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April 17, 2022 11:34 am

Ukraine Opens Russian Drone, Finds Duct Tape and Canon DSLR Inside

Long-time Slashdot reader wired_parrot writes:After the Ukrainian army captured one of Russia's Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles, they decided to do a teardown of it. Their findings show a remarkable amount of jerry-rigged installations using off the shelf components, including the use of a Canon DSLR camera as the main image capturing sensor. Petapixel notes it's a camera first launched in 2015 "with a retail price of $750 but which is currently worth about $300 to $400 on the used market... The camera is mounted to a board with a hook-and-loop fastener strip (commonly referred to as Velcro)." The Ukranian Ministry of Defense posted a video showing one of one of its soldiers exploring the alleged Russian drone, and Petapixel shares more details and some screen grabs:The soldier notes how surprisingly low-tech the military drone is — observers quickly pointed out that certain aspects of it are more reminiscent of a hobbyist RC airplane project than a high-tech piece of military spying technology.... On the top of the drone, the fuel tank's cap suggests that it may have been made from some kind of plastic water bottle. Various parts of the drone are also fixed together with some kind of duct tape.

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