{"id":1205,"date":"2026-01-24T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/ethiopia-buys-russian-orion-e-reconnaissance-and-strike-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:38:19","slug":"ethiopia-buys-russian-orion-e-reconnaissance-and-strike-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/ethiopia-buys-russian-orion-e-reconnaissance-and-strike-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia buys Russian Orion-E reconnaissance and strike drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"2560\" height=\"1576\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-scaled.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-800x492.jpg 800w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-1600x985.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-2048x1260.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-682x420.jpg 682w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-696x428.jpg 696w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-1068x657.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-1920x1182.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/orion-356x220.jpg 356w\">Ethiopia has confirmed the acquisition of Russian-made Orion-E reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles, marking the first verified export of the Orion drone system, according to aircraft displayed at Aviation Expo 2026. A Russian Orion-E unmanned aerial vehicle was shown in the Ethiopian Air Force exhibition area during the event, confirming that Addis Ababa has [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has confirmed the acquisition of Russian-made Orion-E reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicles, marking the first verified export of the Orion drone system, according to aircraft di<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heldplants.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}