Russia fields a variety of small and medium drone systems besides the Orlan, and is working apace to field larger drones for long-range strikes, aiming to get the first of them
“An Orlan complex — three drones, a truck and a ground-control station – is relatively cheap,” says Bendett. However, the fundamental design of the Orlan seems sound — sound enough to be copied by Syrian rebels. What appear to be garage-built copies of the Orlan-10, reverse-engineered from crashed drones,
Thought they were on giant elastic bands for a second. Nearly as good as my childhood one 👍
Butthurt is strong in that article 😆