Israeli UAV Searcher was tested by Russian frosts
UAV flights were carried out in difficult weather conditions. The air temperature during the flights reached -28 degrees Celsius, which actually refuted the earlier speculations in the Russian press regarding the "heat-loving" Israeli drones.
“This is exactly the case when facts are better than words,” said one of the leading Russian experts in the field of UAVs, the chief editor of the UAV.RU website, Denis Fedutinov, “the fact that Israel is a country with a warm climate does not in itself mean that Israelis cannot create drones suitable for exploitation in Russia. "
According to Fedutinov, "devices of this class are capable of flying at altitudes up to 5-6 thousand meters, where negative temperatures often occur, which means that the UAV itself initially allows flights at low temperatures." “Perhaps, some modifications of the system as a whole could be required to prepare for the flight at sub-zero temperatures right at the start. If so, then they apparently were made successfully,” the expert summarizes. The production of the Searcher MkII (Outpost) and Bird Eye 400 UAVs from Israeli assembly kits in 2012 was established at UZGA in Yekaterinburg owned by Oboronprom.
Recall that in March 2011, at the Kubinka Air Force Base of Russia, an Israeli and Russian unmanned vehicle planned for use in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense was shown. Then the Israeli military leadership were shown the Israeli systems of the Bird Eye 400 mini-class and the medium-range Searcher MkII, as well as Russian-made mini-UAVs, selected based on comparative tests conducted in the autumn of the 2010 year. Moreover, if the Russian systems were exhibited only on a static platform, then the Israeli systems were also shown in action. The Searcher MkII UAV then flew about 6 hours in the vicinity of the Kubinka airfield at altitudes up to 5 km, transmitting the image to the ground control station in real time.
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