TsKBR hands Russian security agencies its radiation-scouting drone design for free

Russia's Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (TsKBR) is giving the country's security agencies the technology to build and use its "Doomsday" drone for radiation reconnaissance free of charge, general designer Dmitry Kuzyakin said, according to TASS. The agencies are receiving finished design documents.

Kuzyakin said the drone was first developed as a separate system, but keeping a separate range of drones proved too costly. The military, police, emergency services and Rosgvardia would all become rescuers in a disaster and already have FPV drones, so the centre is sharing the technology with them, he said.

The drone is meant to find relatively safe zones after a nuclear strike, when radiation in the first hours and days is very high and uneven, so that rescuers can clear rubble and fight fires. Its pilot controls it from inside sealed, protected vehicles.