Russia Has A Technical Air Area Monitoring System: Aircraft Economy, Rockets To Small Drones

JAKARTA - The Tula Central Design Bureau for Industry for the first time presented its advanced air area monitoring system at the 2022 Army Forum some time ago.

The system is said to be capable of tracking herd aerial vehicles, including small UAVs, identifying their types.

"What we are doing is launching a group of 20 (air vehicles): planes, rockets, drones and helicopters flying in the air. And that shows everything: if the helicopter is quiet, it's also silent, if it moves, arrows also show it," explained Mikhail Masaltsev, an expert from the design bureau, quoted from TASS 28 August.

"It controls everything from 400 meters to 80 kilometers. Most importantly, it sees a small drone at a distance of seven kilometers or more, and a large one, such as Orlan, from 18 kilometers," he said.

Video presentations from the system show a screenshot of the operator's captured monitor of how the control system tracks multiple small drones simultaneously.

It is known, Russia also has an early missile warning system that has just gained upgrades, to serve as an experimental combat warning.

The Russian missile early warning system consists of space-based components that integrate Tundra satellites and ground-based segments of the Voronezh type radar network covering all missile-threatening directions with its continuous radar field.