Warzone/The Drive: Russia's Predator-Style Drone With Big Export Potential Has Launched Its First Missiles
This class of drone is one of the hottest items on the world's arms market. With few competitors, Orion could prove to be a highly lucrative program.
Russia’s Orion unmanned aerial vehicle has reportedly fired guided missiles for the first time, marking a significant step toward the country deploying its first fully-operational armed drone. As well as missiles, the drone has reportedly also been recently tested with unpowered guided glide bombs. While the Russians have said that the Orion drone — also known by the project name Inokhodets, meaning pacer in Russian — has dropped guided glide bombs before, during combat trials in Syria in 2018, the launch of a powered weapon is a new development.
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WNU Editor: This drone may become a hot item on the world's arms market. But it still has a long way to go before it is fully operational.