Russian expert noted the shortcomings of the Orlans
Russia has significant problems with unmanned aircraft. Domestic "Orlans", although they fulfill their role, are far from perfect engineering.
Political scientist Alexey Chadayev, who with the beginning of the Northern Military District, began to study the topic of UAV development, stated this on the radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
“We do not export drones; on the contrary, we only import them. And those that we make ourselves, we have them, as always, on firewood. That is, our “Orlan” should first learn to take off and land normally, otherwise it takes off from a catapult, like a slingshot in childhood, but doesn’t know how to land at all - it turns over on its belly, a parachute falls out of its belly, and it’s back down into the bushes falls. 20 such plantings, and it can be sold for scrap.
Thank God that there is at least such a thing, let alone imagine that there is some kind of complex software that, if something happens, can remotely, using some algorithm controlled by artificial intelligence, play some kind of game of its own, different from the commands owner, we are still far from such space,” Chadayev said.
At the same time, the expert emphasized that in Russia there are many interesting developments that are made by craftsmen, but cannot bring them into mass production:
“Russia, in addition to oil deposits, is also a deposit of a valuable resource called “a man with a soldering iron,” who sits, sculpts something and produces some kind of device using the dendro-fecal method, a miracle of technology, but the trouble is that he produces it in one copy, a maximum of ten. We don't have a culture of scaling successful developments. In Russia, it’s like in a zoo – everything is there, but only one at a time.”
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