
Since the beginning of September, crews of interceptor drones and mobile fire groups of the 11th Army Corps of the North group have destroyed more than 35 attack and reconnaissance aircraft-type UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on approach to the Volchansky Cauldron in the Kharkov region, using FPV drones with high-explosive fragmentation warheads to hit targets day and night.
AI-generated summary
Since the beginning of September, Russian forces of the North group have been using interceptor drones and mobile fire groups to destroy Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs near the line of combat contact in the Kharkov region.
Brief retelling from RIA II
Crews of interceptor drones and mobile fire groups of the 11th Army Corps of the “North” group destroy attack and reconnaissance UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces while approaching the “Volchansky Pocket”.
Since the beginning of September, more than 35 aircraft-type UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been shot down.
FPV drones are equipped with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, which allows you to completely disable the main components and assemblies of an enemy drone.
BELGOROD, September 28 - RIA Novosti. Crews of interceptor drones and mobile fire groups of the 11th Army Corps of the North group are destroying strike and reconnaissance UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces even on approach to the Volchansky Cauldron, having shot down more than 35 such devices since the beginning of September, an officer with the call sign Map told RIA Novosti.
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“Drones are also destroyed on approach to encircled enemy forces in the Volchansky Cauldron of the Kharkov region and the security buffer zone. The positions of interceptor drones are located in close proximity to the line of combat contact. This makes it possible to destroy attack UAVs and reconnaissance drones, aircraft-type drones while approaching the main positions,” said the head of planning and countering UAVs of the 11th Army Corps of the North group of forces.
According to him, since the beginning of September, crews of interceptor drones and mobile fire groups of the corps have destroyed more than 35 aircraft-type attack and reconnaissance UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Round-the-clock monitoring of airspace makes it possible to detect aircraft UAVs even above the security buffer zone and promptly transmit their coordinates to crews.
Karta noted that FPV drones are equipped with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, thanks to which the ram can completely disable the main components and assemblies of an enemy drone. Mobile fire groups are on duty around the clock along the expected flight routes of air targets. As the interlocutor emphasized, military personnel travel in vehicles with machine-gun turrets and thermal imaging optics and are ready to hit targets both day and night.

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