Thread by @HeliosRunner

1/ Combat Falcon-300 & maritime kamikaze drone: details of Ukrainian #UAV developments revealed:

#Moscow area & St. Petersburg allegedly could fall into the zone of damage of the Ukrainian Sokil-300 drone.
The Sokil-300 combat drone was developed in #Ukraine and seems now to be

2/ effective. New Ukr #Drones (sea kamikaze drone & Sokil-300 aviation combat drone) are (could) reportedly changing the course of hostilities according to this expert.
ua.linkedin.com/in/anatoliy-am…
Anatoliy #Amelin, an expert of the Ukrainian Institute of the Future, in a column on

3/ the Norwegian Broadcasting Company , revealed the tactical and technical characteristics of the two "coolest Ukrainian developments", noting that Moscow and St. Petersburg fall now into the zone of damage of the Sokil-300 drone.
reminder :

4/ Ukrainian naval kamikaze drone: characteristics as we know it:

cost: UAH 10 million ($250,000)
radius of action: up to 400 km
range: up to 800 km
warhead: up to 200 kg
speed: up to 80 km/h

and the Aviation combat drone "Sokil-300": characteristics are :

5/cost: about $2 million (which is not a lot)
flight range: 1300-3300 km
maximum speed: 580 km/h
maximum flight duration: up to 26 hours.
payload mass: 300 kg.
weapons: guided missiles of the RK-2P, R2-M and RK-10 types with a range of up to 10 km.

6/ "The drone is designed for conducting reconnaissance and striking at operational and tactical depth of the enemy. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Grozny & even Perm in the Urals fall into the affected zone, the expert noted."
Simple talk or indirect message out there?

7/ now the 2 important things to note is that they certainly have received a lot of help to finish up with the development of that model and like for the maritime drone as he speaks of it, it has been employed in several occasion now, for him to talk freely like that about it..

8/ Also now, we may also consider that some critical parts and elec should certainly comes from "declassified/non-sensitive" stocks some countries (US/UK?) had in stock to be able to be "send on Ru soil" and yet still effective enough in order to be "secured/reliable" enough to

9/ perform as intended in a clearly really harsh elec warfare environment and to be able to sustain indirect electronic attacks and also to be reliable enough about the onboard nav system to perform his (partly?) automated task...

10/ side note. yes it would be great to have a "graph" and complete study of it's distance limits/capability vs load and for the diff seasons of the year and altitude and maneuverability etc... but calm down! because it is of course quite classified 😅😅😉

11/ also we don't have (and this would be a BIG part of the talk) any explanations of were it is produced or partly pre-produced (as right now UKR is augmenting everywhere it's partnership with other countries in terms of help with weapons systems and final items) & also volumes!

12/ some questions in DM: chek here for "answers"
armour.gr/catalogues/pdf…

13/ or here for some infos about missiles :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skif_(ant…
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issuu.com/ukrainian_defe…