The intelligence drone tested in Syria collapsed in the residential quarter in the Ryazan region, miraculously killing anyone (photo, video)

The unmanned aviation complex "Orion" of Russian production crashed 70 meters from an apartment building in the village of Listvyanka, Ryazan Region. According to the investigator in particularly important cases of the Moscow Interdistrict Investigation SU on the transport of Sergei Bubenev, it was an experimental sample that performed the test flight.

According to the preliminary version, there was a refusal of technology. “The weather was unlikely to influence, the side wind is possible,” Bubnov said, noting that the problems of the drone (UAV) began even before landing. “The collapse occurred at the crossroads of two paths, where local residents often walk. Nobody died miraculously,” an eyewitness told the Rzn.info portal.

The group "Overheard in Ryazan" on the social network VKontakte says that this is not the first case of the drone of the drone "in the garden", previously the collapse occurred in the neighboring village of Salkovo.

The Avia.pro portal, citing eyewitnesses, reports that during the flight, part of the fuselage fell off from the drone, and only after that the device began to fall. Presumably the UAV lost control, as a result of which he began to sharply lose height and rammed the top of the tree. Fragments of the fuselage fell a few meters from the playground.

The spokesman for the Governor of the Ryazan Region Denis Arapov said that the drone was supposed to land at the Protasovo runway, so all emergency services were ready. “But he did not fly, fell,” said Arapov RBC .

Work on the creation of an intelligence UAV began in 2011 as part of the development of the “foreigner”. As part of one complex "Orion" is from three to six UAVs, depending on the tasks set for them. The main areas of its application are air intelligence and patrolling, determination of the coordinates of objects and topographic survey of the area.

The maximum runway of the drone is 1 ton, the maximum weight of the payload is 200 kg. The complex is fully developed in Russia and built from domestic components. As reported by the Zvezda channel, this is the first UAV, the duration of which is more than a day.

It was first represented at the Max air show in Zhukovsky in 2017. At the Army-2018 Forum, the Kronstadt group demonstrated an armament control unit for drone and a prototype of ammunition of its own development weighing up to 50 kg, which can be equipped with various combat units.

In February 2019, the TASS source in the defense and industrial complex reported that in 2018, Orion was tested for the use of air bombs without specifying which brands of ammunition are being discussed. According to the interlocutor of the agency, then the drone visited Syria, but without the use of weapons.

In April, militants of the Hayyat Tahrir Ash Sham groups banned in Russia reported that Russian-made UPRPs allegedly struck the database of militants in the vicinity of the village of Khama Syrian province.

After the publication of the video with the drone , the Moscow Komsomolets cited the expert in the field of Denis Fedutinov’s unmanned systems that the Russian Ministry of Defense in recent years “demonstrates a progressive approach in relations with developers of promising weapons and military equipment. For example, many have not yet been adopted by the samples in real combat conditions in Syria.”

In August 2019, the general director of Kronstadt, Sergei Bogatikov, said that the serial production of the Orion Distributor for the Russian Army has already begun and in the future can reach 30 BPLs per year. The Ministry of Defense should receive one such complex for testing until the end of the current year. The TASS source in the military department said that the accident in the Ryazan region will not affect these plans. The company "Kronstadt" will help the investigation in the investigation of the crash.