For the primary time, Ukrainian first-person-view (FPV) drones utilizing a naval drone as a springboard took out three Russian air protection techniques, Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communication and Info Safety mentioned on Jan. 7.
"Solely every week after Ukrainian sea drones made historical past by efficiently taking down Russian helicopters, one other historic first as our homegrown naval drones at the moment are launching their very own FPV drones, destroying Russia's air protection models," the federal government company mentioned on social media.
On account of the assault on Jan. 6, two Russian anti-missile Pantsir-S1 techniques and one OSA anti-aircraft car had been reportedly broken or destroyed within the occupied a part of Ukraine's southern Kherson Oblast.
The strikes had been carried out by Ukraine's Navy, which launched a video of the assault towards one of many Pantsir techniques. The Kyiv Unbiased couldn’t set up the extent of harm dealt to Russian air defenses.
A Pantsir S-1 has an estimated price ticket of round $15 million. One such system is suspected to be behind the mistaken downing of an Azerbaijani aircraft on Dec. 25, in line with the media.
The assault got here every week after Ukrainian Magura V5 naval drones hit three Russian Mi-8 helicopters, downing two of them over the Black Sea in one other strike that was additionally the primary of its form.
President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree in February ordering the creation of a separate department of the Armed Forces for drones, known as Unmanned Techniques Forces, to command the quickly evolving drone warfare in Russia’s struggle towards Ukraine.
Cheaper to function and extra exact than most artillery techniques, drones shortly grew to become one of many important instruments for Ukraine to fend off Russia’s assaults amid continual artillery ammunition shortages.
The Kyiv IndependentTim Zadorozhnyy