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It landed in an area of Zagreb called Jarun. There’s also a place in Ukraine called Yarun. I think someone entered Jarun on Google Maps, selected the wrong place and entered the coordinates without looking. More worrying is that no detection system has seen it.
It landed in an area of Zagreb called Jarun. There’s also a place in Ukraine called Yarun. I think someone entered Jarun on Google Maps, selected the wrong place and entered the coordinates without looking. More worrying is that no detection system has seen it.
Being it a reconnaissance drone, why did it crashed in Jarun? I could expect this behaviour from a loitering munition, but a reconnaissance drone should come back to its airbase after completing its activity.
It landed in an area of Zagreb called Jarun. There’s also a place in Ukraine called Yarun. I think someone entered Jarun on Google Maps, selected the wrong place and entered the coordinates without looking. More worrying is that no detection system has seen it.
Even more confusingly, they're both written "Ярун"—making this the most likely scenario in my eyes.
I don't trust either Ukraine nor Russia in this matter. I can see Ukraine using it for surveillance and the drone going haywire. I also can see Russia using it as SAM bait but the drone flying off all up to Croatia. I am confused how it managed to go through two NATO countries skies for over 600 KM in a state of heightened alert.
> I can see Ukraine using it for surveillance and the drone going haywire. I can imagine that 1980's equipment is trivial to jam these days for most armed forces.
It landed in an area of Zagreb called Jarun. There’s also a place in Ukraine called Yarun. I think someone entered Jarun on Google Maps, selected the wrong place and entered the coordinates without looking. More worrying is that no detection system has seen it.
It landed in an area of Zagreb called Jarun. There’s also a place in Ukraine called Yarun. I think someone entered Jarun on Google Maps, selected the wrong place and entered the coordinates without looking. More worrying is that no detection system has seen it.
That doesn’t really make sense. It wouldn’t necessarily or even likely have crashed at its destination as it should have returned to base once it reached those coordinates and completed its mission. And even if it were programmed to loiter until it was out of fuel (which… why?), the drones are supposed to land with a parachute so it wouldn’t have just crashed and exploded. The name coincidence is only interesting if…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Tu-141 has a range of about 1000km, so presumably 2000km one way. 1000km I've seen around refers to range of flight, not mission range, so no need to double it. edit: Removed some speculation.
Then that would point toward a Ukrainan likely making the Ярун mistake. I suppose they'd be even more prone to not checking the country and assuming it's the one nearby/in their country.
Suddenly war is not that far away