Joker (drone)

2023: Product Announcement

The Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (CCBR) has developed a line of FPV-drones (First Person View) "Joker," which can perform the entire range of combat missions in the zone of military operation in Ukraine. This was announced in May 2023 by the director of the center Dmitry Kuzyakin.

We analyzed foreign experience, the experience of the enemy, rethought it, added our own solutions and made a universal Joker line based on sports drones, which today performs all the tasks that our fighters face. Drones in the line differ only in the weight of the wearable payload, while remaining versatile. This "station wagon" now does not need to be soldered, redone, change suspensions on ties or hang up additional equipment. He is ready to perform any tasks without interfering with the design, - he said in a conversation with TASS.

Testing the "Joker" drone

He clarified that the products of the line received a universal payload mounting platform, the idea of ​ ​ which was borrowed from foreign drones, but deeply redesigned by the Central CRP.

"Joker" can be anything like its card namesake, "Dmitry Kuzyakin emphasized.

The CDC has also developed a standard for the supply of all end devices. As a result, all settings, firmware and topology were standardized. Now the Russian military "does not need to puzzle how to set up a drone for itself," the center's general director added.

He recalled that, like ammunition, FPV drones have various specializations - scouts, spotters, attack aircraft, bombers, miners, kamikaze and special equipment carriers.

Previously, for each task, you had to make a separate drone and teach how to work with it... Not only did our fighters have to carry several drones on a mission, but there was also a need to remake drones from one role to another right at the front. Once this affected the effectiveness of the application and almost caused the failure of the mission, "Kuzyakin emphasized.[1]

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