The first Russian rescue drone Seadrone ME was tested in the Kara Sea conditions, TASS reports with reference to the company-developer “Aerial survey.”
water when rescuing a person on the water (a dummy equipped with a search beacon was used for the exercises), “the message says.
The drone also worked out the ejection of a life jacket and a circle to a drowning man, flights with a loudspeaker and a searchlight, water samples were taken using a bottle.
The flight tests were carried out jointly with Gazprom Nedra, which is constructing two wells in the Kara Sea. Their goal was to test the performance of an unmanned vehicle in an aggressive environment. Thus, the wind speed was no more than 8 meters per second with gusts of up to 15 meters per second, the air temperature was from minus five to zero degrees, the humidity was from 80 to 100 percent and the waves were on average one to two meters high.
The Seadrone ME drone has shown results and is capable of working in northern latitudes, it can be operated in the Arctic in conditions of the open sea and salt fog.
Earlier, a marine version of the KUB-UAV drone was tested in Russia. Loitering ammunition was developed by Zala Aero (part of the Kalashnikov group of companies). The compact size of the complex allows launching loitering ammunition from landing boats.