Reuters journalists report on the new Russian drone Harpy-A1, citing sources in an interview with one of the European countries. As reported, the agents managed to obtain documents constituting correspondence of the company producing the machines.
I'm talking about “Kupol” Electromechanical Plant. In the factories there, since July 2023, when production started, it was possible produce over 2.5 thousand drones.
According to experts, the first machines were most likely already used by the Russian military. Harpy drones can be used, together with Shahed drones, in mass shelling of military and civilian targets. Currently However, there is no confirmation of the use of this type of drones.
War in Ukraine. Massive use of drones Shahed
The matter was also commented on by Samuel Bandett, a representative of the US Naval Analysis Center. The analyst noted that the mass production of the Harpy-A1 will allow Russians to become independent from Iranian droneswhich until now were the most popular equipment of this type.
The importance of the Iranian-made Shahed drone as a weapon for the Russians is proven by subsequent information of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukrainewhich sum up a busy night of air defense systems.
On the night of September 13th the Russian military fired 26 drones of this type over Ukraine. Ukrainian units, according to an official statement, managed to shoot down 24 machineswhich were aimed at targets in the Mykolaiv, Odessa, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
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