The Armed Forces destroyed the rare Russian drone "Orion": conducted intelligence and struck

Strape-scoring UAVs are armed with air launchers and managed airbugs. The Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down Russian drones "Orion" and "Orlan-10". The press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported in the morning summary, published on Facebook on February 10. During the day, February 9, three enemy drones were shot down over Ukraine: two "Orlan-10" and one "Orion".

The Air Force press service in Telegram supplemented that Orion was affected at about 3:00 pm in the sky over the Kherson region. Such drones are rarely knocked down by Ukrainian air defense. Orion's reconnaissance and shot drone is designed for intelligence and monitoring with built-in cameras. In addition, it can attack land targets with rockets and airbags. They are produced by the Russian defense company Kronstadt and positions as an analogue of the Turkish Bayraktar.

The enterprise produces aircraft in several modifications, the version for the Russian army is called "Orion" or "Inochod". They are equipped with various amounts of reconnaissance, as well as ammunition: Air Earth missiles, CAC-20, CAC-50 Aviation Bombs, or UPAB-50-controlled airbags. "Orion" can be distinguished from other Russian UAVs on the white "cap" in the front of the fuselage - there is a satellite module for the execution of missions at long distances.

Due to this equipment, they do not require constant exchange of signals with the ground control station. Known characteristics of the drone "Orion-e" ("Inochod") The last known case of knocking down the drone "Orion" occurred in December 2022. According to the South Air Command, it had to strike for targets in the Kherson region. Before that, it was written by the Russian UAV "Orion" more dangerous than Iranian drones-Kamikadze Shahd.