The Beyraktar drone makes its comeback.

  The Beyraktar drone makes its comeback. 

Above: “ A Ukrainian TB2 drone armed with precision-guided weapons.” (Eurasian Times)

At the beginning of the Ukrainian war, the Beyraktar drone was the key element in the defense. Then, Russian electronic warfare systems made that drone unable to operate, but the Beyraktar TB-2 may be back in business. The question is this: Are those Beyraktars the same that operated during the early Russian attack? There is a possibility that those drones are updated. The Beyraktar-type drones are large, and they can carry sub-drones or independent, AI-controlled kamikaze drones. 

Or those Beyraktars can have an improved ability to cooperate with drone swarms and track missile sites. And especially sites that operate fiber drones. Or maybe their mission is to search Russian ECM stations and destroy them. Those drones can also operate. In maritime patrol duties. Recently, a Beyraktar drone sank a vessel in Black Sea. 

There is a possibility that those large-sized drones can also operate as decoys or larger kamikaze drones. The purpose of those drones is to make the Russians attack it. The larger-sized drones can carry larger. And more powerful computers than small-sized drones. When we think about Beyraktars, there is a possibility that there are also jet-powered versions of that drone. Another possibility is that the larger drone will carry Beyraktar to a strike distance from the target. The Beyraktar is a system that can carry an AI-based image recognition and attack system. 

The carrier vehicle can carry that drone deep into the Russian airspace. The AI-based system. Makes it possible to select. And attack targets independently. Those drones will not need radio communication. Or GPS. They can use optical digital scene-matching area correlation. Those are terrain contour-matching systems, boosted with aided inertial navigation systems, TERCOM/TAINS, which make those systems independent. from the GPS. The system uses the landmarks and inertial to navigate to the target. 

A radioisotope thermoelectric generator, RTG, gives unlimited operational time for drones. 

And then the system can drop parasite drones near the target, and Beyraktar can make a kamikaze mission against those targets. These kinds of systems are possible. The reason why. There are so many “maybes” in this text. Is this. There must be some kind of reason. Why Ukrainians return to that old system for operational use. There is a possibility that this kind of drone also has unlimited operational capacity. 

Those drones can use electric engines and a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, RTG. The RTG gives electricity to the systems. And those systems can operate for a very long time. The Voyager space probe uses the RTG generator. Which has delivered electricity for almost 50 years. That means a propeller or blower using a drone can operate for almost unlimited time. The blower gives  a higher speed for the drone. And that kind of stealth drone can be almost invisible. Those drones. Will not leave infrared marking, and their small size helps them survive. 

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/bayraktar-tb2-drone-made-a-comeback-in-ukraine/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-5_Flamingo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

The new heat shield material opens China's path to next-generation hypersonic flight.

"Illustration of a carbide ceramic material capable of withstanding extreme temperatures, revolutionizing hypersonic technology, generated by artificial intelligence." (Rude Baquette, “They Flew Through Hellfire”: China’s New Heat Shield Shatters Thermal Limits, Unlocking Next-Level Hypersonic Speeds)

"In a groundbreaking advancement that could redefine aerospace and energy industries, Chinese scientists have developed a revolutionary carbide ceramic capable of withstanding temperatures up to 6,512 degrees Fahrenheit (3600 C), surpassing current thermal limits and opening new frontiers for hypersonic technology." (Rude Baquette, “They Flew Through Hellfire”: China’s New Heat Shield Shatters Thermal Limits, Unlocking Next-Level Hypersonic Speeds)

One of the leading states in hypersonic R&D work is China. When we talk about hypersonic flight in the atmosphere, we must realize that things like pressure and heat cause problems with reusable systems like hypersonic jet fighters. The main problem with hypersonic aircraft and their heat shield is how to remove heat from the heat shield. When a heat shield stores heat energy, that thing makes its structure weaker. And if there is a hole that lets thermal energy impact the aircraft’s body. And that is a fatal case. There is one way to conduct energy out of the shell. 

And that is to store liquid gas like liquid nitrogen in a thermos bottle. When the aircraft’s shell turns too hot, the system injects liquid gas into it. In some other models, some liquids like water or some hydrocarbons flow in the cooling tubes. If the shell is connected to those tubes, it can decrease the temperature. In some models, the aircraft’s fuel will travel to the engine through the cooling tube. 

