The “manufacturer” claims that the UAV is equipped with “completely domestic software”.
According to TASS, yesterday, St. The Patriot K40TL drone with EW protection, shown at the St. Petersburg SPIEF forum, will go to the Russian Ministry of Defense for testing. Moreover, it turned out that test versions of the drone already exist on the territory of Ukraine, where the invading forces are testing their capabilities.
The Patriot K40TL reconnaissance aircraft, introduced at the forum as a “dominant drone”, turned out to be an ordinary Chinese EVO II Pro V3 aircraft from Autel Robotics. It can be purchased on the well-known AliExpress at a price of about 2.5 thousand dollars.
Even turbopatriots and propaganda “military reporters” showered a lot of negativity on the Russian Ministry of Defense by criticizing this drone on telegraph channels, and close to Shoigu’s department suggested “massive theft in state orders for the army” (but no one blamed Putin) .
As a result, the company Astrakom (Patriot brand), engaged in the “improvement” of this UAV, had to admit that the drone is actually foreign, but “assembled in Bashkiria, and all the software was written by the Russians.” and meets the requirements of the Ministry of Defense and the military”.
Experts suggest that this statement be understood as follows: “The components of the UAV come from China at best (if not the entire drone), they put the Patriot label on them and fill in their software approved by the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” That’s the whole point of the “sovereign drone.” Now all that remains is to sign a contract for the supply of “analogue net” drones to the military and count the profits from the state order.”
The software manufacturer promises that the modified drone will protect against hacking, changing the coordinates, and successfully resist electronic warfare systems. “We have conducted more than 10 tests with the largest manufacturers of Russian electronic warfare systems, at the moment the drone has not been jammed by any system yet,” said a company representative.
Previously Focus Patriot talked about the details of the embarrassment experienced with the K40TL drone.
Source: Focus
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