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"Like a whole aircraft flying": an expert told how dangerous for the Armed Forces new Russian drones

The Ukrainian air defense forces are already working to identify and destroy these little Russian drones in cheap ways, Valery Romanenko says. The new drones that Russia has been attacking Ukraine recently reflect the radar signal and thus force air defense for the small drone of expensive anti -aircraft missiles. This was told by the air expert, leading researcher of the State Aviation Museum Valery Romanenko on the air of the TV channel "Kiev" on Monday, October 23.

According to him, Russia has already used such unmanned aircraft in May and June. Then the Ukrainian military managed to knock down three copies, which experts began their work. "Literally three drones were found in this condition. One was civilian cameras, cameras stood. It was like" eagles "stood Canon. Just to transmit information on the route. And there were angular reflectors whose task was to reflect the radar signal as much as possible.

Show what to show what It is not a small drone, but to repel a signal, as if a whole aircraft is flying here, "said Valery Romanenko. He added that now the main task for the Air Force forces is to learn how to distinguish this type of drones and destroy it in the cheapest way, using mobile groups, machine guns and lightweight anti -aircraft guns.

We will remind, on October 23 the speaker of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat evaluated new drones-"lawn" with the Russian Federation. According to him, such drones are created from available materials and components, they can be bought on the Internet, and the glider is made in air -molding clubs. A little earlier, it became known that Russia's troops use unusual drones of "Strecoz". They are equipped with a tricky warhead that can be used to blast the detected mines.