Aviones sin piloto (RPAS, UAS, UCAS, drones)

[Qoxo]

“For the first time since the Korean War, we are operating without complete air superiority.”

https://www.airforcemag.com/u-s-forces-operating-without-complete-air-superiority-due-to-small-armed-drones/

[Kique]

"China's CH-6 armed reconnaissance UAV development breaks cover.
CASC is developing a new medium/high-altitude, long-endurance (MALE/HALE) armed reconnaissance UAV called the CH-6 (Rainbow-6)"
https://t.co/xJiLQwftR4?amp=1

[Kique]

DISCUS C-UAS sistema fe detención de drones susado por Holanda.
https://twitter.com/dronesdeguerra/stat ... 69377?s=20

[Kique]

Schiebel Camcopter ® S-100 realiza vigilancia marítima para EMSA en Estonia.
https://t.co/G9l3UmZcoM?amp=1



Loitering Munition attack. Video is from Iran's.
Video: https://twitter.com/FeWoessner/status/1 ... 66594?s=20

[Kique]

Zala Aero Group presenta su nuevo RPAS Zala 421-16E5G en Moscú.

https://twitter.com/infodron_es/status/ ... 40642?s=20

[Orel]

Aquí citan la supuesta noticia de hace unos días de Marruecos comprando Bayraktar TB2, pero citando al medio African Intelligence... https://www.defensa.com/africa-asia-pac ... as-armadas
aún no sale en ninguno de los grandes portales de defensa considerados "fiables" (p.ej. Jane's, Flightglobal, Aviationweek...)


China desvela un nuevo UCAS furtivo:
http://alert5.com/2021/04/20/china-unve ... lthy-ucav/

Tactical drone, powered by solar panels and hydrogen fuel cell, flies 24h
The US Naval Research Laboratory flew a Hybrid Tiger unmanned air vehicle (UAV) for more than 24h in November 2020, its longest flight demonstrated.
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 58.article

The USAF has started upgrades to part of its MQ-9 Reaper fleet to keep the UAV effective against near-peer adversaries, such as China and Russia

The air force will award the first delivery order of planned MQ-9 Multi-Domain Operation (M2DO) aircraft – which will include several new upgrades from previous production builds – to General Atomics in April 2021. The air force is also retrofitting a portion of the already fielded MQ-9 fleet to the same M2DO configuration, allowing the air force to leverage current fleet numbers to meet future warfighter requirements through the service life of the aircraft.

The MQ-9 programme office is wrapping up initial fleet upgrades to diminish the threat of command and control jamming, the USAF says. This is the first retrofit of many, as MQ-9 M2DO-configured aircraft will receive additional closely-held capabilities that will enable command and control mission assurance and resiliency while the aircraft is airborne.

The programme is also increasing the MQ-9’s onboard electrical power by an unspecified amount and is developing a new open architecture for the UAV. The USAF says these upgrades will allow the type to quickly integrate new payloads in response to emerging threats.
The service says it also plans to upgrade the MQ-9’s electro-optical/infrared camera and expand the types of weapons it can carry.

Recently, General Atomics demonstrated the MQ-9 carrying a countermeasures pod, intended to help protect the UAV from surface-to-air missile attacks. The USAF has also experimented with the idea of using the UAV for tracking ballistic missile launches and shooting down incoming cruise missiles.
And, the service is looking at ways to use the MQ-9 for long-endurance surveillance of Russia and China. The USAF has pointed to the UAV’s February deployment to Romania, where the aircraft flew sorties not far from the Russian border.

The USAF believes that these upgrades will keep the MQ-9 relevant to the end of its projected service life in 2035. By then, the service aims to have a stealthier replacement UAV, designed specifically to counter threats from Russia and China. That aircraft has been dubbed MQ-Next and is in the early stages of development.

https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 03.article

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... s-for-mq-9

[Kique]

Video: https://twitter.com/AceJaceu/status/138 ... 49858?s=20

https://twitter.com/kamerknc/status/138 ... 10308?s=20






https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/ ... 17601?s=20

[Qoxo]

Más noticias sobre Skydweller Aero, que está probando su bicho en Albacete:
https://www.lanzadigital.com/provincia/valdepenas/skydweller-aero-inc-logra-con-exito-un-record-mundial-preliminar-para-el-vuelo-de-mayor-altitud-en-un-avion-con-energia-solar/

https://actualidadaeroespacial.com/skydweller-aero-prueba-con-exito-el-vuelo-sin-piloto-del-avion-que-se-alimenta-por-energia-solar/

[Kique]

Russian graphic - Orion, Altius and Korsar UCAV munitions
https://twitter.com/SamBendett/status/1 ... 24232?s=20

[Orel]

Más noticias sobre Skydweller Aero, que está probando su bicho en Albacete:

Interesante, ojalá salga adelante!

