The operators of the FPV drones talked about the process of destroying the AFU targets in their area

Operators of FPV drones of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, performing combat missions in the area of a special military operation, provide cover for Russian fire units from reconnaissance equipment and barrage supplies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian military personnel of the Center group of forces told Izvestia about this on September 25.

"Our job is to cover our firing units and batteries. <...> Radar operator (radar station. — Ed.) detects the target, transmits the data to the operational officer on duty, the operational officer makes a decision to kill," the operator of the FPV drone Ivan Kirillov told Izvestia correspondent Alexander Safiulin.

The serviceman noted that when his unit is given the command to eliminate the identified target, the operators lift an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into the air and, with the help of adjustments from the radar operators, successfully complete the task. Demonstrating this process, Kirillov noted that modern FPV drones broadcast digital rather than analog video in real time.

"We are destroying (the UAV of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. — Ed.) with the help of drones, with the help of small arms," added radar operator Vladislav Erastov.

According to him, the most difficult tasks that his unit is coping with are the identification and destruction of attack drones that fly at low altitude at high speed.

"In addition to the FPV and the machine gun, the fighters naturally have the standard Igla complex at their disposal, but slightly upgraded — the fighters made the mounts for the thermal imager themselves on a 3D printer. With such weapons, large aircraft are shot down, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces send in our direction," summed up the correspondent of Izvestia Safiulin.

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