Across Sweden, speed cameras are disappearing at an alarming rate. More than 160 cameras were stolen from country roads, according to the New York Times, and most of the robberies occurred between midnight and 3 a. m. m. The government is aware. After all, who, apart from some kind of professional slider watchman, would need to go through all this effort to borrow anything that has virtually no resale value?
Ultimately, it is conceivable that the stolen cameras will locate a moment of life inside the Russian surveillance drones used in Ukraine. Local reports recommend that the Swedish security service be aware of reports potentially linking radar flights to the ongoing standoff between Russia and Ukraine, although the Swedish government has been careful to avoid making definitive statements about it so far.
On August 27, 11 cameras disappeared overnight on a stretch of road in Sweden County. Three days later, on August 30, another 30 were stolen. of August. According to police, unlike previous cases of vandalism, where a distraught motorist simply destroys the camera by throwing it or breaking the lens, in those cases, thieves break into the closet that houses the internal parts of the device: a radar a sensor to measure speed, a flash to remove the darkness of a speeding subject, a symbol processing apparatus and, the maximum vital component for thieves, a DSLR camera. Once the closet is opened, the suspects flee with the camera alone and leave behind a broken unit that costs the Swedish Transport Administration about $22,200 per piece to repair.
According to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, those same cameras are custom-designed Russian drones that are used in surveillance and attacks on Ukraine. with an 85mm lens. The camera frame is fixed on a steel plate with a series of wires attached, with the lens protruding through the skin of the drone.
However, Eva Lundberg, who coordinates the formula for traffic cameras at the Swedish Transport Administration, told The Times that the stolen cameras are traditional Nikon DSLR cameras. This confirms other local media reports, but complicates the theory that the cameras are reused on Russian drones.
Lundberg says Nikon cameras are aimed at an express distance and are “impossible to adjust,” according to the traffic camera supplier. So far, videos showing recovered Orlan-10 drones have featured Canon DSLR cameras, the concentrated mechanisms are set the same way: the concentrate mode is set to manual and constant with epoxy, and the concentrate ring is set to infinity, meaning it would provide a concentrate profile similar to that of DSLRs recovered from Swedish radars.
Whether or not the stolen radars are used for Russian drones is still pending. If cameras were pointed at Russia for use in their drones, where can they go too?It is possible that the police will soon know this data, as a user: Swedish citizen: You have been arrested in connection with Friday night’s robberies.
However, if the theory of reusing those DSLRs in Russian drones is accurate, it would possibly imply that the Russian military can also resort to any device it can get its hands on. Canon officially stopped promoting and delivering its products to Russia in March 2022 as a reaction to the Ukrainian conflict. Building new drones with prefabricated parts is likely to be more complicated for Russia, as sanctions continue to wreak havoc, especially given its significant rate of loss of around 50 sets between February and May.
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