The Russian Ministry of Defense at the Army-2022 forum on Wednesday, August 17, for the first time demonstrated the Turkish Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle, shot down during a special military operation to protect civilians in Donbass.
It is noted that the object was liquidated by Russian air defense means in the area of the settlement of Svatovo of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR). The drone was armed with guided bombs MAM-L and MAM-C.
Bayraktar has been here almost since the first day the exhibition opened. I think it is being demonstrated for the first time. <..> it was almost in a destroyed state, it was restored a little, it was repaired — ready for display," Lieutenant Colonel Anton Hapersky, a teacher at the Military Academy of Aerospace Defense, told TASS.
On August 16, the equipment seized from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) was exhibited in the Patriot Park. Previously, access to the exhibition is open only to delegations, but on August 20 it will work for everyone.
The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" has been held since August 15 at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center in Kubinka, Moscow region. During the event, contracts are signed for the manufacture and supply of the latest Russian weapons to the armed forces.
Russia has been conducting a special operation to protect Donbass since February 24. The situation in the region worsened in mid-February due to shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Since 2014, the Ukrainian authorities have been conducting military operations in the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, whose residents refused to recognize the results of the coup in Ukraine.
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