Shown is footage of the Aeroprakt A-22 VSU light aircraft converted into a UAV

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), in addition to conventional unmanned aerial vehicles, also use those converted into Drones light aircraft. This follows from footage published on the Internet showing an Aeroprakt A-22 VSU light aircraft converted into a UAV.

As the source notes, this UAV was armed aviation OFAB-100 bomb and was equipped with an OES - optical-electronic system. It is advisable to convert a light aircraft into a drone in order to ensure flight range. In this case, the upgraded drone can fly over a greater distance and then strike the selected target.

Now Ukrainian formations are increasingly attacking the territory of the Russian Federation with the help of unmanned aircraft. One of the main goals of the Kyiv regime, which is more of an image issue than of practical military significance, is to increase the strike range of its unmanned aircraft. To achieve this, it is necessary to increase the flight range of the UAV.

Note that if previously the bulk of Ukrainian UAV attacks occurred in border regions such as the Belgorod or Kursk regions of the Russian Federation, now Ukrainian drones They even reach such remote Russian regions as Mordovia or Tatarstan. This circumstance must be taken into account when improving the combat and organizational capabilities of the air defense forces of the Russian Federation.

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[andrey martov]

Eh, my mother told me to take the Far Eastern hectare in Birobidzhan. . .

[Victor Alien]

The most hilarious region is the Jewish Autonomous Region, where there are less than a thousand Jews left out of almost 150.000... The most Russian region in fact. And their flag is now in the right color in fact. For painting the stairs in such a way in some city in the Russian Federation, they were charged with propaganda, which is not necessary...

[SovAr238A]

Historical retrospective.
Where are those dozens of commentators, such as “Operator”, “Romario Agro” and other evil spirits who, before the SVO, enthusiastically poured out defamations about Over-the-Horizon Radars that have no analogues in the world???
Which allegedly detect tennis balls on takeoff as far as 5000 km away and will not allow anyone to take off unnoticed and fly in our direction?
Where are they all now?

[Kotofeich]

Quote: SovAr238A

Where are they all now?

Where they were. Remember Rust. He was seen, but not shot down. Why?...

[Victor Alien]

So this is... the responsibility of air defense on the border, this is the same thing, you need to report to Moscow, there to create a commission on what to do. This is not a guard at a weapons depot, he didn’t answer the call sign and didn’t stop, stupidly shot him and that’s it. I came across a story - a drunken demobilizer at the entrance to the unit did not show his documents to the young man, he simply caught a bullet from a guard. And nothing. The charter is the charter. Especially the guard. And now it’s a sieve, not borders.

[Lionnvrsk]

Quote: SovAr238A

"Romario Agro"

If my memory serves me correctly, the nickname was Romario ARGO

[Smoked]

It would be better to explain in simple language to an ordinary person why this multi-meter crap is as inconspicuous as, say, a meter-long “geranium”, etc., for air defense. People in general think that air defense sees everything and can do everything.

[Nexcom]

So obviously this crap, as you deigned to put it, is probably made of plastic and other low-reflective materials, again the flight altitude is low. That's probably why the radars don't see it.... It's probably only the engine that gives a heat signature. IMHO.

PS Rust also leaked onto Red Square at one time. Low flight altitude - navigated by roads. They couldn't detect it right away. And when they spotted it, they thought it was some of our people from the flying club. So they clicked.

[Smoked]

This is how it should be written in relation to news about such things and not a word in the text above. I’m aware of the nuances and every time I’m surprised when others are surprised. We are for information literacy and all that?!

[2al]

Well, how many of “ours” were flying through the skies of the USSR in Cessnas?

[Nexcom]

Radars did not indicate that it was a Cessna. They suspected that something was wrong when they couldn’t contact him by radio and when they realized that he was heading towards Moscow.

And for the radar, it’s probably a Cessna, a Yak-18 or a Yak -52 - it’s all the same......
Airplanes approximately identical in size and reflectivity

[2al]

He was visually observed; Rust wrote in his memoirs that when approaching the Moscow region, a fighter flew over him. Overall the story is certainly enchanting.
“Very soon, Rust’s plane falls on the radars of Soviet air defenses. Then it is detected visually. The MiG-23 flies over it several times and returns to the airfield. After the terrible incident with the Korean Boeing, shot down by our fighters over Sakhalin in 1983, aviation was ordered not to fly civilian aircraft In addition, the Chicago Convention, which it signed, calls on the USSR to shoot down.
Then Rust is frankly lucky, and our air defense several times accidentally assigns him the code number “us” in the “friend or foe” system, and he flies safely to Moscow. Over the capital, it is mistaken for a Soviet light aircraft that violated air traffic rules, and this fact is not taken into account."

[Alexey RA]

Quote: Nexcom

So obviously this crap, as you deigned to put it, is probably made of plastic and other low-reflective materials

Nope. Aunt Vika slanders that:

Design all-metal, except for the engine hood, fender fairings and wheel fairings, made of plastic. The landing gear is tricycle, non-retractable, in fairings, with a controlled front strut. The wing has fabric covering.

