TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS INTENDED FOR FIRE EXTINGUISHING IN HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
There are considered issues relating to the application of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as well as to search of effective ways of fire extinguishing under the conditions of high-rise development of settlements. In particular, the article is devoted to the development of technical requirements for UAS, which are supposed to be used at fire extinguishing. The relevance of the problem is explained by the development of high-rise house building in cities, which causes problems both in the field of fire safety of buildings and in the field of fire extinguishing on their upper floors and roofs. The work of firefighters inside a high-rise building is very problematic due to the shutdown of elevators, a large oncoming flow of evacuating personnel (people) and difficult fire-fighting conditions. In case of external fire extinguishing at the level of upper floors the work of firefighters using fire ladders is also either difficult or technically impossible. In addition, when staying on a high level firefighters face a great risk to their own lives. Therefore, one of the effective ways of fire extinguishing in such conditions can be the use of aviation technologies including using UAS. It is also suitable when weather conditions or the dense location of high-rise buildings do not allow to use fire helicopters as well as in order to accelerate the fire extinguishing process. Currently, there are several projects for the implementation of aviation fire extinguishing using UAS. But due to numerous disadvantages they have not implemented in practice yet . One of the main reasons is that development of technical requirements that should be applied to the technologies is still under consideration.