Еще в начале 90-х Швейцария этим занималась, так себе военная страна. Но по бюджету страна вполне военная, как Австрия или Нидерланды.
Если б я покупала пушку, то купила бы голандскую (АПС - говно), если б более серьезный ствол, то австрийский, Stayr.

Как воздух свободы?
Молодечно? Была я там.
Будет время, сгоняйте на Вилейское водохранилище, или вобще на Нарочь. Места там феерические.

>...на Нарочь. Места там феерические

Предпочитаю Нарочь летом:).

>...Еще в начале 90-х...

1990 год. Завершены Государственные испытания комплекса "Строй-П" с ДПЛА "Пчела". Главный конструктор Н.В.Чистяков:



Уж не швейцарам нас учить, правда? Так себе военная держава:).

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А как расшифровывается ДПЛА?
По "пчеле".. видел материал по использованию его в Чечне, картинка была откровенно неважная.
Сама же идея же малогабаритного разведчика и корректировщика огня непререкаема.

Что такое ДПЛА уже прочитал :-). Просто плохо ещё ориентируюсь в ЖЖ.
А на счёт картинки. Сейчас она нужна уже цифровая, с комп. обработкой изображения, чтобы выявить например движущийся объект на склона горы, точная их координатная привязка и..
"За нашу Родину Огонь! Огонь!" т.е. электроника на 90%.

И на основании чего эти требования сформированы? И откуда взялось именно 90%? :)

Да это моё инженерное мЫшление.
Точная привязка территории Чечни и разведка - 99,9 успеха. Таки да :-)

Время слишком мирное. Действительно нужна война.

Да, войны нужны. Нужно, чтобы военная техника апробировалась и сравнивалась на полях боёв, а не в кабинетах.

Дядя, проснись. Эти штуковины уже давным давно на вооружении. Английского ты скорее всего не знаешь, так-что воспользуйся автоматическим переводчиком.
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The history of unmanned flying military machines is not a long one, but among its most storied incidents was the time a pilotless drone took prisoners.

During the Gulf War in 1991, a group of Iraqi soldiers posted on an island off the coast of Kuwait City began to hear the buzz of a two-cycle engine. Navy controllers were flying a Pioneer drone just over their heads to let them know they were being targeted by the USS Wisconsin and her 16-inch guns, which can hurl shells the size of Volkswagens.

The Iraqis soldiers picked up everything in sight -- handkerchiefs, undershirts, and bed sheets -- to show the Pioneer's camera that they wished to surrender.

No one predicts Baghdad will fall as easily, but a whole new class of drones like the Pioneer are expected to play a critical role in the final assault on Iraq's capital city.

The best known of the U.S. military drones, the Predator, was deployed this week to spot retreating Republican Guard units so they could be attacked before melting into the streets of Baghdad.

But at least eight UAVs -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- are likely to see action before the war is over, including new "micro-drones" that can fly and spy through city alleyways or building corridors.

U.S. forces in Operation Desert Storm had one -- the first-generation Pioneer, which flew more than 300 missions, using a camera to beam live targeting and reconnaissance images back to controllers.

Today's Air Force has the Predator and the Global Hawk. The Army flies the Shadow and the Hunter. The Marine Corps operates an advanced version of Pioneer and a new vehicle called Dragon Eye.

"And there are a number of other systems that I won't identify specifically that are deployed," said Dyke Weatherington, a specialist in the Pentagon's Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Task Force.

Among them is probably the first tiny remote-controlled aircraft called Micro Air Vehicles. Plans for these MAVs, described in a 1997 report by James M. McMichael, who managed the micro-vehicle program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, envisioned a plane barely 6 inches long. It would weigh a few ounces, have a range of six miles and a top speed of 45 mph.

Predator, in contrast, is 27 feet long and weighs 1,130 pounds. Pioneer is 14 feet long and weighs more than 400 pounds. The smallest conventional drone, named the "Sender" and developed by the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, weighs 10 pounds and has a 4-foot wingspan, and a range of 100 miles.

Assuming micro vehicles are being used in Iraq, they may look and fly more like humming birds or insects than the Sender or other traditional aircraft.

"You can't just shrink a 747 proportionately down to six inches and expect it to fly," said Dr. Samuel Blankenship, who coordinated a microflyer research program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The smaller an aircraft becomes, the more skittish it acts, responding more acutely to wind, rain and air.

One futuristic microflyer, envisioned by Georgia Tech engineer Robert Michaelson, looks like a mechanical dragonfly and bears the imposing name, Reciprocating Chemical Muscle-Driven Multimode Entomopter.

The McMichael report suggested that such designs might not be so far out.

"MAVs may require more unusual configurations and approaches, ranging from low-aspect fixed wings to rotary wings or even more radical notions like flapping wings," he wrote.

The first MAVs probably can remain aloft for about an hour while transmitting TV-quality images back to a base station. Their payload -- cameras, sensors, mini-weapons -- would be a whopping 20 grams, just under one ounce.




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Хорошая штука Интернет. Много умных людей тут. А то сидишь в неведении, английского не знаешь...