Swarms of Russian Drones Attack Ukraine Nightly
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As the more than three-year war turns to the skies, The Post visited a Ukrainian assault unit, which falls under the elite 3rd Assault Brigade, pioneering land and air drones to use in battle.
The Bulava unit is part of Ukraine’s Presidential Brigade, which also performs ceremonial guard duties in Kyiv but mostly became a regular combat brigade after the 2022 invasion. Ignatukha and his men saw the war changing and got into drone technology, using their own salaries to buy equipment and build their skills.
Ukrainian units have been uploading clips of their FPV drone attacks on Pyongyang's rocket launchers, which are designed with their missiles exposed.
The 424th "Svarog" Battalion of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) published a video on July 20 showing Ukrainian drone operators successfully targeting and destroying an experimental "KOP-2" Russian electronic warfare system.
The problem is not [that] Another challenge lies in Russia’s evolving drone deployment strategy. With rising production, Moscow is now simultaneously dispatching large swarms of drones, concentrating them on selected targets rather than chaotically scattering them across the country.
Inside Ukraine's critical drone warfare campaign against Russia. How Ukraine turns drones into fighting machines for its counteroffensive. By Tom Soufi Burridge. October 10, 2022, 5:35 AM.
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A destroyed tank earns 40 points and a dead Russian soldier earns six. Points can be used to purchase upgraded military equipment.
Kyiv is trying to blunt Russia’s grinding advance with a new generation of quadcopters steered by long coils of ultrathin and highly versatile wire.