Speaking to the British press in the past few days, the Ukrainian UAV pilot described the day of the conflict at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The detail that caught the attention was the Bayraktar TB2 SİHA’s return to the base on its own after being hit by the S-300.
How did Bayraktar TB2 get rid of the S-300 missile?
Ukraine and Russia were in intense conflict at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant last March. In fact, since the power plant was damaged, many European countries went into a state of alert against a possible explosion hazard.
Of course, the Ukrainian and Russian sides were watching this conflict moment by moment from the sky via UAVs. According to the Ukrainian pilot, the Russian S-300 system was locked to the Bayraktar TB2 SİHA, which he personally controlled during this hot conflict, and he managed to hit it by firing a missile.
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Of course, the Ukrainian soldiers thought that they had lost this SİHA. Because it is stated that the data flow, that is, the connection, was lost after the missile exploded in the sky. But after 2 hours, they see that TB2 has landed on the runway on its own, with almost every part of it damaged, so to speak, with holes.
Although they cannot make sense of this situation at first, they realize the situation when they learn that it was hit by the S-300. We can roughly explain it like this, some air defense systems lock onto their target in the sky, then explode just like a bullet hits. But this is a relatively old technology and not as efficient as one might think.
Relatively new generation air defense systems, on the other hand, lock onto their target in a similar way and launch their missiles. But this missile does not hit the target directly. Instead, when it gets close enough, the sensors on it detect it and it explodes milliseconds before it hits, destroying everything around it. In this way, since the impact effect is not sufficient, there is no such thing as exploding.
But Bayraktar TB2 is an aircraft capable of performing a fully autonomous mission. In fact, when we look at the data shared by Baykar, we see that there are 3 redundant flight computers in addition to the mission computer in it.
In other words, even if it loses contact with the pilot because many parts of it are damaged in the air, it can return on its own in case of a possible malfunction, as the GPS data of the place where it takes off records the location and the route of the entire operation. Indeed, this is exactly how it happens.
In fact, according to the pilot who spoke to The Times, this UAV, which had many parts damaged, is being taken care of quickly. After the relevant change and repair processes, it takes off again and continues its duty. Of course, although his fate is unknown at the moment, we can say that he left a great impression on the British press.
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