Manufacturer catalog

Special Technology Centre

Special Technology Centre is a St. Petersburg-based Russian defense-technology company tied to unmanned aircraft, radio-frequency equipment, electronic-warfare systems, and radio-technical reconnaissance products. In this catalog it is the builder of the Orlan-10 UAV, with sanctions and defense-analysis sources also identifying the company as STC LLC and as a supplier of Orlan-family systems.

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Special Technology Centre appears in the catalog through the Orlan-10, a Russian tactical UAV family member used for reconnaissance, target acquisition, electronic-warfare payloads, and data relay. RUSI identifies STC LLC as the St. Petersburg-based, military-affiliated manufacturer behind the Orlan-10, while Ukraine's War & Sanctions portal lists the company as a developer and manufacturer of Orlan UAVs, Leer-3 systems, and Filin-I UAV detectors.

The company is difficult to source through normal corporate channels because public references are dominated by sanctions records, defense investigations, and archived official pages. Those sources consistently connect STC to Russian UAV and radio-frequency product lines, but conflict-use details are kept on weapon entries rather than this builder profile.

Unmanned aircraft systemsElectronic warfareRadio monitoringRadio-technical reconnaissanceUAV detection

Notable Systems

Orlan-10, Medium-range reconnaissance and electronic-warfare UAV, Aircraft & UAVs

Orlan-10

Medium-range reconnaissance and electronic-warfare UAV

Cataloged STC-built medium-range UAV used for reconnaissance, targeting support, electronic-warfare payloads, and data relay.

Sources: The Orlan Complex: Tracking the Supply Chains of Russia's Most Successful UAV, Limited Liability Company Special Technological Centre

Orlan UAV family

War & Sanctions lists Orlan-10, Orlan-30, and Orlan-50 among STC LLC's UAV products.

Sources: Limited Liability Company Special Technological Centre
Leer-3 electronic warfare system, Drone-based electronic-warfare and signals-intelligence system, Electronic Warfare

Leer-3

Drone-based electronic-warfare and signals-intelligence system

Electronic-warfare and radio-technical reconnaissance system listed among STC LLC products.

Sources: Limited Liability Company Special Technological Centre

Filin-I

UAV detector listed among STC LLC products.

Sources: Limited Liability Company Special Technological Centre

Manufacturer History

  1. Company foundation

    Lookout describes STC as a privately owned company founded in 2000 and based in St. Petersburg.

    Sources: Monokle: The Mobile Surveillance Tooling of the Special Technology Center

  2. U.S. sanctions designation

    RUSI and Lookout describe STC as first sanctioned by the U.S. government in December 2016; OFAC's current record lists Special Technology Center on the SDN list.

    Sources: The Orlan Complex: Tracking the Supply Chains of Russia's Most Successful UAV, Monokle: The Mobile Surveillance Tooling of the Special Technology Center, Sanctions List Search: Special Technology Center

  3. Orlan supply-chain investigation

    RUSI's investigation identified STC LLC as the St. Petersburg-based military-affiliated manufacturer of the Orlan-10 and examined component supply chains connected to Orlan production.

    Sources: The Orlan Complex: Tracking the Supply Chains of Russia's Most Successful UAV

Website links
Official websiteRUSI Orlan supply-chain reportOFAC sanctions recordWar & Sanctions company profile

Public sourcing for Special Technology Centre is dominated by sanctions records and defense or security investigations. This profile uses those sources only for builder identity, product-family, legal-name, website, and sanctions-context claims; specific conflict-use claims remain in weapon entries.

Manufacturer Sources

  • The Orlan Complex: Tracking the Supply Chains of Russia's Most Successful UAVPublisher: Royal United Services Institute | Note: Identifies STC LLC as the St. Petersburg-based military-affiliated manufacturer of the Orlan-10 UAV and provides background on Orlan production and supply chains. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Limited Liability Company Special Technological CentrePublisher: Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine | Note: Lists the legal name, STC LLC abbreviation, Russian registration data, St. Petersburg address, sanctions jurisdictions, and products including Orlan UAVs, Leer-3, and Filin-I. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Sanctions List Search: Special Technology CenterPublisher: U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control | Note: Lists Special Technology Center as an SDN entity with tax ID, website stc-spb.ru, STC Ltd. alias, and St. Petersburg addresses. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Monokle: The Mobile Surveillance Tooling of the Special Technology CenterPublisher: Lookout | Note: Provides background on STC as a privately owned St. Petersburg company founded in 2000, known for UAV and radio-frequency equipment supplied to Russian government customers. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • File:Orlan-10 (2).jpgPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Image provenance source for a CC BY 4.0 Mil.ru photograph of an Orlan-10; the image relates to this builder because Orlan-10 is the STC-built system attached to this catalog. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

Category

Aircraft & UAVs

Crewed aircraft, drones, and loitering munitions.

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Orlan-10, Medium-range reconnaissance and electronic-warfare UAV, Aircraft & UAVs2014 Russia-Ukraine War, 2011 Syrian Civil War +1 moreOrlan-10Medium-range reconnaissance and electronic-warfare UAVBuilt in: RussiaThe Orlan-10 is a Russian medium-range unmanned aircraft built by Special Technology Centre for reconnaissance, artillery spotting, electronic warfare, and data-relay missions. It became one of Russia's most important tactical UAVs in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War, while separate sources document Russian use in Syria and a recovered Orlan-type UAV tied to the LNA side in Libya.
Orlan-30, Reconnaissance and laser target-designation UAV, Aircraft & UAVs2014 Russia-Ukraine WarOrlan-30Reconnaissance and laser target-designation UAVBuilt in: RussiaThe Orlan-30 is a Russian Orlan-family unmanned aircraft built around reconnaissance, electro-optical surveillance, and laser target designation for precision weapons. Official export material describes an eight-hour UAV system with a laser rangefinder-designator, while U.S. Army operational analysis identifies its Ukraine role in Russian sensor-to-shooter workflows for Krasnopol artillery rounds and Kh-38ML missile strikes.

Category

Electronic Warfare

Systems built to sense, relay, jam, deceive, or attack electromagnetic networks.

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Leer-3 electronic warfare system, Drone-based electronic-warfare and signals-intelligence system, Electronic Warfare2014 Russia-Ukraine WarLeer-3 electronic warfare systemDrone-based electronic-warfare and signals-intelligence systemBuilt in: RussiaThe Leer-3 is a Russian drone-based electronic-warfare system that pairs a KamAZ-5350 command post with Orlan-10 unmanned aircraft carrying cellular-network jamming and deception payloads. Public sources describe it as a GSM-focused electronic-attack and signals-intelligence complex used by Russian forces in Ukraine to disrupt, locate, and exploit mobile communications.