, ours, Russian-made, no. Chinese only.

[Nikolaevich I]

Something our developers were drawn to "not our" names! Merlin ... Gremlin ...! Down with the pernicious influence of the West!

Baba Yaga is against!

[Wedmak]

Give a few of them to Lisa-Alert - that's where there would be great civilian use.

[svp67]

at an altitude of up to 5 km.

Unfortunately, this is not the best characteristic, which means that this UAV will be in the zone of destruction of most anti-aircraft weapons. Now they are trying to ensure UAV walking at altitudes up to 6 km, which dramatically increases the chances of survival

[DenVB]

For those who are surprised by the name. You will be surprised, but Merlin is a Russian surname. If you don't believe me, check it out on any social network. And once there was a noble family like this - the Merlins.

[Barberry25]

little information .. but in fact one percent of its complement is important .. if the engine and the rest are our own, then this is very cool ... because 6,5 kilograms of load is more than Orlan-10, in fact there is a real opportunity to create a light reconnaissance UAV with strike weapons on board