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[00:00:01] We will launch a scalpel, lightning,
[00:00:03] supercams,
[00:00:06] or rather scalpels and lightning, supercams, you will see how these
[00:00:10] drones go out to perform real combat
[00:00:13] missions. Well, our task is to record all this for
[00:00:16] history, and also, going on a business trip to the reconnaissance
[00:00:20] Rubicon, we knew that we had the right to spend only
[00:00:23] 24 hours with the guys from the center. This is how we will name our
[00:00:27] film.
[00:00:35] Looking ahead, let's say that the day stretched out, but now everyone
[00:00:39] works like that, so will we. So, this is military
[00:00:43] acceptance,
[00:00:44] let's go.
[00:00:47] Nebistat,
[00:01:15] Zvezda TV channel is on air, military acceptance, we
[00:01:18] are rushing at full speed, probably
[00:01:22] 80 kilometers per hour, on such a road, in essence,
[00:01:25] this is a corridor closed by nets, that is, the road from above,
[00:01:29] left, right. It is closed by nets from drones, from FPV
[00:01:33] drones, from unmanned aircraft. They built
[00:01:36] a road there, these are engineering troops, engineering
[00:01:40] troops, they say with gratitude, the servicemen
[00:01:44] of Rubicon, yes, with
[00:01:45] gratitude.
[00:01:48] They made it for a long time, no, I'm surprised how they
[00:01:52] built all this, because every day I
[00:01:54] observed servicemen who
[00:01:58] a section of 500... meters to a kilometer
[00:02:01] were building with such incredible speed,
[00:02:05] that our gratitude goes to them. Our interlocutor, Captain with the
[00:02:09] call sign Yenisey, commander of the reconnaissance and strike group of the
[00:02:13] Rubicon center, a professional reconnaissance officer, he will become our
[00:02:16] guide on the Rubicon positions. So,
[00:02:19] a day of continuous work lies ahead, it's
[00:02:22] 8:00 PM, time has started. The goal of our
[00:02:25] trip for today. We are moving to the positions of the
[00:02:29] Scalpel crew. We will use the loitering
[00:02:32] munition Scalpel in free hunting. The concept of free
[00:02:36] hunting was borrowed by drones from pilots. For example,
[00:02:40] our attack aircraft worked in Syria. In pairs, they took off
[00:02:43] from the Hmeim airbase to a given area, hunted there
[00:02:47] for everything in a row, using, as a rule,
[00:02:50] unguided air-launched
[00:02:53] missiles. At Rubicon, the situation is
[00:02:57] similar, only the accuracy of strikes is expected to be
[00:03:00] much higher, the name Scalpel itself says
[00:03:03] it all. Let's go into the house, here, as we
[00:03:07] understand, no one lives
[00:03:10] anymore, except for the guys,
[00:03:13] let's go into the kitchen, this is how
[00:03:17] the guys live, we see that all
[00:03:19] the windows are sealed in such a way that it's not visible whether
[00:03:23] the light is on or not when you are outside. We
[00:03:27] are more afraid of FPVs or...
[00:04:00] The guys have a huge number of cables,
[00:04:03] sockets, a shower, a boiler, a washing
[00:04:06] machine, what else does a soldier need
[00:04:09] at the front? Here is a heater, this is
[00:04:12] for when it gets winter and cold,
[00:04:14] respectively some
[00:04:18] units, engines,
[00:04:21] wings, something else, unmanned aerial
[00:04:25] vehicles and
[00:04:28] endless
[00:04:30] wires going up and down the staircase, the
[00:04:34] conditions are such that on the one hand you can live and work comfortably
[00:04:37] here, on the other hand, it's not a shame to throw away all these
[00:04:41] things, except perhaps the microphone, at the
[00:04:44] moment when it's time to change positions, look
[00:04:48] at this, a normal apartment on one of the
[00:04:51] upper floors, here is this launch
[00:04:55] pad, this is for this
[00:04:58] scalpel now. This x-shaped
[00:05:01] unmanned aerial vehicle
[00:05:05] loitering loitering munition is
[00:05:08] being received. go ahead and record it.
[00:05:14] 5 kg.
[00:05:17] 5 kg. The target we will
[00:05:19] work on
[00:05:22] is the enemy's temporary deployment point. A temporary deployment point is a temporary
[00:05:25] dislocation point. Most likely, because free
[00:05:28] hunting is always luck. If we manage to detect
[00:05:32] disguised temporary deployment points, that's good. If we come across a convoy
[00:05:35] or some other transport, even better. Let's
[00:05:39] first show where the warhead is? Here is the warhead.
