Armed Russian Drone Found Near Polish Beach: Officials
Prosecutors said the drone carried a live warhead that was neutralized on the beach before investigators moved the airframe for analysis.
- Polish officials confirmed Wednesday that a Russian Gerbera-2 drone carrying a live warhead was recovered from a beach near Rusinowo, with military prosecutors neutralizing the explosive device on site.
- Built from plywood and foam, the cheap aircraft is typically fielded by Russia as a decoy or reconnaissance platform, though investigators believe it was lost during test maneuvers over the Baltic Sea.
- "It contained a fragmentation-high-explosive warhead together with a fuze," military affairs prosecutor Bartosz Okoniewski stated to PAP. His team detonated the warhead on September 15 after safely separating it from the aircraft.
- Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz linked the recovery to a Russian drone downed over Lithuania on September 15, and Poland and Lithuania plan a joint investigation into the flight from the Kaliningrad region.
- This recovery follows a series of recent drone incidents across the Baltic region, as Poland, a NATO member, has faced repeated unauthorized incursions since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.
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An aircraft found earlier this week on a beach in Poland is a Russian Gerbera-2 drone, announces the Polish prosecutor's office on Wednesday, reports AFP.
The Poznan Regional Park, in central Poland, confirmed Wednesday that the Russian military drone discovered Monday in the coastal area of Rusinowo town in the north of the country contained an explosive warhead with fragmentation and was prepared to...
Gerbera 2 found off the northwestern coast of Poland - Authorities have not yet verified its mission
Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on Monday that the armed forces had located the drone near the village of Rusinowo, in north-western Poland, and had recovered it at sea.
Russian Drone Found on Polish Beach Carried Live Explosive Warhead, Prosecutors Confirm
Polish military prosecutors told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) on September 16 that an armed Russian drone recovered from a beach at Rusinowo carried a live warhead, neutralized on site, and preliminarily identified as a Gerbera 2.
An explosive device was found on a suspected Russian-made military drone off the coast of the Baltic Sea in Poland earlier this week, the prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
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