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Multirole unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Orlan-10 is actively used by the Russian Army in combat operations against Ukraine in the Donbas. According to the open sources, the system was developed by the Russian company Special Technology Center based in St Petersburg. The system makes part of the Russian unified tactical management system developed within the concept of network-centric warfare. However, it turned out that the Russians manufactured only the hull of the drone and the navigation receiver MNP-M7. However, even the receiver is based on the ADSP-BF534 chip produced by the American company Analog Devices. Other components, i.e. GPS tracker, starter generator, engine, ignition module, flight controller, telemetry transmission module and GPS module were produced in the USA, Germany, Japan, China and other countries. These components are dual-use goods, which Russia purchases to apply for military purposes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The drone fell into the waters of \u200b\u200bthe Azov Sea<\/h2>\n

Volunteers of the Army SOS team<\/strong><\/a> exclusively provided InformNapalm<\/strong><\/a> with a report describing the components of the Russian Orlan-10 UAV (side No. 10332) which crashed in the Azov Sea on November 6, 2016 off the coastal village of Melekine, Donetsk oblast. The flight logs published in the previous report<\/strong><\/a> indicated that this UAV had been repeatedly operated to conduct reconnaissance of the Ukrainian territory by the Russian army, beginning with the invasion of the Crimean peninsula. The drone was also used for reconnaissance flights over Ukrainian Donbas. It was launched from sites located in the occupied Crimea, as well as at the Russian military ranges in the Krasnodar Territory and Volgograd Oblast of Russia.<\/p>\n

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“Our technicians dismantled this drone to a cog, steamed the salt off the elements, read out all the boards and circuits<\/em>“, commented the Army SOS<\/a> volunteers.<\/p>\n

Through this painstaking work, we found out what components the Russian Orlan-10 drone consists of.<\/p>\n

Orlan-10 in detail<\/h2>\n

GPS Tracker<\/strong><\/p>\n

The GPS-tracker is located at 100\/150 mm from the wing stub compartment. It is powered by an external and built-in battery. There was no SIM card in the data transmission module, the tracker must have been preprogrammed for certain operators. Microchips with the marking HC4060 2H7A201<\/strong> and STC<\/strong> 12LE5A32S2 35i<\/strong><\/a> were made in China.<\/p>\n

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Starter-generator<\/strong><\/p>\n

PTN78020<\/strong> was manufactured by the American company Texas Instruments Incorporated<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Engine, ignition module<\/strong><\/p>\n

The internal combustion engine with the 4,8-9V, 500mA ignition module was manufactured by the Japanese company SAITO<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flight controller<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is assembled around STM32F103 QFP100<\/strong><\/a> chip made by the Franco-Italian manufacturer STMicroelectronics<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>The MPXA4115A<\/strong> and MPXV5004DP<\/strong> microcircuits made by the American company Freescale Semiconductor<\/strong> are used as pressure sensors (the company is currently owned by the Dutch NXP Semiconductors NV<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/strong>The compass sensor HMC6352<\/strong><\/a> was manufactured by the American company Honeywell.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Flight controller assembly<\/em><\/p>\n

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Telemetry transmission module<\/strong><\/p>\n

The module was built on the ATxmega256A3<\/strong><\/a> microcontroller made by the American company Microchip,<\/strong> its transmission range is 902-928MHz. \u00a0RF3110<\/strong><\/a> transmitter was made by the German company Municom<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>DP1205-C915<\/strong><\/a> receiver was made by the German company AnyLink<\/strong> and has a sticker of its Russian distributor ImoTech<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>The antenna installed inside the tail is a classic quarter-wave dipole at 915 MHz with vertical polarization.<\/p>\n

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GPS module<\/strong><\/p>\n

The module is based on the GLONASS\/GPS\/QZSS receiver LEA-6N<\/strong><\/a> made by the Swiss company u-blox<\/strong> paired with the Russian-made MNP-M7<\/strong><\/a> (built on the ADSP-BF534<\/strong><\/a> American chip made by Analog Devices<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

