The Optical-Mechanical Design Bureau (OKB) Astron, part of the Shvabe holding of the Rostec state enterprise, has developed a complex for long-range thermal imaging intelligence with the intelligent analytical Blockpost-4T. as said TASS The General Manager of the organization, Vladimir Popov, said that the drone quadrocopter “flying thermal camera” was integrated into the IHA400T system.
It is noted that the RF Armed Forces have various optoelectronic means to collect information about the terrain in all weather conditions, including thermal imaging.
Popov pointed out that there has always been a dilemma for thermal imaging tools – either to have a wide field of view or to provide high image detail.
“We thought that integrating a “flying thermal camera” into the ground surveillance system would allow us to solve this dilemma in a non-standard and rather elegant way,” the expert emphasized.
The new reconnaissance complex has a unified control system and image acquisition with output to a single monitor. Blockpost-4T can detect people at distances up to 800 meters and cars at distances up to 2,000 meters.
The complex has built-in analytics, highlighting detected objects on the screen and showing them to the operator. The operator sends the drone to the point. Target recognition is carried out by an unmanned thermal imaging system at distances up to six kilometers.
The complex has been successfully tested.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian army launched “Orlan-10” in the mountains of Tajikistan. They provehttps://www.socialbites.ca/army/news/2022/08/30/18446048.shtmlreconnaissance of camouflaged command points of the “enemy”, control of the advancement and deployment of formation subunits when performing combat training tasks. During the flight, the control center received photo and video information in real time. A thermal imaging camera was used to detect the covert movement of the enemy with the calculations of the complexes.