That increases the hydrocarbons like. Methane or hydrogen, at a higher temperature. That allows the injection of the preheated fuel into the combustion chamber of the ramjet or scramjet engines. In that case, those engines must not create as much friction heat as in the case of cold fuel for reaching the inflammation point. 

Otherwise, the aircraft’s body can involve air tunnels, and the cooler elements are connected to the critical points of the hypersonic aircraft. The idea is that the ram-air that travels in those tubes conducts temperature out from the shell and conducts it to the airflow. There are multiple things. That can help keep the temperature on the aircraft’s shell low enough. The hypersonic flight is the next-generation tool in missiles, bombers, and fighters. That allows the system to travel lower than satellites but almost as fast as a ballistic missile.

Today, there are hypersonic missiles that are single-use attack weapons. But the hypersonic systems can also give new abilities to the space systems and things like attack and reconnaissance aircraft. The next-generation reusable systems can increase the air force strike capacity to a very high level. A hypersonic missile that is launched from a hypersonic aircraft can be the next-generation attack system. In the same way, if the hypersonic aircraft attacks a target using a cannon, the result is devastating. 

But reusable hypersonic aircraft require a new type of advanced heat shield. The hypersonic jet fighter is much more difficult to make than a hypersonic missile. But technology is advancing. And that means that. The new hypersonic strike and reconnaissance aircraft can be airborne sooner than we expect. Or maybe they are already in service. 

https://www.rudebaguette.com/en/2025/07/they-flew-through-hellfire-chinas-new-heat-shield-shatters-thermal-limits-unlocking-next-level-hypersonic-speeds/

China and Russia might able to shoot down every JSTAR-aircraft in a day

E-8 Joint STAR
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The United States Air Force has faced the thing, that it's combat support aircraft like JSTAR radar aircraft are in danger, if the war begins. In here I must see one thing, what has been forgotten by those writers, who think that JSTAR has problems to accomplish their missions. Pentagon has seen those aircraft, and they also know the capacities and threats of that big four-engine aircraft, and here I must ask one question: is JSTAR actually meant to use in full-scale conflict? Some recon and intelligence platforms are operating in peacetime, but as we know that they would not the ability to survive in real war.


The same way we can say that AC-130 gunships would shoot down in the real war, where highly sophisticated forces would operate against U.S military. JSTAR is actually a radar platform, what mission is to locate underground bunkers and vehicles from the ground. The primary role for JSTAR is actually locating the vehicles by using radar, what it is quite difficult, and that system needs powerful computers to handle the data, what is collected by that radar system. In that case, the buildings, hills and other uneven parts of the ground are disturbing the radar, and hide those targets from the JSTAR-system.  JSTAR would also communicate with drones and other sensors, what are delivered to that combat area, and locate the enemies by those subsystems like Boeing Dominator or its successors.

Here I must say that those radars can also installed in any aircraft in the world, what means that B-2 or B-52 might have similar radars, what can locate enemy command bunkers. But as we might see, those four engine aircraft like JSTAR and it Russian opponent IL-18 "Coot A", are normally operate with fighter escort, and in the real world we could see that B-52 or Tu-95 "Bear" class nuclear bombers could be shot down very easily. And of course E-3 "Sentry's" and other radar surveillance platforms are good targets for anti-radiation missiles, but those platforms are used. As we know that there are always secrets, that are not told to normal people.


And somebody believes, that many of those four engine platforms are equipped with ADS (Active Denial System), what is similar to that used in tanks. That system is actually high-power microwave transmitter, what would be targeted to the incoming missiles, and the similar system is quite effective against the aircraft, what is making gun-attack against those four engine multi-mission platforms. There are rumors that next-generation Su-27 fighters have laser weapons because it would expand their strike capacity. Those microwave transmitters are targeting incoming missiles by using their infrared signature for aiming the transmitter to the target.


In some theories, those microwave transmitters can be very dangerous also for aircraft, what are using laser-weapons. The sensor detects the heat, what comes from combat aircraft laser weapons, and then targets microwave or laser ray to that plane. There is a chance to survive, if the user of active denial system has got more powerful microwaves or lasers in use, than attacking aircraft. But that is only the speculation about that kind of things.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_E-8_Joint_STARS

Boeing Dominator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d1ORgVjZto

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/05/18/air-force-secretary-china-russia-could-shoot-down-new-jstars-on-day-one-of-a-war/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebb%2021.05.18&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief


Picture I

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Innocence is the nice thing when someone wanted to work undercover.

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