[00:05:42] It is not yet armed, what is this,
[00:05:45] cumulative, no, this is thermobaric,
[00:05:49] a thermobaric munition,
[00:05:51] distance up to 100 km, as we
[00:05:54] were told, and one of the features of the scalpel is
[00:05:57] that when the weather is
[00:06:00] bad outside, strong wind, when other
[00:06:02] reconnaissance drones fly with great difficulty and cannot even fly
[00:06:06] at all, the scalpel can in principle
[00:06:09] be used not as a strike drone, but as a
[00:06:13] reconnaissance drone, but now the weather is
[00:06:16] suitable, the weather is suitable, and this means
[00:06:20] that the scalpel will be used for its intended purpose, as
[00:06:24] a strike drone, so, its X-shaped wings
[00:06:27] are spread, communication has begun, it can take off,
[00:06:30] the time is 10:00 PM.
[00:06:34] With a hiss, like a rocket, the scalpel descends
[00:06:37] from the guide, let's show this process
[00:06:40] again, pay attention, the starting position
[00:06:44] of the Rubicon is chosen so
[00:06:47] that the probability of being detected by the enemy tends to
[00:06:51] zero, look what is happening now,
[00:06:54] we are leaving the position not
[00:06:57] because it is very dangerous, but because
[00:07:00] the starting point and the control point
[00:07:03] are separated, that is, we launched
[00:07:07] the scalpel in one place, and they control
[00:07:10] this loitering munition in
[00:07:14] another, and we won't say in what other place, in another house, in another area, in
[00:07:18] another quarter, it doesn't matter, in another
[00:07:20] place, and there's another small detail,
[00:07:24] while we are inside the buggy,
[00:07:27] there, in the cabin, someone
[00:07:30] is constantly there from the guys, watching the
[00:07:33] sky, well, it's clear that all this is at high
[00:07:37] speeds, we don't stop, we rush, we
[00:07:40] rush through an abandoned inhabited area like a field, dense
[00:07:44] vegetation presses the buggy from all sides, and that's good, it
[00:07:48] hides us from reconnaissance
[00:07:50] drones.
[00:07:57] Well, finally we arrived at the control point,
[00:08:00] we go underground, here there is also a small
[00:08:04] kitchen, a refrigerator, a cabinet, here
[00:08:08] it is, ta-da-da-dam, the holy of holies, or rather
[00:08:11] here it is... For understanding what is
[00:08:14] happening here, here you can already work two fairy tales without
[00:08:18] a bulletproof vest, the operator, here he is now controlling
[00:08:21] the scalpel, your neighbor, what does he do, the
[00:08:25] same thing, aims at the target, yes, yes, yes, yes, usually a combat crew
[00:08:29] consists of two operators and a commander, today, with
[00:08:32] the arrival of the press, in the commander's seat
[00:08:35] is Yenisey himself. We will take the temporary deployment point, usually he
[00:08:39] is in another, so to speak, more senior position.
[00:08:45] Who do you constantly communicate with? The squad commander designates the
[00:08:48] overall area and relevance for the next
[00:08:52] day, then I already have means, these are
[00:08:55] strike reconnaissance officers, and I simply begin to execute the overall
[00:08:59] plan. The guys peer into the monitor, guide the bird to
[00:09:02] the target, open spaces are replaced by forest belts,
[00:09:06] the first 30 km have been covered, and this means that
[00:09:09] the scalpel will soon go to...
[00:09:44] What do we know about Rubicon? It was created in 2024
[00:09:48] as a testing center for promising unmanned
[00:09:51] technologies based on the famous Sudoplatovites. There is
[00:09:55] little information about how Rubicon is organized, where its
[00:09:59] units are based, but there are many
[00:10:03] videos of combat operations. Before you is the Telegram channel of the center,
[00:10:06] a popular channel with thousands of subscribers.
[00:10:10] By the way, we advise you to subscribe to it, here is a kind of
[00:10:13] success journal, which contains thousands of videos showing
[00:10:17] how Rubicon fighters destroy artillery
[00:10:19] installations, armored vehicles, electronic warfare systems
[00:10:23] and radar stations,
[00:10:55] the very scalpel that left, our
[00:10:58] crew's work is organized as follows: there is a control operator who
[00:11:02] monitors the instruments and the main process itself, this is the senior
[00:11:05] operator, he navigates the terrain, yes, he navigates
[00:11:09] the terrain and guides the operator who directly controls
[00:11:12] the scalpel in his hands, these are the hands of the driver,
[00:11:16] yes, accelerator-brake, turn, figuratively
[00:11:19] speaking.
