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I wonder if at last they managed to build Fotros.
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I wonder if at last they managed to build Fotros.
if they can it will be perfect but if they can not do it at least we know army can buy them from IRGC for start.I wonder if at last they managed to build Fotros.
I wonder if at last they managed to build Fotros.
Fotros supposed to be able to fly higher and carry more weapon and stay more time in the air.Fotros was built (at least 2 prototypes likely more). But without GPS navigation and a more advanced sensor kit it likely was just a waste of money to mass produce. The Shaheed family does enough for the military.
The fact it wasn’t ever shown in Syria is even more telling, as that’s the best area to test a long endurance drone in a war scenario.
Fotros project is dead at this point.
Fotros was built (at least 2 prototypes likely more). But without GPS navigation and a more advanced sensor kit it likely was just a waste of money to mass produce. The Shaheed family does enough for the military.
The fact it wasn’t ever shown in Syria is even more telling, as that’s the best area to test a long endurance drone in a war scenario.
Fotros project is dead at this point.
GPS is just the cheapest tech and far from being the most sophisticated tech for navigations and any system that relies on GPS is most definitely not a secure system and that lesson was made clear to the Americans by Iran with the RQ-170
GPS based nav is best for smaller UAV's that really don't have much room to carry anything else for navigation or very cheap PGM's or cheap cruise missiles but on larger UAV's like MALE UAV's preferably you'd want GPS only as a backup to your standard nav....
What's far more important than a GPS is to have your own mapping software with detailed and up to date data which is hard to do for a country that doesn't have a large fleet of measuring sat's and imaging sat's in space
GPS is just multiple transmitters of a certain frequency sending out very accurate timestamps from multiple fixed locations to a receiver that then calculates it's locations by triangulating it's distance from each transmission by calculating the time it take for the frequency to reach it. (Transmissions traveling at a fixed speed sent at X time from location 1 & Transmissions received at X time from location 1 to calculate Distance from transmission from location 1 and with enough data (transmissions coming from fixed predetermined coordinates) you can triangulate you location )
Which means if an enemy has your frequency and can decode your timestamps then they can really mess with your GPS systems and that means GPS systems are most defiantly not secure systems for military use against a sophisticated country
GPS is just the cheapest tech and far from being the most sophisticated tech for navigations and any system that relies on GPS is most definitely not a secure system and that lesson was made clear to the Americans by Iran with the RQ-170
GPS based nav is best for smaller UAV's that really don't have much room to carry anything else for navigation or very cheap PGM's or cheap cruise missiles but on larger UAV's like MALE UAV's preferably you'd want GPS only as a backup to your standard nav....
What's far more important than a GPS is to have your own mapping software with detailed and up to date data which is hard to do for a country that doesn't have a large fleet of measuring sat's and imaging sat's in space
GPS is just multiple transmitters of a certain frequency sending out very accurate timestamps from multiple fixed locations to a receiver that then calculates it's locations by triangulating it's distance from each transmission by calculating the time it take for the frequency to reach it. (Transmissions traveling at a fixed speed sent at X time from location 1 & Transmissions received at X time from location 1 to calculate Distance from transmission from location 1 and with enough data (transmissions coming from fixed predetermined coordinates) you can triangulate you location )
Which means if an enemy has your frequency and can decode your timestamps then they can really mess with your GPS systems and that means GPS systems are most defiantly not secure systems for military use against a sophisticated country
Nonsense.
When I said GPS I ment sat guidance and sat communication. Why build drones that won’t be able to access GPS, Glonass, and Bediou during war time? Iran will find it difficult and since Iran doesn’t have it’s own comm sats, it’s useless.
And RQ-170 was US ignorance not a knock on GPS. Even before RQ-170, in Iraq you could hack into predator UAVs with off the shelf equipment because their data feed was NOT encrypted properly. They simply were to arrogant or careless to encrypt their data feeds. They didn’t think anything of it.
So yes it’s possible to have GPS guidance and sat comm while being adequately secure. Many advanced military craft use it.
With your logic, SAM systems are useless because if the enemy has your “codes” or FoF information they can mask an air attack.
Intresting How Russia was so far behind in UAVs that they had to buy UAVs from Israel and technology from Iran.
Low and behold Russian version of RQ-170
Makes you wonder if Iran provided ToT for this model and in exchange for what?
Sorry but there is no connection between RQ-170 & this bigass drone (Okhotnik)!
They are different stories...
maybe there is no connection between RQ-170 and this Okhotnis UAV
but I dont believe any second russia was not interested in the captured RQ-170
in 2011 russia was massivly behind in drone technology
for sure Iran and Russia shared technology and Iran got, of course, something in return
it was a massive blow for the USA losing this high tech beast, remember how they denied any loss back than?
Damn, it was the latest stuff at that time, only CIA operated it...
I bet also China wanted a look at it