Telegram channel named the type of drone shot down near Kaluga

After an analysis of the wreckage of the UAV, which was neutralized in the Kaluga region, carried out by specialists, it was identified. Arrivals of such devices have already been recorded in the region.

Telegram channel Shot named the type of shot down near Kaluga drone. It turned out to be the Tu-141 Swift, created in the USSR.

The same drone was shot down by Russian air defense in the sky of the Kaluga region on May 17. Its wreckage was soon discovered near the highway. And in February, a similar device, which also flew into this Russian region, caught on a tree in the forest and collapsed. Another "Strizh" was shot down in March in the neighboring Tula region - in Kireevsk.

Information about today's fall drone near Kaluga has not yet received official confirmation. It is noted that having fallen, the device exploded, the fragments scattered within a radius of one hundred meters, and a wide funnel formed at the site of the explosion. However, no people were hurt.

The size of the resulting funnel is three by four meters. It can be assumed that the explosion occurred as a result of the detonation of the fuse from hitting the surface.

Shortly before that, the Kaluga governor Vladislav Shapsha reported about the fall of an unknown object in the Dzerzhinsky district.

Initially, the Tu-141 "Strizh" was not intended to be used as a kamikaze drone. But the Ukrainian military has upgraded it to perform similar tasks. To do this, they install additional fuel tanks on the UAV and fill the body of the device with explosives. The converted Swift is capable of covering distances of up to a thousand kilometers.

Comments

[ASM]

Something tells me that a shaved n * tan cannot do without sweaty arms. Already in terms of binding / broadcasting and guidance systems for sure.

[Sasha from Uralmash]

Oh, here it is! Soviet Union did it! It can still fly! But since such a thing, it’s bad for drug addicts to know from UAVs! But they will have one end! They try in vain!

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: Sasha from Uralmash

Oh wow! Soviet Union made a hit!

Backlog Soviet Union did, yes, good.
It was a mistake to move the key points of development and production beyond the borders of deep Russia, that is, from the Urals and beyond the Urals.
To help both correctly and well, to flirt with helping is both bad and fraught.

[Greg Miller]

The leadership of the USSR, when building factories, did not think that we could have a counter-revolution in 1991. And what "new democratic" Russia inherited from the USSR was, for the most part, unfortunately destroyed.

[Rumata]

Quote: DymOk_v_dYmke

It was a mistake to move the key points of development and production beyond the borders of deep Russia, that is, from the Urals and beyond the Urals.

Do you really think that at least someone before 1991 could have come up with the idea that the USSR would collapse?
And endured because it was economically profitable. For example, capital construction in the Ukraine is almost half as expensive as in the Urals, where the climate is sharply continental. + There is ore, coal, electricity, labor ....

[alexandre II]

Mr. Rumata, I will add with your permission, if someone said that there would be a war between Russia and Ukraine, then this person would go to hell ...

[Bledar]

So you need to express concern by sighing Iskander at the place of production of these Swifts

[faterdom]

They have not been produced for a long time, all were produced in the Soviet time for aerial reconnaissance and were equipped, in my opinion, with film cameras.

[Rumata]

Quote: faterdom

They have not been produced for a long time, all were produced in the Soviet time

They were riveted in Kharkov 40 years ago. What are they doing there now? Maybe it's worth gasping for the remnants of HAZ?

[Bingo]

Quote: Rumata

Maybe it's worth gasping for the remnants of HAZ?

Firstly, it has been standing for a long time, and secondly, there is no money to build them, they are remodeling old buildings, and they have been riveted more than the Americans have released Tomahawk-type missiles in Iraq in total for the entire time

[Rumata]

Initially, the Tu-141 "Strizh" was not intended to be used as a kamikaze drone.

That's what it was originally intended to be!
They started it while Andrei Nikolayevich was still alive, but the generals decided that it was very expensive and their son managed to save the project as a scout.

[alystan]

And in February, a similar device, which also flew into this Russian region, caught on a tree in the forest and collapsed.

Who is the author of the opus? What kind of mighty tree could hook the Swift in the forest so that it collapsed?

Tu-141 Swift
Length - 14,33 m
Wingspan - 3,88 m
Full weight - 5 370 kg
Cruising speed - 1000 km / h
Practical ceiling - 6000 m
Minimum flight altitude - 50 m

The tallest tree in Russia - Nordmann Fir 60 meters high.
Recognized as a natural monument and included in the National Register of Old-growth Trees of Russia.

[Bingo]

I'll tell you a secret, The middle lane is not a flat steppe, but very hills. At 50 meters at a speed of under 1000 km, even without trees, it can stick into a hill, but with trees it is more reliable

[alystan]

Are you the author of the article? I noticed nonsense in the text.

clinging to a tree in the forest and collapsed

And can you give many examples of how drones of this caliber fell clinging to trees? Or in the hills. It seems like they are sharpened to go around them.

Then I will tell you a secret, "Strizh" is still a drone, but there have been cases when manned aircraft crashed into the slopes of the mountains. Superjet in Malaysia, for example.

[Bingo]

Meanwhile...

And their slaves:

Who did not understand, on the last - Patriot in Kueva

[bukhach]

The rocket is somehow weak, neither the Russian tricolor, nor the inscription for identification, such as "Dagger" or "Caliber", they are not trying hard.

[notingem]

Drone? Strange. I think it's a cruise missile. Or do they completely change the terms?