A military official explained why drones equipped with parachutes appeared over Kharkiv
A drone recently fell in the Saltivsky district of Kharkiv after landing via parachute. It could be either a Russian reconnaissance UAV or one of ours returning from a mission.
Major Dmytro Kyryshun, commander of the “Archangel” UAV battalion of the 114th Airborne Brigade, noted in a comment to RBC-Ukraine that such aircraft are launched from a catapult, and the parachute opens during landing to prevent damage to the equipment. According to the military official, the Ukrainian army also has such systems, with certain drone models featuring a similar return mechanism.
There is virtually no threat to the civilian population from such devices, as the parachute serves exclusively to protect the device itself. The major emphasized that these are reconnaissance drones, which are not designed to carry a combat payload that could harm people during descent. The detection of such UAVs is a routine matter, not the introduction of fundamentally new technologies in reconnaissance operations. Currently, such landing mechanisms remain the standard solution for preserving the expensive optics and fuselages of reconnaissance systems.
On the morning of March 26, Russian occupation forces carried out another attack on Kharkiv, using Shahed-type strike drones.
As a reminder, the Russians attacked energy facilities in Slavutych and cut off power to the entire city.
