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Tekever AR3 StormShroud UAV shot down and recovered by Russian forces

S4 · 08/03
2026 · Tekever · Russia-Ukraine border

Record

CompanyTekever
Categorydefense space
Typemission-loss
Date08/03
2026
Time of daynot documented
LocationRussia-Ukraine border · Bryansk Oblast
SeverityS4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale1 UAV (AR3 StormShroud)
Confidencelow
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceEuronews

What happened

A Tekever AR3 StormShroud reconnaissance UAV, operated by Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, was shot down by a Russian anti-drone unit near Bryansk Oblast and recovered intact for study, marking the aircraft's combat loss. Lower confidence as this is a shootdown rather than a product malfunction, similar in kind to the already-known Baykar Akıncı shootdown.

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