The locals claim that they heard the hum for a while, after which at about 23:15 they saw a bright flash in the sky, and at the same time light was switched off in the homes. According to the media, during the fall, the drone damaged the wires of the high -voltage power line, at the scene began the ignition. Militar journalists studied photographs of debris and suggested that in the Belgorod region the Russian reconnaissance and shot drone "Forpost-Ru" had crashed.
On the frames you can see the managed airbomb CAC-20C, which is carried by the UAV. "Forpost" ("Inohodist") is a copy of the Israeli drone Searcher Mkii, which is manufactured by the Ural Civil Aviation Plant in Yekaterinburg since 2012 under the official license. There is a reconnaissance and shock-reconnaissance version of this drone.
In 2019, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation introduced an improved UAV-Snack "Forpost-R" with a capacity of 500 kg, speed of up to 180 km/h, a flight duration of up to 18 hours, with a maximum height of 6 km. The developers said they created a modification in view of the experience of Russian troops obtained in Syria and Donbass. In 2021, the Russians showed a shock "outpost-ru", equipped with small rockets and managed bombs.
Russian Forpost drones were beaten in Ukraine until a full -scale invasion. One of them fighters of the Dnipro-1 special purpose regiment was landed in 2015 near the village of Vodyane, Donetsk region. After the full -scale war of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, drones became more common. One of the "outposts" of the Armed Forces was beaten in December 2022. It is known that such drones are used to find the techniques and positions of Ukrainian troops, as well as the artillery.
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