Add FPV drone (Mavic Series)

[ghost]

DB Selector

DB3K

Affected DBID(s)

quadcopter generic

Summary of Changes

Add to both Ukraine and Russia as either an aircraft unit or facility (5x drone)

Variants: add surveillance optical sensor loadout (4K cam at 10nmi detect range, 90 degree FOV) add AT kamikaze loadout (1x tandem PG-7VR warhead) + optical sensor add anti-personnel loadout (4x 30mm grenades) + optical sensor

Flight Specs: Max range (30km) Max flight ceiling (5km) Max travel time (43 minutes)

RCS (A-D bands): front: -25 dBsm side: -20 dBsm rear: -25 dBsm RCS (E-M bands): front: -50 dBsm side: -45 dBsm rear: -50 dBsm

Sources

https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/7/1/39

the article above estimates RCS of larger consumer and military drones. The FPV drones are much smaller, therefore from the RCS estimates in this study, it's reasonable to deduce the Mavic and other FPV drones have smaller RCS measures from -40 to -50 dBsm for E-M bands

[sr71xx]

radar signature extremely tiny. no evidence of medium or long range air defense engaging and downing any mavic type/FPV/quadcopter drone. Only evidence of these drones being downed is by SHORAD systems mainly by AAA cannons from pantsir/tunguska. and also MANPAD infrared igla-s, strela-10 infrared guided but at low altitudes. There was some recent footage showing Tor-M2 shooting down quadcopter and kamikaze drones using missiles but at low altitudes and very close range. Otherwise radar would not be able to spot it. Nevertheless, these drones have radar signatures at a minimum -50 dbsm. Couple that with very low altitude flying and very slow speeds, extremely hard to detect with even the most capable radars.