Developer: Russia uses drones with domestic thermal imagers in a special operation

This was announced by the representative of the Astron design bureau (an enterprise producing drones) Alexander Bubnov.

“In connection with a military special operation, the state customer needed a domestic thermal imager for drones.

In fact, our UAV400T is a flying thermal imager, which is also used for reconnaissance and target designation of artillery.

The product is already being serially supplied to the Russian Armed Forces and is used in the SVO, ”RIA Novosti quotes Bubnov.

The UAV400T recognizes the manpower and equipment of the enemy at a distance of up to 400 m, the duration of the drone flight is 45 minutes, the flight altitude is up to 3 km, the takeoff weight is 1.2 kg.

By the end of the year, the company plans to produce 1,000 such drones for the needs of the Russian army.

Earlier, FAN reported that the Russian-Indian corporation BrahMos Aerospace presented the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile at the Army-2022 forum.