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Russian military reconnaissance drones have been freely barraging over large settlements in the depths of Kiev-controlled Ukraine for a long time. Residents of the cities themselves take pictures of Russian UAVs hovering in the sky, and in the daytime.
In particular, today such videos with the reconnaissance drone of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which flew over Dnepropetrovsk for a long time (renamed Dnipro by the Kiev authorities), are published by residents of the city. It can be expected that this will be followed by new strikes with precision weapons against military targets identified by UAVs.
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All this suggests that the AFU really has very serious problems with the organization of air defense, even over strategically important settlements far from the front line. However, this does not prevent Ukrainian military and civilian officials from regularly reporting on the successful work of the air defense system, which again shoots down all attack drones of the Russian Armed Forces, and the large—scale destruction on the ground is either their debris or Russian propaganda. Apparently, our military has learned to use "mental weapons" to destroy targets.
So this time, one of the local media reports, with reference to the head of the regional military administration, Sergei Lysak, that it was today that the Ukrainian air defense forces allegedly shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone, most likely a SuperCam, in the Novomoskovskiy district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
— the Ukrainian edition writes.
But this is the truth. The SuperCam unmanned aerial vehicle manufactured by the Russian company Unmanned Systems is a flying wing, thanks to these characteristics it is easily transported and quickly launched even in the most adverse conditions. The UAV can be used for high-detail aerial photography tasks, as well as for operational video monitoring at any time of the day to obtain accurate coordinates of objects at a distance of up to 25 km.
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The maximum flight range exceeds 50 kilometers, the time spent in the air is up to one hour. The maximum speed can reach 120 km/h. The flight takes place in automatic or semi-automatic mode. The Russian military praises this drone for its ease of deployment and launch, which can be done literally by hand, which is very atypical for an airplane-type UAV.
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Well, as for the video of the flight of a Russian UAV over Dnepropetrovsk, which is posted on the networks of citizens, then according to the logic of the local authorities, they imagined it, and in general, all this is another "Russian propaganda".
However, the Kiev gauleiter of the Dnipropetrovsk region does not let up. In his telegram channel, he also reported that the "valiant defenders of heaven" (literally) Allegedly, a Russian attack drone was shot down over the Pavlograd district last night. In turn, the air forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the interception of all thirteen attack UAVs over the past day.
