Osica (drone)

The Osica is a Serbian loitering munition and small tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built for precision strikes against light armored vehicles and infrastructure. This fully autonomous system, often called a suicide drone, is designed primarily for attack missions. Its single-use warhead, derived from the M79 Osa hand-held launcher, is a guided ordnance meant to destroy ground targets with a cumulative effect.

A variant, the Osica 2, can be launched from containers and is used by anti-armor units; the BOV 1 vehicle carries this version, which has a range of 25 kilometers. The base Osica weighs 7.5 kilograms, reaches speeds of 120 km/h, flies up to 500 meters in altitude, and has an endurance of 30 minutes with a range of 20 kilometers. Its warhead weighs 2 kilograms and can penetrate 500 millimeters of rolled homogeneous armor. Guidance comes from an electro-optical camera with target tracking, and operation relies on a wireless radio link.

The Military Technical Institute, in cooperation with Utva Aviation Industry, developed the system. It was first shown at the 2023 Partner international arms fair and later demonstrated that same year during the Vihor 2023 exercise at the Pasuljanske Livade military training ground. The Serbian Army operates the Osica.