Russia's Orion drone quietly strikes Ukrainian forces, overshadowed by Bayraktar

Russia's Orion (Inokhodets) MALE-class combat drones, built by St. Petersburg-based Kronshtadt, entered the war in Ukraine largely unnoticed. Ukrainian sources compare the Orion to Turkey's TB2 Bayraktar due to its similar size and reconnaissance-strike role. Early in the conflict, it was overshadowed by smaller, mass-deployed Russian drones such as the Orlan-10 and Supercam.