Joker-10: What's Known About Russia’s Unique Hibernating FPV Drone

"Small, cheap first-person view (FPV) drones have become the bane of troops and vehicles on the battlefields of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, with their presence, along with their larger, more expensive military-grade cousins, rewriting the rules of modern warfare.
The Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions, a Russian drone manufacturer known for the development of the Joker series of multipurpose UAVs, has created a new model known as the Joker-10.

The UAV, said to already be in use by Russian forces on the battlefield, has a reported carrying capacity of up to 5 kg, and a flight speed of about 100 km per hour fully loaded, or 200 km per hour empty.
The drone features unique design solutions allowing it to hibernate while lying in wait for up to a month before being remotely activated.
“Our drone is equipped with two vital features. The first is a hibernator unit which allows operators to turn the drone on and off from a distance. That is, not just turn the motors on and off, but to turn off power to the device completely. Essentially, it’s like remotely pulling the battery out of the drone,” General Director Dmitry Kuzyakin told Sputnik.
“The drone can lay in wait for launch for up to one week in winter, and up to a month in the summer,” Kuzyakin explained, adding that the drone is resistant to rain and snow.
In hibernation mode, the UAV can communicate with operators through passive means. “It’s passive, there are practically no radio emissions, and therefore it is extremely difficult to detect during hibernation,” he said.
The ability to remotely bring the UAV out of hibernation allows crews to place sleeping Joker-10s in frontline areas and leave, without being detected by Ukrainian electronic intelligence gathering units hunting for Russian drone operators. This means by the time the drones are turned on, operators are nowhere in sight for the other side to pick up on any radio emissions.
If necessary, the drone can also be flown to its waiting area and switch off remotely." Sputnik