[00:11:55] At first there were questions, Gigachat, what is
[00:11:58] written here? With Gigachat, it's just 16 tenses.
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[00:15:05] Meanwhile, the scalpel crosses the front line, then begins
[00:15:08] a dangerous zone where enemy air defense systems and electronic warfare stations
[00:15:12] operate. You know what happens as
[00:15:15] the scalpel approaches closer and closer to
[00:15:18] the target, excitement appears, before that it was like, guys,
[00:15:22] not shaky, not wobbly, they were watching, now everyone is gathered.
[00:15:25] Everyone is waiting for something, something, something, something
[00:15:28] to happen, after all, free hunting is
[00:15:31] hunting in the first place, operators are
[00:15:35] more actively switching modes.
[00:16:37] goes here, here is contact, he went left,
[00:16:41] left, here is the signature, yes, yes, that's it, let's go in
[00:16:45] then, now we'll turn around, and how did you see this
[00:16:48] signature, experience, experience, silhouette, outline
[00:16:51] of equipment, the picture shakes, its quality
[00:16:54] drops, operator with call sign brilliant
[00:16:58] delivers a verdict, oh,
[00:17:01] wait, what was shot down, it seems the scalpel was shot down,
[00:17:05] but not dead, at its last gasp. The scheme has many advantages:
[00:17:18] the ability to fly in a wide range of speeds, high maneuverability,
[00:17:22] stability with small dimensions and stable flight in strong
[00:17:25] winds. Military Acceptance is on air, it's
[00:17:29] 2:00 AM, we are still working with the guys from Rubicon and now we will
[00:17:33] launch another scalpel, caught
[00:17:37] it, caught it.
[00:18:07] that the launch is delayed, but there are reasons for that,
[00:18:11] Rubicon specialists communicate with neighboring units so that
[00:18:15] the scalpel at launch is not shot down by their own, mistaking it for
[00:18:18] the enemy, ready for
[00:18:19] launch.
[00:18:23] The command "ready for launch" was heard, immediately
[00:18:26] the operator took the controls with his fingers,
[00:18:30] now as soon as it flies, the first second of flight,
[00:18:33] watch the hands, start, start, start,
[00:18:38] 2 plus means that scalpel number two has started
[00:18:41] working,
[00:18:43] the operator at the console immediately takes control of it,
[00:18:47] the loitering munition obediently gains altitude,
[00:18:50] thank you, guys, you are the best, took off, that's it, yes,
[00:18:54] took off, everything is normal with our operator, the munition is in
[00:18:57] the air, we are preparing to smash the enemy, from your
[00:19:01] experience the most interesting cases with the scalpel,
[00:19:04] the most interesting case is of course the destruction of Caesar. Caesar is
[00:19:08] a NATO 155 mm caliber howitzer,
[00:19:12] as they say here, a fat target,
[00:19:15] however, the collection of fat Rubicon successes does not
[00:19:18] end there, every case is always the most
[00:19:21] interesting, I had the most interesting case when we were working,
[00:19:25] we saw the enemy's UAV crew, who
[00:19:29] was coming out of the house, picking it up, hiding in
[00:19:32] the building, the enemy was picking it up, the enemy, that's right, yes,
[00:19:35] the enemy, we saw him.
[00:20:18] has been used for a long time, the first such widely
[00:20:21] used loitering munition was the Lancet from
[00:20:24] Zala. Of course, Rubicon works with Lancets, but
[00:20:27] today the scalpel is in the arsenal, so they are launching it. In
[00:20:31] addition, at the alternate airfield, another drone with X-shaped
[00:20:35] wings is being prepared for takeoff. YOLKA,
[00:20:38] well, let's show YOLOCHKA,
[00:20:41] here is a small YOLOCHKA, it's not cold,
[00:20:45] in summer in this place, it's
[00:20:48] an interceptor drone. Can I take it in my hands now? Yes, you can take it, it's not
[00:20:52] loaded, nothing, it's loaded, everything, but it's not powered, so I'll just
[00:20:55] take it, yes, you can demonstrate it. Compared
[00:20:58] to the scalpel, YOLOCHKA is smaller, weighs only 2
[00:21:02] kg, speed up to 220
[00:21:05] km/h. But its small size is rather a plus.
[00:21:09] It provides speed, maneuverability and stealth. For
[00:21:12] example, in these shots, the Rubicon YOLOCHKA deals with
[00:21:15] a rare dangerous strike drone from the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
[00:21:19] Darts, which is heading deep into central Russia.
