Sit sounds like very ordinary news, but in reality it is directly related to the war in Ukraine. Until a few days ago, Russian users came from the territory of the Russian Federation they could not buy DJI or Autel civilian drones. As of March 2, this problem no longer exists.
The online sale of drones for Russians was quite limited. For example: On March 1, Russian citizens could not purchase civilian drones from the Alibaba online store. Using geolocation scripts, if the site server detected that the access attempt was made from the territory of the Russian Federation, the message “The page cannot be found” was displayed.
In addition, the Chinese drone manufacturer DJI had removed the drone control application from the AppStore if anyone from the territory of the Russian Federation wanted to download or use it.
In the late evening of March 2, however, China, through Alibaba, effectively removed the restriction for the Russian market, and therefore from today everyone can freely buy a DJI or Autel drone if they are on the territory of the Russian Federation. Also, Alibaba no longer restricts Russian users from other users of other nationalities. That is to say, nationality-based restrictions specific to Russians have also been omitted.
Why is this news important? In a purely civilian aspect, Russian citizens will be able to start buying drones again for their civilian or hobby needs. Not that they haven’t done it before. But in purely military terms, the authorization opens the door to the purchase of hundreds of drones for the Russian military.
Once DJI or Autel drones arrive in Russia, they are remodified for military purposes. These drones can be used in three ways in Ukraine: reconnaissance, aiming artillery shells or kamikaze. The first way of use is completely clear. DJI or Autel, through their GPS systems integrated in them, can accurately provide accurate geographic locations of enemy ground military equipment or military units.
Once the signal is received by the operator, he can feed it into the fire control system of an artillery platform. In this way the projectile receives much more precise coordinates of the target.
Then there’s another job and it’s familiar from the war videos in Ukraine. A charge is placed on the body or under the drone [a seconda del modello di drone]. Later the drone goes in search of an enemy target and when an enemy target is detected, a sudden change in direction and speed causes a collision with the weapon system and causes an explosion. How effective the explosion is and what kind of damage it does to the enemy system varies from time to time.
Late last year, it became clear that Russia has acquired hundreds of DJI drones supplied by China. The so-called Chinese neutrality towards the war in Ukraine has been debunked. Even though China hasn’t provided large systems and lethal systems, Beijing still supports Russia in one way or another.
DJI drones in a military application are dangerous weapons. There is evidence that the Russians are not buying such cheap drones, but investing 12,000 euros each for much better quality, much more durable and longer range DJI drones.
The Matrice-30T drone model is most often bought by Russians. This drone is equipped with AeroScope software that allows its operator to track enemy drones. This software is extremely important as it can track the trajectory of an enemy drone up to 50km. This is quite enough for the conditions of the war in Ukraine.
With the “return” of Russians to Alibaba’s online commerce, reports are expected to come from Ukraine in the coming months about the increased use of DJI drones.
source: bulgarianmilitary.com
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Obviously, there is nothing strange in all this except in the twisted Western reasoning, where war can only be fueled by one side, justified by a single reading and, needless to say, decided unilaterally and without contradiction.