Enemy "Orlan" shot down near Bakhmut contains components produced in NATO countries. Russian Federation continues to obtain electronics for arming drones there, - Butusov. PHOTOS
Russia continues to obtain electronics from NATO countries to arm its drones.
Yurii Butusov, editor-in-chief of Censor.NET, writes about this on Facebook.
As noted, Ukrainian soldiers near Bakhmut shot down a Russian "Orlan"-type unmanned reconnaissance vehicle produced no earlier than August. When examining the wreckage, it became noticeable that the Russians continue to use components produced in NATO countries.
"This is a key element of the Russian "Orlan" - a four-element small-sized adaptive antenna array "Cometa-M", which allows the "Orlan" navigation system to operate in conditions of radio-electronic interference of satellite navigation satellite signals. If the Russians didn't have this block, it would actually be impossible to use the Orlan, because any EW constantly jammed the navigation system and the drone wouldn't be able to perform the task," the journalist writes.
According to him, this "Comet-M" was manufactured in July 2022.
"According to him, this "Comet-M" was manufactured in July 2022, it is unlikely that the Russian Federation has accumulated so many spare components, these are most likely new deliveries. This "Comet" uses components from American companies Altera/Intel, Taoglas, and Taiwanese Cirocomm.
The set is very similar to the similar equipment of Iranian Shahed drones. I hope that our allies will be able to reliably stop the supply of critical elements to the Russian Federation and Iran. And we need to develop our drone production program, we can get much better components and assemblies on world markets and in much larger quantities than the Russian Federation can do," Butusov adds.