[00:21:22] However, today we will not launch YOLKA,
[00:21:25] it's 5:00 AM, everything is like in
[00:21:28] the song, dawn is coming soon, we have
[00:21:31] no other choice but to turn the key
[00:21:34] and fly away.
[00:21:39] And so we are flying in a buggy through the already familiar village to the starting
[00:21:42] platform of another unmanned aerial vehicle,
[00:21:45] Molniya Air, R means reconnaissance,
[00:21:49] it's interesting that there are many roads in good
[00:21:53] condition, despite the fact that the city is generally broken
[00:21:56] and bombed, well, of course, the buggy
[00:22:00] absorbs all these bumps, but
[00:22:03] still, by some miracle, many roads
[00:22:06] remained on which you can drive, we leave behind
[00:22:10] a series of battle-scarred buildings, ahead are parts of trees, tall
[00:22:14] bushes, we stop, and
[00:22:16] suddenly we hear a sound that makes us raise
[00:22:20] our heads, above us the sound of
[00:22:22] an engine.
[00:22:28] What is that? That's Geran, Geran,
[00:22:31] ours. For a couple of seconds it was very
[00:22:34] unpleasant,
[00:22:37] when we didn't understand yet if it was ours or not ours, now
[00:22:40] all attention is on Molniya R, a new short-range reconnaissance
[00:22:44] aircraft with stable communication, although the term
[00:22:47] "universal" is more appropriate for it. Such lightning.
[00:22:51] is being transformed from a reconnaissance aircraft into a strike aircraft, its main
[00:22:54] feature is its cheapness,
[00:22:57] cheapness, mass production and simplicity of
[00:22:59] use. So, you get the first samples
[00:23:03] for testing, right? Yes, samples
[00:23:05] are sent for testing, if the testing is successful, we
[00:23:09] start working on them, we always provide
[00:23:12] the most competent and well-structured
[00:23:16] feedback to the factories, and the factories improve
[00:23:20] their products based on your requirements, our
[00:23:23] requirements, yes, look, such an unusual situation,
[00:23:27] now the serviceman
[00:23:30] takes off his body armor,
[00:23:33] it's supposedly not allowed, but he takes off his helmet too, why, let's explain,
[00:23:37] it is necessary to calibrate the magnetometer,
[00:23:41] so that the board during flight understands its position in
[00:23:44] space, roll pitch direction relative to
[00:23:47] the magnet. To do this, all
[00:23:51] metal objects must be
[00:23:55] removed, all electronics from pockets must be removed,
[00:23:58] that is, now there is absolutely no
[00:24:00] metal there, we, by the way, are also
[00:24:04] at a certain distance, our cameras,
[00:24:08] our microphones, our helmets,
[00:24:10] body armor, there are metal elements everywhere, this
[00:24:14] should not be, so, calibration is completed, the lightning
[00:24:18] is placed on the catapult and pro...
[00:25:02] could not fly in terms of the engine, its path is still limited by communication, that's why Rubicon mostly
[00:25:06] uses those drones that have
[00:25:09] electric motors. In the radio, we hear instructions for
[00:25:13] launch, at this moment there is no explosive
[00:25:16] on board, only cameras, taking off.
[00:25:20] Although no, not taking off, it happens that
[00:25:23] not everything happens as it should
[00:25:27] be, and this is understandable, the guys are working with new
[00:25:30] samples that are actually being tested here on the battlefield,
[00:25:33] that is, they are among the first,
[00:25:37] or perhaps even the very first, to receive
[00:25:40] these samples, they explain to me that the problem is not
[00:25:44] with the drone, but with the settings of the launcher for it,
[00:25:47] I change the launcher. launcher.
[00:26:32] and preparing for a new takeoff,
[00:26:35] cool, God loves a trinity, on the third attempt
[00:26:38] the scout goes into the sky,
[00:26:39] hooray.
[00:26:44] What happens after a successful launch, you already know, buggy,
[00:26:48] road and racing on it at maximum speed towards the control
[00:26:52] point.
[00:26:55] The advantages of Lightning are that it is very simple in its
[00:26:59] operation, very strong.
[00:28:03] Yes, because before the appearance of supercams, we only knew
[00:28:06] about reconnaissance drones like
[00:28:10] Orlan and other drones,
[00:28:13] we didn't even know about them, it's hard to believe, I saw a very
[00:28:16] surprised operator, he thought I wouldn't come back,
[00:28:20] it's impossible to imagine, a shell flew in, I was pulled out, you
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