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Camcopter Under Fire in Ukraine

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has announced that its recently deployed Schiebel Camcopter unmanned air vehicle was the target of anti-aircraft gunfire above Ukraine, although it managed to fly away undamaged.

The UAV has been deployed in a surveillance capacity under the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine for the past couple of weeks, although operations have not been straightforward as it has been the target of both gunfire and GPS jamming.

On 2 November, the rotary-wing UAV was fired at by a vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft gun, which OSCE says was likely a Russian-made ZU-23 – at a location 2.5km north east of Shyrokyne in Ukraine and 17km east of Mariupol.