"Never produced": Spaitech developers exposed the lies of the Russians about the attacks

The Ukrainian enterprise Spaitech worked on Columba, but the project was frozen in 2015, and such drones have never been supplied by Ukraine's defense forces. On November 27, the Russians said for the second time that Ukrainians were using Solumba drones for the task of strikes in Russia. Pavel Grozov, director of LLC "Scientific and Production Enterprise", which developed the drones of the same name, denied this information in the focus comment.

Russian media Shot wrote that on Sunday, November 26, the air defense forces were beaten in the Tula region by Columba drone, equipped with 450 g C-4 and cumulative charge KZ-6. The media stated that the Ukrainian military was receiving Spanish drones, and then processing them into combat, increasing flight range and installing explosives on Spitek's "NPP" in Odessa.

According to Pavel Grozov, the UAV Columba, which was developed by Sputek "has no Spanish roots, and the Ukrainian manufacturer has heard nothing about the technique of the same name from Spain. The focus also found no mention of Spanish spaitech or other unmanned devices with the same name in open sources. "As of today, Sputetek does not produce UAVS Solumba, as it did not produce it before, this project was frozen at the concept stage in 2015," the company director emphasized.

"We have no idea about the origin of rumors about Spanish drones of Solumba, which the Russians spread. " He added that Sputek does not supply the Drones of Solumba forces of Ukraine's defense forces, but instead produce reconnaissance drones of Sparrow and Windhover used by the Armed Forces. Sparrow is a "flying wing" UAV with a monolithic structure that provides strength.

The housing is made of special composite materials that help the apparatus hide from radars and thermal imagers, and the electric engine allows you to fly very quietly. It is equipped with a gyrostabilized camera and thermal imaging, you can additionally install cameras, dosimeters or other sensors. Windhover is a tricopter that can be used under any climatic conditions both day and night.

It is equipped with a managed camcorder with 18 times optical zoom, satellite channel for communication and a reserve navigation system, can also transmit data through the Internet. Such a drone helps the military quickly receive data with the attachment of all the displayed objects to geographical coordinates and time. On November 16, Russia was first stated in Russia.