Russian missiles have a habit of "falling" on the heads of the russians themselves on the territory of the russian federation near populated areas, but this time the occupiers decided to "drop" a drone on their heads as well.
Judging by the photo circulating on Internet, this is not some ordinary small reconnaissance drone, but a medium-sized reconnaissance and strike Forpost-RU UCAV, that crashed yesterday evening, January 11, in the Belgorod region, in the area of the settlement of Severny.
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The UAV that was flying to bomb Ukraine fell on the territory of russia directly on the power lines, cutting them and temporarily leaving the residents of the surrounding settlements without electricity and water. The photo shows that the crashed drone was armed with a KAB-20S HE-FRAG guided bomb.
The cause of the fall is still unknown. It could probably be a technical malfunction or an operator error.
It should be noted that this is not the first case of a crash of this type of UCAV since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation to Ukraine. In July 2022, a similar UAV fell on a residential building in the russian city of Taganrog.
The cost of the Forpost-RU UCAV is about 6 million dollars. Forpost UAV is essentially a russian copy of the Israeli Searcher Mk II UAV, the reconnaissance version of which the russians began assembling back in 2012 at their Ural Civil Aviation Plant. At the same time, Forpost-RU is a reconnaissance-strike modification of this UAV, which is modified to drop ammunition.
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