The servicemen of the DPR army in the area of the settlement Bezymennoe on the coast of the Sea of Azov shot down a Ukrainian-made UAV RQ-11B Raven, reports bmpd with reference to the resource rusnext.ru.
The device has a serial number 22891. In February, a similar UAV RQ-11B Raven with serial number 23018 was captured on the territory of the LC.
The publication reminds that "24 complex of the UAV RQ-11B Raven (72 apparatus) was transferred to the United States in the summer of 2016 as part of a package of American military assistance to Ukraine." The complexes were manufactured in accordance with a contract worth $ 9 million, issued by the Pentagon of AeroVironment Inc.
UAVs were supplied through the line of intergovernmental foreign military sales Foreign Military Sales (FMS). Funding was provided from a special fund of the US defense budget.
According to the author of the material, “Kiev received the RQ-11B Raven UAV with an outdated analog communication system (without Digital Data Link datalink), vulnerable to interception and counteraction by means of EW, which, according to a statement made by the representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, combined with a short range, made these UAVs unsuitable for practical use in combat. "
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