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As of January 2018, nine drones of this type have been documented lost in Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts. Of these, 3 crashed through system failures caused by the Ukrainian EW operations, and 6 Orlan-10 drones were shot down with small arms and air defense systems.<\/p>\n

Through hacked documents<\/strong><\/a> of the reconnaissance commander of the so-called 2nd Army Corps of Luhansk People\u2019s Republic (LPR) retrieved by the Ukrainian Cyber \u200b\u200bAlliance hackctivists, it was established that the UAV crew consisted of regular Russian servicemen. Each drone flight was documented by an intelligence report addressed to the reconnaissance commander of the 12th Reserve Command of Russian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>By\u00a0Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a>\u00a0and Roman Burko<\/a>\u00a0specially for InformNapalm<\/p>\n

Translated by Evgeniy Kalashnik, edited by Artem Velichko
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According to the open sources, the system was developed by the Russian company Special Technology Center based in St Petersburg. The system makes part of the Russian unified tactical management system developed within the concept of network-centric warfare. However, it turned out that the Russians manufactured only the hull of the drone and the navigation receiver MNP-M7. However, even the receiver is based on the ADSP-BF534 chip produced by the American company Analog Devices. Other components, i.e. GPS tracker, starter generator, engine, ignition module, flight controller, telemetry transmission module and GPS module were produced in the USA, Germany, Japan, China and other countries. These components are dual-use goods, which Russia purchases to apply for military purposes.<\/strong>\r\n<h2>The drone fell into the waters of \u200b\u200bthe Azov Sea<\/h2>\r\nVolunteers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/armysos.com.ua\/\"><strong>Army SOS team<\/strong><\/a> exclusively provided <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/42114-orlan-10-pod-mikroskopom\/\"><strong>InformNapalm<\/strong><\/a> with a report describing the components of the Russian Orlan-10 UAV (side No. 10332) which crashed in the Azov Sea on November 6, 2016 off the coastal village of Melekine, Donetsk oblast. The flight logs <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/volunteers-russia-violating-ukraine-s-airspace-since-2014\/\"><strong>published in the previous report<\/strong><\/a> indicated that this UAV had been repeatedly operated to conduct reconnaissance of the Ukrainian territory by the Russian army, beginning with the invasion of the Crimean peninsula. The drone was also used for reconnaissance flights over Ukrainian Donbas. It was launched from sites located in the occupied Crimea, as well as at the Russian military ranges in the Krasnodar Territory and Volgograd Oblast of Russia.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-3.jpg\" \/>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Our technicians dismantled this drone to a cog, steamed the salt off the elements, read out all the boards and circuits<\/em>\", commented the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/armia.sos\/\">Army SOS<\/a> volunteers.\r\n\r\nThrough this painstaking work, we found out what components the Russian Orlan-10 drone consists of.\r\n<h2>Orlan-10 in detail<\/h2>\r\n<strong>GPS Tracker<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe GPS-tracker is located at 100\/150 mm from the wing stub compartment. It is powered by an external and built-in battery. There was no SIM card in the data transmission module, the tracker must have been preprogrammed for certain operators. Microchips with the marking <strong>HC4060 2H7A201<\/strong> and <strong>STC<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcmcu.com\/datasheet\/stc\/stc-ad-pdf\/stc12c5a60s2-english.pdf\"><strong>12LE5A32S2 35i<\/strong><\/a> were made in China.\r\n\r\n[su_slider source=\"media: 12502,12503,12504\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>Starter-generator<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>PTN78020<\/strong> was manufactured by the American company <strong>Texas Instruments Incorporated<\/strong>\r\n\r\n[su_slider source=\"media: 12506,12507,12508\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>Engine, ignition module<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe internal combustion engine with the 4,8-9V, 500mA ignition module was manufactured by the Japanese company <a href=\"http:\/\/saito-engines.info\/specifications.html\"><strong>SAITO<\/strong><\/a>.