SoundCenter

2023: Using the application as part of a special operation in Ukraine

The Russian military came up with a new method for determining the positions of Ukrainian artillery in the zone of a special military operation, detecting the sound of its shots using several smartphones. This became known in January 2023.

According to Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, the Russian military has developed software for smartphones that determines the coordinates of sound sources by shot. Four sound meters with smartphones are located at a distance from the line of combat contact and using the program determine the time for detecting the sound of a shot, after which the data is transmitted to the central tablet with the SoundCenter program, which calculates the coordinates of the target, RIA Novosti reports.

The article notes that this method is mainly used to transmit target designations to the calculation of drones, which performs additional reconnaissance of the enemy's position.

The agency notes that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation use various complexes of sound and sound thermal reconnaissance, which with high accuracy determine the positions of enemy artillery units and give out coordinates for their defeat. However, along with them, the military at the front use abnormal means of sound reconnaissance.^[1]

In early January 2023, The New York Times reported that Ukraine is increasingly controversial about the rationality of using missiles to combat cheap drones, the cost of which is seven times higher than these drones.

There is a growing imbalance in Ukraine: many of its defensive weapons, such as surface-to-air missiles, cost far more than the drones they shoot down. And this, according to some military experts, may in the long term favor Moscow, the publication said.

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