What the Geran-5 is made of
28 documented parts and 38 photos, from recovered wreckage. Each part gives its marking, maker and country where known, and links the record it comes from. The system itself: Geran-5.
Where the parts were made
- United States of America 9
- Texas Instruments, CTS Corporation, Monolithic Power Systems
- People's Republic of China 4
- Telefly Telecommunications Equipment Co., Limited, Xingkay Tech, Yantel Corporation, Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (WinChipHead, WCH)
- Russian Federation 1
- VNIIR-PROGRESS JSC
- Germany 1
- Infineon Technologies
Sources
- HUR War & Sanctions: Geran-5 UAV · українською
- Open Source Munitions Portal — munition identification records for this system
- Telegram, news and web reporting — found by research-parts.sh scan
Ukrainian pages read alongside the English: same items, markings and text.
Specifications (HUR)
- Length
- 6,5 m
- Take-off weight, max.
- 850 kg
- Weight of the warhead
- 90 kg
- Wingspan
- 3,2 m
Geran-5 UAV
Jammer-proof satellite navigation system "Kometa-M12"
Завадозахищена супутникова навігаційна система "Комета-М12"
Russia’s anti-jam satellite navigation receiver, made by VNIIR-Progress in Cheboksary. Its antenna is a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA): twelve antenna elements on one board, whose signals the receiver combines so that it can turn its blind spots towards a jammer and keep the satellites. The same Kometa family turns up in Geran-2 drones, UMPK glide bombs and, as the Kometa R8, in the Iskander-M. Ukraine has struck VNIIR-Progress itself.
Borscht (Tracker V3) Tracker with 3G/LTE modems and a Raspberry Pi microcomputer
Трекер Борщ (Tracker V3) з 3G/LTE модемами та мікрокомп'ютером Raspberry Pi
A telemetry tracker that reports where the drone is over mobile networks. HUR’s name for it is “Borscht”. The photo shows what it is built from: a Raspberry Pi single-board computer, two USB 3G/LTE modems with their covers off and SIM slots visible, and a hand-wired interface board with an RF connector and an XT30 power plug. Earlier Gerans carried similar trackers with Ukrainian and Russian SIM cards; this one uses the external 3G/LTE antennas listed below. See also how a mesh relay is claimed to steer it.
Raspberry Pi board (top), two USB LTE modems with SIM slots, hand-wired interface board with RF connector
The tracker's parts as first released, with the antenna cable
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Photos: HUR War & Sanctions · HUR (Defence Intelligence of Ukraine)
Flight Controller Unit (FCU)
Польотний контролер (FCU)
Г5
The flight computer, in a cast aluminium box with cooling slots. HUR documents one board inside it, the satellite navigation receiver board, listed below with its chips: a Texas Instruments TMS320F28335 real-time processor, a CAN bus transceiver that links it to the other units, a USB-to-serial bridge, an RF power divider and the clock that sets its timing. The part-number and serial-number stickers on the underside were scraped off before the drone was built into the airframe.
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Photo: HUR War & Sanctions
- Satellite navigation system receiver board
- OLIPUN
90001-15321C00A
Connector
A board connector by OLIPUN, maker not identified by HUR.record ↗
- VP230
TI58M
A1V4
CAN transceiver
A Texas Instruments CAN bus transceiver (SN65HVD230 family): it connects the flight computer to the other units over the CAN bus, the standard wiring in cars and drones.record ↗
- 42Z211JG3
HCT04
6-channel inverter
A Texas Instruments 74HCT04 hex inverter, a basic logic chip.record ↗
- PS767D301
46T
ATVP
Voltage regulator
A Texas Instruments dual low-dropout voltage regulator (TPS767D301 family) supplying clean power to the processor.record ↗
- CTS39CB3
50M000000
2538 3I3
Clock generator
A 50 MHz clock oscillator from CTS Corporation. Its date code 2538 means week 38 of 2025: made in September 2025, about four months before HUR documented the first Geran-5 wreckage in January 2026, so American chips were still reaching the production line that recently.record ↗
- DSP
TMS320
F28335PGFA
G4 A 53ADD7W
G4
Digital signal processor
The flight computer’s processor: a Texas Instruments TMS320F28335, a 150 MHz C2000 real-time controller with a floating-point unit, widely used in motor drives and industrial control.record ↗
- PD150
0U03
Power divider/combiner
A Yantel RF power divider: it splits one antenna signal between two receivers, or combines two into one.record ↗
- WCH
CH343G
212935F12
USB to UART Bridge Controller
A USB-to-serial bridge chip from WCH (Nanjing Qinheng), a cheap Chinese part common in hobby electronics; it gives the board a USB port, used for loading software and settings.record ↗
- MPST17
M38222
188486
M
Synchronous step-down converter
A step-down voltage converter from Monolithic Power Systems, turning the supply voltage into the lower voltages the chips run on.record ↗
Power distribution unit (PDU)
Блок розподілу потужності (PDU)
Distributes battery power to the drone’s systems. The finned aluminium case took a shrapnel hit; opened up, it holds a board built around a second TMS320F28335 processor, power inductors and capacitors, and a harness of white wires to two round military-style connectors on the end panel. Its clock carries a 2024 date code.
