ZALA BVS helped the Kirov Oblast police to track down lost mushroom hunters

In the Kirov region, police officers used a ZALA T-16 BVS to search for lost mushroom hunters. According to the regional departments of the Ministry of Internal AffairsA man and a woman born in 1946 and 1947 got lost in the Slobodsky district. The pensioners lost their orientation in the forest and got separated.

The woman was able to call the Unified Dispatch Service at 112, after which active search operations began. Police officers and volunteers from Liza Alert searched for the pensioners for more than a day, and as a result, the woman was found.

In order to search for the lost man, specialists from the robotics department of the regional Department of Internal Affairs were involved in the operation. Within three hours, a forest area of over 100 square kilometres was surveyed with the help of the ZALA T-16 UAV. The man was detected at dusk thanks to the onboard thermal imager. The UAV transmitted the exact coordinates of his location, which was followed by a search team on foot. The citizen was found alive and safely evacuated from the forest.

As a reminder, at the end of 2024. modernised ZALA T-16 unmanned aerial systems were supplied to law enforcement units in a number of Russian regions. BVS are designed for aerial reconnaissance of hard-to-reach areas and are capable of staying in the air for more than 4 hours with a communication range of over 75 kilometres. Today they are actively used to control law and order, monitor the traffic situation, and search for people.