\r\n\r\n[su_slider source=\"media: 12509,12510\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>Flight controller<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIt is assembled around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.st.com\/en\/microcontrollers\/stm32f103.html?querycriteria=productId=LN1565\"><strong>STM32F103 QFP100<\/strong><\/a> chip made by the Franco-Italian manufacturer <strong>STMicroelectronics<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The <strong>MPXA4115A<\/strong> and <strong>MPXV5004DP<\/strong> microcircuits made by the American company <strong>Freescale Semiconductor<\/strong> are used as pressure sensors (the company is currently owned by the Dutch <strong>NXP Semiconductors NV<\/strong>).<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The compass sensor <a href=\"https:\/\/aerocontent.honeywell.com\/aero\/common\/documents\/myaerospacecatalog-documents\/Missiles-Munitions\/HMC6352.pdf\"><strong>HMC6352<\/strong><\/a> was manufactured by the American company <strong>Honeywell.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n[su_slider source=\"media: 12513,12514\"]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<em>Flight controller assembly<\/em>\r\n\r\n[su_slider source=\"media: 12515,12516\"]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<strong>Telemetry transmission module<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe module was built on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microchip.com\/wwwproducts\/en\/ATxmega256A3\"><strong>ATxmega256A3<\/strong><\/a> microcontroller made by the American company <strong>Microchip,<\/strong> its transmission range is 902-928MHz. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.municom.de\/gfx\/lager\/RF3110%5b1%5d.pdf\"><strong>RF3110<\/strong><\/a> transmitter was made by the German company <strong>Municom<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eltech.spb.ru\/files\/item\/DP1205AN-V01.pdf\"><strong>DP1205-C915<\/strong><\/a> receiver was made by the German company <strong>AnyLink<\/strong> and has a sticker of its Russian distributor <strong>ImoTech<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The antenna installed inside the tail is a classic quarter-wave dipole at 915 MHz with vertical polarization.\r\n\r\n[su_slider source=\"media: 12517,12518\"]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<strong>GPS module<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe module is based on the GLONASS\/GPS\/QZSS receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.u-blox.com\/sites\/default\/files\/products\/documents\/LEA-6N_DataSheet_(GPS.G6-HW-12003).pdf\"><strong>LEA-6N<\/strong><\/a> made by the Swiss company <strong>u-blox<\/strong> paired with the Russian-made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irz.ru\/products\/12\/262.htm\"><strong>MNP-M7<\/strong><\/a> (built on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analog.com\/en\/products\/processors-dsp\/blackfin\/adsp-bf534.html#product-overview\"><strong>ADSP-BF534<\/strong><\/a> American chip made by <strong>Analog Devices<\/strong>).\r\n\r\n[su_slider source=\"media: 12520,12519\"]\r\n\r\nAs of January 2018, nine drones of this type have been documented lost in Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts. Of these, 3 crashed through system failures caused by the Ukrainian EW operations, and 6 Orlan-10 drones were shot down with small arms and air defense systems.\r\n\r\nThrough hacked <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/reconnaissance-commander-of-the-2nd-army-corps-in-the-focus-of-the-uca-part-1-orlan-10-drone\/\"><strong>documents<\/strong><\/a> of the reconnaissance commander of the so-called 2nd Army Corps of Luhansk People\u2019s Republic (LPR) retrieved by the Ukrainian Cyber \u200b\u200bAlliance hackctivists, it was established that the UAV crew consisted of regular Russian servicemen. Each drone flight was documented by an intelligence report addressed to the reconnaissance commander of the 12th Reserve Command of Russian Armed Forces.\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/InformNapalm_logo_05.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"44\" \/>\u00a0<\/em>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100010235495201\">Mikhail Kuznetsov<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/burkonews\">Roman Burko<\/a>\u00a0specially for InformNapalm<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Translated by Evgeniy Kalashnik, edited by Artem Velichko\r\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons \u2014 Attribution 4.0 International \u2014 CC BY 4.0<\/a>)<\/h5>\r\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Repost and share with friends.\r\nFor notifications about InformNapalm investigations follow us on\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/informnapalm24\/\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InformNapalm\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/informnapalm\">Telegram<\/a>.<\/h5>","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12521,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions\/12521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}