Robert Farley
How is Russia keeping its industry and financial system afloat? By using the tools that terrorists, organized crime, and drug traffickers have perfected over decades to evade the surveillance of authorities in Europe and North America.
Russia’s Dirty Little Secret
A recent report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) detailed the foreign contributions to the production of the Russian Orlan 10 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
The Orlan 10 is a basic surveillance UAV, designed to locate Ukrainian forces and relay their position to shooters (missile launchers, artillery, aircraft) who can respond quickly before the Ukrainians relocate.
The Orlan 10 also suppresses enemy air defense (SEAD) missions, using sensors and electronic countermeasures to locate and target surface-to-air missile systems.
While these missions are basic (in ways that would have been intelligible to an artillery officer on the Western Front in World War I), the technology that allows the aircraft to function is quite advanced.
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