A former IT programmer now serving as a Ukrainian soldier says a four-rotor industrial drone which sells over-the-counter for $300 might be modified to hold explosives that may destroy Russian tanks.

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“Our team has done it many times. We have destroyed enemy tanks, heavy military equipment, personnel. It’s a very effective gadget,” the soldier, who makes use of the decision signal Kakrurt, informed Reuters within the central-eastern area of Dnipropetrovsk.

Kakrurt fights for Ukraine’s thirty fifth Marine Brigade, which modifies commercially-available drones and makes use of them to assault Russian forces who’re occupying swathes of Ukraine’s east and south.

The brigade shared two video clips with Reuters exhibiting its drones flying into what they stated had been Russian trenches earlier than detonating.

Drones have been used extensively by each Moscow and Kyiv’s forces since Russia invaded Ukraine in February final 12 months.

Ukraine has stated it’s increasing its drone programme for each reconnaissance and attacking enemy targets as a way to slim the hole between its army capabilities and people of Russia.

The soldier stated that Ukraine had invested vastly in drone know-how.

“It’s better to make effective use of technical resources instead of people. That’s why the Ukrainian Armed Forces are developing very, very quickly in this direction,” he stated.

The thirty fifth Marine Brigade’s troopers confirmed off small industrial drones with 4 rotors that buzzed round as they had been flown by troopers utilizing handsets.

“Our team has decided to use civilian drones, re-make them in order to destroy the enemy. They are easy to get hold of, easy to fit for purpose,” Kakrurt stated.

Another soldier, with the decision signal Reshik, predicted Ukraine would make broad use of drones that fly to their goal earlier than detonating when it begins its much-anticipated counter-offensive within the coming weeks.

“Kamikaze drones will play a huge role in the counteroffensive in attacking trenches where the enemy seeks shelter and in killing the enemy,” he stated.

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The first soldier stated the drones weren’t weak to Russian jamming techniques that use satellites, and that they had been airborne for such a brief time frame earlier than detonating that radio digital interference was additionally ineffective.

“Even for the radio electronic interference there is simply not enough time to start, start working and interfere with the frequencies we work on,” he stated.