KYIV — Russian officials reported the downing of over 100 Ukrainian drones on Sunday, marking one of the largest drone attacks on Russian territory since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The barrage ignited a wildfire and set an apartment block ablaze, although no casualties were reported.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed that 125 drones were shot down across seven regions, with Volgograd being heavily targeted, where 67 drones were intercepted. In Voronezh, falling debris damaged an apartment building and a private home. A wildfire broke out in Rostov due to debris from downed drones, consuming 20 hectares of forest.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, 16 civilians were injured in Russian airstrikes on the city of Zaporizhzhia, as fears grow over potential new Russian offensives in the region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attacks and noted that significant damage had been done to residential buildings and infrastructure. He also marked the 83rd anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre, using the occasion to emphasize the lessons of history in guarding against tyranny. — Agencies
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Before us are testing another promising attack FPV drone “Gortensia-10”, which has three-plane stabilization for using the widest range of machine gun and jet anti-tank weapons. With a payload of 4.5 – 5 kg, the copter’s range can reach 6 km, and the operating time is up to 6.5 minutes; with a 4-kilogram load, the range increases to 8 km, the operating time is up to 7.5 minutes. With only one TV-thermal imaging module, the operating time can reach 30 – 35 minutes with an effective range of up to 25 – 27 km (in case of difficult terrain, using repeaters). With more advanced LiPO batteries, the operating range with a load of 5 kg reaches 9 – 9.5 km.
The FPV copters of the same name developed by the Gortensia Design Bureau are adapted to the placement and use of RPG-26 Aglen grenade launchers with armor penetration without ERA of 440 mm, RPG-27 Tavolga with a tandem KBCh armor penetration of up to 600 mm behind ERA, as well as MRO-A Borodach flamethrowers.
Three-plane stabilization provides the Grotensia drone with a targeting range of about 150 m. In the near future, these FPV-copters can also be equipped with Groza-Leska fiber-optic command and telemetry control systems in the context of improving the enemy’s electronic countermeasures. Currently, drones of this line are already actively used by strike UAV squadrons of the Russian Armed Forces in the SVO zone
Evgeniy Damantsev