Australia obtiene permiso de EEUU para comprar hasta 12 MQ-9B SeaGuardian con todo por 1.650 millones de dólares, ellos usarán el radar SeaSpray 7500 V2 en lugar de nuestro Lynx, además de AIS, bola Wescam MX-20 y SAGE 750 ESM:
https://alert5.com/2021/04/25/australia ... 12-mq-9bs/
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... n-standard
https://www.flightglobal.com/military-u ... 53.article

Otro programa más (además del Armed Overwatch):
As US and coalition troops prepare to leave Afghanistan by 11 September, the Pentagon is looking at “offshore, over-the-horizon options” to conduct counter-terrorism activities in the Central Asian country, if required.
"You need to find the target, you need to fix the target, and you need to be able to finish the target. The first two require heavy intelligence support, and if you’re out of the country and you don't have the ecosystem that we have there now, it will be harder to do that. It is not impossible … it will just be harder to do it."
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... fghanistan

Sobre lo puesto del Akinci turco lanzando municiones guiadas MAM-C, MAM-L y MAM-T...
https://alert5.com/2021/04/23/akinci-dr ... munitions/
Lo que me sorprende es el vídeo, minuto 1:14, todas las aves posadas junto al blanco, saliendo volando al caer la munición guiada. Impresiona y resulta raro de ver:
https://youtu.be/gne6NPwa08Y

[Kique]

1)¿Conoces los Sistemas Aéreos Remotamente Tripulados (#RPAS) MQ-9 #PredatorB del #EjércitodelAire?
Hilo: https://twitter.com/EjercitoAire/status ... 0552244227

[poliorcetes]

No entiendo el AHINCI. la posición adelantada de las hélices le niega mucho espacio alar para municiones y no dispone de espacio ventral

[bandua]

No entiendo el AHINCI. la posición adelantada de las hélices le niega mucho espacio alar para municiones y no dispone de espacio ventral

imagino que hacerlo así les ahorra muchas horas de ingeniería dedicadas a rediseñar el sistema de propulsión. Ya sabéis que hace tiempo que creo que por mucho que todos vuelen sin piloto hay drones y drones. Por eso, me tomo con filosofía que "todo el mundo" este sacando drones menos nosotros. Y ojo, lo de los turcos me parece impresionante, pero ellos tienen escenarios claros para el uso de estos drones en números importantes y quizás los "detalles" son menos importantes que sacar los bichos adelante en plazos relativamente cortos porque lo cierto es que en su frontera sur tienen mucho enemigo, mucha necesidad de loiter y en gran medida poca capacidad/voluntad de interferir en las operaciones de esos bichos. A mí modo de ver las campañas de Idlib de hace un par de años y la guerra de Nagorno-Karabak han mostrado virtudes y carencias. Son una herramienta que viene para quedarse, porque abarata mucho cierto tipo de misiones, pero son una herramienta con un nicho de uso definido y que posiblemente tampoco tiene sentido comprar en números si no hay un escenario de uso masivo inmediato y ni siquiera los franceses en Malí tienen una necesidad de uso tan masivo.

[poliorcetes]

https://airrecognition.com/index.php/ne ... -bomb.html

TAI Aksungur successfully drop tests KGK-SIHA-82 glide bomb
Aviation Defense News April 2021 aerospace air force industry
POSTED ON MONDAY, 26 APRIL 2021 11:40


The Aksungur armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, produced by the Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has achieved a new success. Taking off from Ankara with the KGK-SIHA-82 payload developed by TÜBITAK SAGE, Aksungur went to Sinop offshore with satellite control and successfully hit the target at an altitude of 30 km at an altitude of 20,000 feet.

[Kique]

U.S. plans to use drones to find drones

https://defensehere.com/eng/defense-ind ... nes/141751