- LM258
93M
DN25HF
Operational amplifier
A Texas Instruments LM258 dual operational amplifier, most likely measuring current or voltage on the power board.record ↗
- 014N06NS
HAA519
Transistor
An Infineon OptiMOS power transistor (014N06NS: 60 V, about 1.4 mΩ), switching battery current to the drone’s systems. The only German part HUR found.record ↗
- CTS39CB3
50M000000
2406 3I3
Clock generator
A 50 MHz CTS clock oscillator with date code 2406: week 6 of 2024. (HUR’s text says “February (43rd week)”; February is right, the week number is a slip.)record ↗
- TMS320
F28335PGFA
G4A-47A7TYW
G4
Digital signal processor
The power unit’s processor: a second Texas Instruments TMS320F28335, from a different production lot than the flight computer’s.record ↗
On-board power supply based on Li-ion 18650 batteries
Бортове джерело живлення на основі Li-ion акумуляторів 18650
The on-board battery: a pack built from cylindrical Li-ion cells of the common 18650 size, the same cells used in laptop batteries and power tools. HUR’s photo shows dozens of loose cells scattered over snow at the crash site.
Photo: HUR War & Sanctions
Warhead BCh-90
Бойова частина БЧ-90
The 90 kg warhead. HUR’s photos show the crushed casing in the wreckage, a round steel plate with a central hole, and a handful of pre-formed steel balls: the fragments the explosive is meant to throw.
Warhead casing in the wreckage
Round steel plate with a central hole, from the warhead
Pre-formed steel balls: the warhead's fragments
Steel balls from the warhead on snow at the crash site
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Photos: HUR War & Sanctions · HUR (Defence Intelligence of Ukraine)
3G/LTE antennas
3G/LTE антени
Flat 3G/LTE antennas laminated into the carbon-fibre skin, feeding the Borscht tracker’s mobile modems. Built into the skin, they add no drag and are hard to spot from outside.
Photo: HUR War & Sanctions
Launch engine
Стартовий двигун
A separate engine that gets the drone off the launch rail, listed by HUR without a type. Launch footage shown by Russia in May 2026 has the drone leaving a fixed rail of about 80 m. No photo has been published.
Inertial navigation system MINSOO V3
інерціальна навігаційна система MINSOO V3
The inertial navigation system: accelerometers and gyroscopes that measure every movement, so the drone knows where it is when the satellite signal is jammed. HUR calls it “probably of the SADRA MINSO type”. The board sits in a cast housing, badly fouled by the crash; a large processor and a metal-can sensor module are visible.
probably, type SADRA MINSO
Photo: HUR War & Sanctions
Air pressure measurement unit (ADU)
Блок вимірювання повітряного тиску (ADU)
The air data unit, which measures air pressure to give airspeed and altitude. Two brass pressure ports on the box are connected by clear silicone tubes to sensors on the board inside.
Photo: HUR War & Sanctions
Launch bar AV. Panel
Панель запуску AV. Panel
The launch interface: the panel through which the launcher connects to the drone before it leaves the rail, with switches, round connectors and an indicator light. HUR lists it together with the launch bar.
Launch interface panel with switches, connectors and indicator light, still in the airframe
The launch interface panel in the torn airframe
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Photos: HUR War & Sanctions · HUR (Defence Intelligence of Ukraine)
Turbojet engine TELEFLY TF-TJ2000A
Турбореактивний двигун TELEFLY TF-TJ2000A
0000000060
The main engine: a small Chinese turbojet giving about 200 kgf (1,960 N) of thrust, made by Telefly Telecommunications Equipment. The photo shows the intake on the left, the combustion section and the nozzle on the right, with the mounting rails underneath; HUR records serial number 0000000060. The Kyiv Independent put the engine at about $40,000 of the drone’s estimated $115,000 cost. The first Geran-5s carried it in a pod above the fuselage; later ones reportedly have it inside.
Telefly TF-TJ2000A turbojet: intake left, nozzle right
The turbojet in the wreckage, as first photographed
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Photos: HUR War & Sanctions · HUR (Defence Intelligence of Ukraine)
Servo drive
Сервопривід
An electric actuator that moves a control surface, in a finned aluminium housing. HUR could not identify the maker.
Photo: HUR War & Sanctions
Modem Mesh Network XK-F358
Модем Mesh Network XK-F358
A Chinese mesh radio made by Shenzhen Xingkai Technology (Xingkay Tech): every drone carrying one can pass data and video on to the next, so an operator can reach a drone far beyond direct radio range. The vendor lists 2×10 W output, 1.25–20 MHz channels, multi-hop links and AES encryption; the frequency band used on Gerans has not been published. The front panel shows the antenna connectors, LINK and RSSI lights, a data connector, warnings not to power it without antennas, and a handwritten marking. HUR puts its price at about $8,100. This is the part at the centre of how a mesh relay is claimed to steer it.
Front panel: antenna connectors, LINK and RSSI lights, data connector, handwritten marking
Cracked cover plate of the modem
The XK-F358 from the Geran-5 next to the same modem from a Gerbera
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Photos: HUR War & Sanctions · HUR via Militarnyi
From other sources
Onboard camera for strike video recording
Ukrainian Victory Drones channel says Geran-5s carry an onboard camera that films target destruction, enabling real-time battle-damage assessment and correction of follow-on waves.
Also reported
- Airframe — Carbon-fibre fuselage skin, wings and tail; load-bearing structure of aluminium profiles and steel; tubular fuselage, straight mid wing, tail with end finlets source
- Optical navigation (K5, reported) — "Susanin" electro-optical terrain-correlation (OEKS/DSMAC-class) correction, compares camera imagery with stored reference images; reported on Geran-5 K5 - not in HUR's Geran-5 component list source
Part records and photos: HUR War & Sanctions, Ukraine's Defence Intelligence database of foreign components found in Russian weapons, and the other sources named on each part. A marking, date code or country is given as the source records it.