OK strange development Croatia

Seems they have found parachutes near the crash site . Can you drop items from a drone by chute then crash the drone ? I have never heard that were capable of doing that but if so what are the dropping and to who for what reason ? Could it be bio weapons this is very strange !

Police find parachutes near mystery crash site

RT

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

The drone ends its flight by deploying a parachute for a soft landing. It's a common way to save weight on landing gear or hardening for a belly landing.

My guess is it deployed when the craft ran out of fuel, but since something was obviously wrong with the flight it either sheared or snagged on something on deployment or descent.

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Maybe part of some sort of recovery system that activates parachutes upon a malfunction or out of fuel.

Never heard of such thing existing on drones but it would make sense to me.

a reply to: cmdrkeenkid

Seems like they would have known that this type drone uses parachutes and not made a story out of it . I've not heard of drones doing this whats the point to try and save the drone ? if it the way they land to save on landing gear weight sure did not work on this one .

Lots more info in this earlier thread, it was a Soviet-era drone and yes a parachute was used for retrieval and reuse.



www.abovetopsecret.com...

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

People who are unfamiliar with the recovery process may not know it uses a parachute for this purpose.

Yes, it is so the craft can be reused. Newer, smaller systems use big nets or arresting systems, but the Tu-141/243 are pretty big and old systems, predating the precision flights accomplished by drones of today.

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Better to save it then having to buy a new one each time i would guess

You do increase the mass of the drone by adding parachutes , wich reduces your flight time depending on how much extra weight you add , if that is only minor i would for sure put chutes on a drone.

a reply to: TheGreazel

Makes sense I guess but sure didn't help this old bird .

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
a reply to: TheGreazel

Makes sense I guess but sure didn't help this old bird .

Yea thats a decent hole , i can't go to RT sadly because european peasant

www.aljazeera.com...

Pretty cool drone i gotta say , gives off V1 vibes with what looks like a air intake on the top rear.

en.wikipedia.org...

a reply to: TheGreazel

I was thinking the same thing just seems odd that it was in the air on a one way trip .

that cruise-Drone sure missed Moscow, which might have been launched by whim from Ukraine soldiers with hands-on experience

it traveled over 400 miles thru Hungary & Croatia territory before crash (Moscow is 300 miles from Ukraine)
a successful strike would have made Russia look inept for sure

somebody or team pulled a real goofy stunt is my analysis

It also spent 3 minutes in Romanian air space. There is an Aegis ashore BMD system based in Romania which Russia really doesn't like. Testing if this would trigger some kind of response and making it look like an Ukrainian oopsie?

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

With one of my fixed wing drones, there’s a parachute built in as a redundant safety mechanism.

So it doesn’t glide off into oblivion if it loses radio contact (again)
And so if the battery dies it doesn’t go Bin Laden style into a building.

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

If they lose communications, or the drone has a navigation failure (older drones of this type usually flew pre programmed courses), it's going to fly a straight line course. There was recently an RQ-7 flying at Fort Huachuca in Arizona that lost communications and crashed into a forest in Colorado after flying a straight line course until it ran out of fuel.