Ukrainian Hornet high-altitude attack UAVs were shot down over the Novorossiya highway

Russian military personnel eliminated four types of heavy drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) over the R-280 Novorossiya highway, which were heading deep into Russia. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed relevant footage on June 30.

"Aircraft-type high-altitude attack UAVs (so-called heavy drones) were shot down over the R-280 Novorossiya highway The Ukrainian Armed Forces, sent by the enemy deep into the territory of Russia," the ministry said in a statement.

It is noted that the operation to identify the devices was carried out by calculations of a separate brigade of troops of the Varyag unmanned systems. Small arms and ramming calculations of air defense systems (air defense) were involved in its framework. The targets of the fighters of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were Hornet model drones manufactured in the USA, as well as FP-1, Beaver and Maya drones.

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On the same day, a senior technician of unmanned systems of the 11th army corps of the North group of forces with the call sign Omsk spoke about the futile attempts of Ukrainian militants to distract domestic air defenses. He stated that they were trying to overload the system by sending dummy drones, also called "trubolets", in its direction. This name, as he explained, was given to such devices, since they are made from sewer pipes.