Ukraine’s 700,000 Suicide UAVs Send Russia Scurrying For Jammers As FVP Drones Emerge As New Artillery

Published on January 8, 2024

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The destruction of Ukraine’s artillery inventory, the shortage of ammunition in the US and Europe after having donated Kyiv from their armories, and the inability to ramp up production owing to issues with their defense industrial bases have led to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) nearly substituting the deficit with kamikaze drones.

First-person view (FPV) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are the new artillery for Ukraine. Ukraine will double its deployment after repurposing such civilian aircraft for battlefield applications. The country pioneered the practice of tweaking commercial drones and quadcopters with explosives to be flown into Russian ground targets. 

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