Russia has developed a new system for the protection of strategic facilities

Russia has developed a system to protect industrial and defense facilities that allows monitoring the terrain and airspace within a radius of 60 km. The new system is designed to protect and defend important social, infrastructural or military facilities. It consists of two echelons. The close circuit includes permanent monitoring points with multifunctional radar stations and control posts with thermal imaging and video equipment. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with night vision systems and thermal imaging cameras are used to control the long-range surveillance zone around the facility. Izvestia was told about it in the company-developer FROBOTICS.

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The involved equipment and UAVs can control not only the airspace, but also the situation on the ground, the company noted. In particular, Svarog-14 drones can patrol the terrain in flight with all the necessary equipment for at least two to three hours. To increase the area of patrolling, the heavy drone "Trucker" can act as a signal repeater for "Svarogs".

"This allowed us to achieve 'seamless' surveillance of a large territory at a distance of more than 60 km from the control center," FROBOTICS CEO Oleg Fedorov told Izvestia.

Military expert Yuri Lyamin also noted that the enemy's primary targets of attacks and sabotage were fuel and energy complex facilities, in particular, oil depots and oil refineries, as well as airbases and airfields.

"The very idea of creating an echeloned defense using radars, drones and surveillance systems is a good one. It could come in handy to protect oil depots or airfields," he added.

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