War and sanctions: higher speed and almost a hundred foreign components - GUR studied the new "Geran-5 K5-K".
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine publishes an interactive 3D model and information about the components and almost a hundred foreign-made electronic components of the new modification of the Geranium-5. Russian K5-K on the portal "War& Sanctions.
At the beginning of autumn this year, the enemy began to use a new modification of the Geran-5 UAV, which, according to its aerodynamic scheme and tactical and technical characteristics, can already be classified as a small-sized cruise missile for attacks on Ukrainian cities.
GUR experts examined one of the samples used by the enemy, which for some reason landed almost intact in the middle of a Ukrainian field.
The "Gernium-5 K5-K" UAV, like its predecessor "Gernium-5", is built according to a standard aerodynamic scheme. The straight-swept main wing is positioned according to the top plan plan, the tail is single-keeled, with fixed stabilizers and a rudder.
The K5-K is shorter than the regular "Geranium-5" in length - 4 meters versus 6.5 meters and the wingspan - 3 meters versus 3.2 meters. The enemy also carried out work on improving the aerodynamic characteristics of the fuselage in order to increase the speed and altitude characteristics. The upper ceiling of the flight height increased from 5 to 6 km, the cruising speed increased to more than 450 km/h, and the maximum during certain maneuvers could reach 1,000 km/h. The range (1,000 km) and the weight of the warhead (90 kg) remained unchanged.
In particular, the TBBCH-90 thermobaric warhead was installed in a sample tested by GUR experts.
The avionics are the same as the latest versions of the Geran-4 Seeker Sail UAV - flight controller, SADRA Seeker inertial navigation system with MOX module, local copy of the Harxon GI-006 16-element CRP antenna, tracker, network modem, etc.
The studied sample was also equipped with the block of the new Sozlin optical-electronic correlation system, previously identified by the GUR in "Geranium-4".