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The drone of outpost shot down in the Donbass
On the Internet, a photo report on the assembly of the Russian drone “outpost” was found. As it turned out, at the footage of November 2013 with the Ural Civil Aviation Plant OJSC (UNGA, a member of OJSC Opronprom) captures the assembly of a drone with the factory number 923, which today shot down the Dnipro-1 regiment in the Donbass.
Today, fighters of the Dnepr-1 special forces regiment, as part of a joint operation with the CSO (Center for Special Operations), shot down in the Avdeevka area of the Russian Drivest Drive with the factory number 923.
As it turned out, in November 2013, the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies published a photo report on the assembly of drones at the Ural Civil Aviation Plant OJSC (UNGA, is part of OJSC Oponprom) in Yekaterinburg. By coincidence, the photo from the plant captures exactly that drone with the factory number 923, which was shot down by the Ukrainian military in the Donbass.
“The famous expert Denis Fedutinov, who specializes in unmanned aviation, also visited the assembly line of Israeli tactical intelligence unmanned aerial vehicles IAI Searcher MK II and the IAI Bird Eye 400, supplied to the Russian Armed Forces under the designations, respectively,“ Forpost ”and the IAI Bird Min. "Outpost." Denis Fedutinov kindly provided our blog with a photo report on the assembly of UAV “ORARCHER” (IAI Searcher Mk II) and “outpost” (IAI Bird Eye 400) on the Uzga, ”the blog said.
“A contract worth about $ 400 million in Russia in Russia for the development of the Israeli association ISRAEL Aerospace Industries (IAI) was concluded by OJSC Oboronprom in 2010. As part of the implementation of the contract, the assembly of tactical blah IAI Searcher Mk II (with the Russian name “outpost”) and the mini-blla IAI Bird Eye 400 (Russian name “outpost”) was organized. In 2011, the Ministry of Defense of Russia issued a contract for the supply of 10 complexes with UAV “OPOST” in 2011-2013 with a total value of 9.006 billion rubles (each complex includes a ground management station and three UAVs), and 27 complexes from a “outpost” type with a total value of 1.3392 billion rubles. The tests of the first in the UZGA OPOST and Zamosta were launched in December 2012, ”experts said.
“Gathered Tactical UAV“ Opeost ”(IAI Searcher Mk II) in the workshop of OJSC“ Ural Plant of Civil Aviation ”. Yekaterinburg, 11/11/2013 (c) Denis Fedinov, ” - a signature for the photo.
Tactical UAV "OPOST" with the factory number 923.
The engine of items "outpost" with a pushing screw. In the background you can see the "outpost" with the factory number 923
UAV "Opost" with the factory number 923 in the assembly workshop of the company Uzga
According to the Center for the Analysis of the World Trade of Weapons, in April 2009, two Israeli Searcher MK.2 UAVs were purchased by the Russian side for $ 12 million. Based on this, the cost of one UAV can be estimated at about $ 6 million.
Based on the updated state procurement data of the Russian Federation and the tender for the implementation of technical supervision of the operation of UAVs "Forpost" for the needs of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the numbers of military units were clarified, in the service of which these aircraft are located:
military unit 20924 (Kolomna, Moscow Region) - 2 complexes;
V/h 30866 (Chernyakhovsk, Kalinigrad region) - 2 complexes;
military unit 44936 (Budennovsk, Stavropol Territory and Mozdok, Republic of North Ossetia) - 2 complexes;
military unit 49324 (Severomorsk, Murmansk region) - 2 complexes;
military unit 69262 (Elizarovo, Kamchatka Territory) - 2 complexes.
(Note, data with the name of the military units were received from the documents of the State Committee of the D_goz_22 as amended on 04/17/2015 . In paragraph 3.2. “Places of implementation of the technical supervision of the operation of complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles“ Forpost ”are the scene of the work and recipients)
Recall that in the material of Informnapalm on May 8, 2015 “On the adventures of the company’s company’s company of the 19th motorized rifle brigade in Ukraine”, the profile of the Russian soldier Nikolai Belokobylenko, who lit up in the photo near the Donbass-Arena stadium (Donetsk, Ukraine) with several more military with weapons. It is noteworthy that this soldier was trained at the training center for specialists of unmanned aviation complexes (military unit 20924, Kolomna, Moscow Region, which appears among the military units in service with the OPOST BPL).
Thus, the Informnapalm team during the analysis and exploration of open sources of information (OSINT) received specific names of military units, whose servicemen can take part in ensuring the reconnaissance of the terrain for artillery and diversion-intelligence groups of the United Russian-Separatist Forces.