Cessna aircraft on the red square in Moscow. Image courtesy: Twitter
Kyiv: Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a government official in Kyiv claimed that the country’s armed forces now own thousands of attack UAVs with a flight range of over 3,000 km.
Called the Ukrainian swarm, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been named after Mathias Rust — a peace activist who landed a Cessna on the red square in Moscow in 1987, according to several social media handles.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, shared the news on Twitter along with the photograph of Cessna on the red square in Moscow.
A Twitter user claimed that the only drone with such flight range is the Sokil-300 (long-range version).
The user further shared that Ukraine has been developing this for the past one year. It includes technology used in the Neptune missile system, the user noted.
Who was Mathias Rust?
Back in 1987, Mathias Rust at the age of 19, shocked the world by flying through the Soviet air defences to land a Cessna aeroplane in Red Square, Moscow, BBC reported.
As per the report, Rust single-handedly flew more than 500 miles (750km) through every Soviet defensive shield in the single-engine plane, which he landed at the gates of the Kremlin.
(With inputs from agencies)
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