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The Russian military has successfully converted the Dan aerial target into a suicide drone, Ukrainian media reported on May 29.
The Dan was developed by the Kazan OKB “Sokol” for use in air defense tests and exercises. The system, which is powered by a turbojet engine, is meant to mimic fixed-wing aerial targets with higher speeds, including cruise missiles and fighter jets.
The aerial target has an endurance of 25-40 minutes and speed of 400-750 kilometers per hour. It is also highly maneuverable and can be equipped with electronic warfare systems.
According to Ukrainian media, the Russian military has used a version of the Dan converted into a suicide drone to attack several targets of Kiev forces.
Converting aerial targets to suicide drone is neither a new idea, nor a hard one to implement. The Dan was apparently equipped with a guidance system, most likely based on a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system, and got its recovery parachute replaced with a warhead.
It is also possible that the Dan was equipped with a passive radar seeker to lock on and attack Ukrainian air defenses, although in this case describing the converted system as a loitering munition would be more fitting.
Calculating the minimum endurance of the Dan with its top speed, we could estimate the suicide drone version of the system to have a range of just over 300 kilometers.
The Russian military has been using aerial targets like the Dan to test and overwhelm Ukrainian air defense since the start of the special military operation more than three years ago. This is, however, the first time reports suggest that such a system was also used in attack missions.
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it’s going to be a “hot” summer in moscow…heheheheh
i don’t think there has been a country in the history of the world that has so thouroughly destroyed itself with cheap lies and imbecility than ukraine. its supporters are making sure it continues.
and here come the one liner brigade … that one idiot that desperately want to appear as there are multiple people spouting crap. at some point, i thought it was so stupid so it may be sf trying to enhance engagement by stirring emotions. but yeah : some people are that stupid that they end up believing they own lies.
don’t let the trolls get you down mac you have some good posts that people like to read. it’s probably just some 13 year old kid or maybe just a bot. keep on trucking.
i’m not bothered at all. i enjoy pointing out their idiocy to stupid people in exquisite details when they are as evil as that. you could say it’s a hobby of mine.
don’t be a dummy. stop feeding the troll.
while russia will continue to supply some gas via the turkstream pipeline across the black sea — mostly to serbia and hungary — the loss of transit connections through ukraine has dealt another major blow to gazprom after the end of nordstream 2 and connections through belarus.
degenerate homo americunbts now must pay taliban therapist in rubles since dollar worthless
moscow, which only a few years ago supplied around 40% of the eu’s energy needs, today only provides some 8%. it has found new customers in asia, but mostly for oil, with significant parts of its gas infrastructure now dormant and re-orientation of gas export markets towards asia too slow and too costly for russia to manage while it is waging war against ukraine.
and china is paying for russian gas only 170 euros per 1000m3 while eu countries paid 500-530 €. china also won’t invest to siberia 2 pipeline. big blow to faces of kremlin leaders. things looking not good to russia.
it’s always in the future with these catastrophic predictions, isn’t it ? but somehow it never comes to pass for some reason. you are laughable.
what china is paying russia for natural gas is quite obviously not public knowledge nor is it paid in euros or dollars. by weaponizing their currencies, these idiots just made themselves blind. but you can’t fix stupid.
ruble gold dollar shit–jimmy =homosexual americunt
so stupid, don’t even realise you’re contradicting yourself from a few months back with “ we will cripple russia by divesting our energy resources “?
energy is the base of everything. no energy = no work, no job, no life. you have to be pretty stupid to gloat that you are destroying your own economy by renouncing easy to obtain and cheap energy. yet that is exactly what the eu leaders and this imbecile are doing.
the whole of its energy exports have simply been redirected to more reliable and trustworthy customers, china, india and others. nordstream was only built as a favour to merkel. the siberian pipelines and lng exports just replace what used to go to the jewu. that market was always more trouble than it was worth – sanctions, restrictions, ludicrous lawfare cases. russia is glad to write it off. the jewu can pay through the nose for lng from the jewsa.
my mulatto fentanyl dealer rejects dollar only accepts ruble yuan or peso
very effective and practical.
the jew.s.a. would of spent $80m to conclude they’d need to budget another $1b to design, build, and replace the existing ones to do that, delivered in 2032…
yes but the war profiteers also have the profits and the usa taxpayers keep on paying and sending their sons to endless wars overseas to enslave humanity🥶
rome thought so too.
is russia a dying nation?
russia already brain death.
so how is russian special looting operation going on in ukraine? how many washing machines and toilet seats so far looted by ruzzian soldiers?
they don’t need washing machines because there is no electricity in russia. it hasn’t been invented there yet. all the women do their washing in the river. putin is waiting for cars to be invented so he can replace his carriage drawn by 4 bears.
more successes for proud russian people . a nation in lockstep for defeating nato