It seems to me that the problem is different:

Cruising speed: 130 km / h

When the SDC system is operating, the Doppler frequency shift of the reflected signal for a target at such a speed may be below the threshold - and the signal is simply eliminated as a reflection from the terrain.

[voyaka uh]

This aircraft has a large ESR. Its form is "anti-stealth". Solid right angles
And round shapes.
And it should be easily detected by radar. If they are.
But air defense is not continuous. There are corridors through which drones pass,
cruise missiles.

[Victor Alien]

But I don’t understand about the plane shot down in Syria on the border with Turkey - as they filmed the movie, it seems like the combat aircraft on combat missions and air defense did not see that there was someone else’s combat aircraft in the same area?! As in the Second World War, we saw with our eyes that we were already on our tail and let’s run away. Where were all the radars, both on the ground and on airplanes?! Some kind of madhouse. Like on an empty road, someone suddenly overtakes you, but you didn’t see anyone driving behind you at all.

[rotmistr60]

Light aircraft converted into drones are also used

But somewhere these planes are assembled and somewhere they are based. Food for thought.

[Nexcom]

The Internet reports that they are also collected in Poland, in Krakow. A little over a thousand pieces were produced in total. Developed in 1996. Rotax engine, 580 horsepower. The range on one refueling when fully loaded is 1999 km. Start of flight operation - XNUMX

[rocket757]

Detecting a flying object, especially such a large one, is not so difficult... the main thing is to take countermeasures correctly and promptly.
In general, a unified automated control, recognition and response system?
The only way.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: rocket757

Detecting a flying object, especially such a large one, is not so difficult... the main thing is to take countermeasures correctly and promptly.

But then they will raise a squeal that “Russia is knocking down light airplanes of civilians that have gone astray.” And Ukraine and the Western media don’t care whether there was a pilot there or what they did to him. They will also remember Rust. Where would we be without the “bloody imperial legacy of the Soviet Union”?

[rocket757]

Honestly, does anyone else here pay attention to the screams/screams from behind the hill?
There is no talk about any liberal race with... it’s clear about whom, it’s their guano, they don’t care either.

[Horon]

Honestly, does anyone else here pay attention to the screams/screams from behind the hill?

If they hadn’t addressed it, then perhaps things wouldn’t have come to fruition.

[rocket757]

Your remark is not indisputable, but it could also be so.
To say that the situation has changed, has changed... here, too, not everything is clear, but in some directions, aspects, it is no longer the same as two... five years ago.
They hope that the process has started and cannot be stopped.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: rocket757

Honestly, does anyone else here pay attention to the screams/screams from behind the hill?
There is no talk about any liberal race with... it’s clear about whom, it’s their guano, they don’t care either.

You, Victor, are not paying attention. I don't pay.
But in the West, it’s not what they convert in Ukraine - they firmly believe. Yes, and we have enough of them.

Recently I told you here how my niece at school, a Russian girl from our Russian family, when the teacher asked the children at school to draw our National Flag, she drew the flag of Ukraine. It begs the question - what are the parents of this little girl talking about at home? The school principal had this question for the girl’s dad. The competent authorities do not.
And how many such “dads” are there in Russia - both ours and those who “came in large numbers” after 2014? And are they all limited to conversations at home?

[rocket757]

Alas, children/teenagers, this is an area of ​​increased attention for ALL OF US and it is very sad and dangerous that statesmen are engaged in all sorts of bullshit, instead of bringing the LEGISLATIVE, LEGAL FRAMEWORK to the required level in the field of protecting our statehood!!!
It would be easier for us, everyone who cares for the country in their souls, and does not formally fulfill their civic duties.
We need to defend ourselves with all our might, in all directions... attack wherever we can and where necessary!
No one but us, this is not even a motto, it is a necessity for our survival!

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: rocket757

It would be easier for us, everyone who cares for the country in their souls, and does not formally fulfill their civic duties.

I always tell my employees, when someone is working poorly - everyone, from my deputies to a simple rafter, what my father told me: “Don’t like the work? Is it hard? The salary doesn’t suit you? Quit and go sell oil... "

If only everyone did at least what they were supposed to do according to their position... At least formally, but in full and not for reporting purposes, but for it to work, they would have lived under communism long ago...

[rocket757]

There are no ideal people, you have to build those who exist.
If it’s built in, they get the job done, oh well... if they interfere, the conversation is short... on the way out and that’s it.

[2al]

The photo does not show the most important thing - communication equipment.

[Horon]

The photo does not show the most important thing - communication equipment.

The photo shows the most important thing that the EOS installed on the plane is clearly not of Ukrainian origin.

[Nexcom]

Of course not Ukrainian. And what do the kakels themselves produce from such devices? Their owners obviously supply them with this - don’t go to a fortune teller.

[nik-mazur]

footage published on the Internet depicting a light-engine aircraft Aeroprakt A-22 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces converted into a UAV ... Ukrainian drones even reach such remote Russian regions as Mordovia or Tatarstan

This is what I don’t understand: why is this unmanned miracle of a gloomy Ukrainian genius lying upside down somewhere in the middle of the arable land? Who landed it like that or was it itself? And where is it? Is this already Mordovia and Tatarstan or is it still Ukraine?