{"id":510583,"date":"2026-01-18T23:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=510583"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:42:50","slug":"idrw-claims-india-purchased-a-batch-of-berkut-bm-drones-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/idrw-claims-india-purchased-a-batch-of-berkut-bm-drones-from-belarus","title":{"rendered":"IDRW Claims India Purchased a Batch of Berkut-BM Drones From Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The para-military outlet Indian Defence Research Wing (IDRW) reported that India has purchased a batch of Belarusian Berkut-BM unmanned aerial vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe Indian Army has procured the Belarusian Berkut-BM unmanned aerial vehicle from Mirotvorets (Peacemaker),\u201d<\/i> the report said.<\/p>\n<p>No further details of the purchase were provided, and the source of the information was not specified.<\/p>\n<p>The article then goes on to describe the drone and its technical characteristics. It claims the system was developed as a high-speed strike drone optimized for the destruction of surface-to-air missile systems, multiple launch rocket systems, artillery positions, reconnaissance assets and electronic warfare systems, as well as columns of lightly armored and motorized equipment and enemy personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The Berkut-BM drone was developed by the Belarusian company <b>INDELA<\/b> Design Bureau. Its website states that the Berkut-BM is allegedly a robotic aerial target with a 2.8-meter wingspan, a mass of 33 kg, a turbojet engine, a parachute recovery system, and a top speed of 450 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, INDELA Design Bureau underwent reorganization and became the Design Bureau \u201cUnmanned Helicopters,\u201d operating under the <strong>UAVHELI<\/strong> brand.<\/p>\n<p>Mirotvorets is a kamikaze unmanned aircraft with a turbojet engine, a 2.8-meter wingspan, a range of 180 km, and a 10-kg warhead. Prototype units were produced in 2021. It is currently in serial production.<\/p>\n<p>It is known that the Belarusian drone is equipped with compact micro turbojet engines manufactured by the Chinese company Swiwin.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Reform.news reported that militants from the M23 group seized a batch of military equipment at Goma airport, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, including <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/bespilotniki-iz-belarusi-zahvatili-povstancy-v-demokraticheskoj-respublike-kongo\">new Berkut-BM UAVs packed in wooden crates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The para-military outlet Indian Defence Research Wing (IDRW) reported that India has purchased a batch of Belarusian Berkut-BM unmanned aerial vehicles. \u201cThe Indian Army has procured the Belarusian Berkut-BM unmanned aerial vehicle from Mirotvorets (Peacemaker),\u201d the report said. No further details of the purchase were provided, and the source of the information was not specified. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696dee8e9add0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"IDRW Claims India Purchased a Batch of Berkut-BM Drones From Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}