In Russia showed unmanned helicopters “Termit” with guided missiles

Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev visited the Rudnevo industrial park, where development work on the first domestic reconnaissance and strike UAV of helicopter-type Termit with laser-guided guided missiles is being completed.

During the visit Dmitry Medvedev was shown the first domestic reconnaissance and strike UAV of the helicopter-type “Termit”. The production of the Termit helicopter-type reconnaissance and strike UAV is being carried out by the Kronstadt conglomerate. The drone was developed before the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and is at a high level of readiness.

According to the developers, the helicopter-type drone is equipped with an observation and targeting station and is armed with 80-mm S-8L corrective air missiles. The missiles are equipped with a fragmentation-fuzed warhead and can effectively destroy stationary and mobile targets at a distance of up to 6 kilometres. “Termite” is able to go on the so-called free hunt, which involves an independent search for targets.

Specialists specified that the main advantage of “Termite” is in the possibilities of off-airfield basing and vertical take-off and landing, which allows the drone to be used from unprepared sites. Also among the advantages of the helicopter-type UAV can be attributed to the presence of composite fuselage, which allowed to significantly lighten the weight, and the presence of domestic internal combustion engine as part of the propulsion system.

We shall remind you that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation using a modernised Lancet kamikaze drone again hit an Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) at the Dolgintsevo military airfield in Krivoy Rog. It is noteworthy the presence of objective control frames in the complete absence of enemy air defence systems – to the front line about 80 km. Before that, a video of a barrage drone strike on a MiG-29 fighter aircraft of the Air Force in the Kryvyi Rih region was published.