Driving through the fields, three Ukrainian soldiers pressed in a quad are prosecuted by a drone, that the man on the back tries to break down with a hunting rifle: the most effective weapon in this case.
When the flying machine falls under Chevrotine’s blows, whose dispersion makes it possible to achieve small objectives, all soldiers are exulted, because touching a 15 cm long drone when driving at 100 km/h is a feat.
That day, it is a training, which AFP helps, near the front in the eastern region of Donetsk, in the heart of the struggle since the Russian on a large -scale invasion was launched in 2022.
The shooter would have liked to descend his fastest goal, because with the increase in Russian drones, “you have no right to error, you cannot relax,” he said, cigarette in the peak.
For two months, according to several soldiers, Russia has multiplied its number of drones to massively harass Ukrainian logistics, pushing Kyiv to constantly adapt.
According to the data reported by the Air Forces of Ukraine, cited by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Russia has launched more than 19,000 missiles between September 2022 and the end of December 2024, including a large majority of Iranian and Iranian drones produced under license in Russia.
“Russian technological advantage
In Ukraine, experts deplore Russian progress in this area, the first, it seems, from the beginning of the invasion. Moscow manufactures drones enormously with “monumental scientific projects” led by “Russian, Iranian and Chinese engineers”, Maria Berlinska, head of the Air Recognition Center, in a column, are concerned.
The commander -in the main of the Ukrainian armies, Oleksandre Syrsky, recognized on Saturday that Moscow had certain “advantages” in the war for drones, in particular “in number and rank” of fiber optic drones whose systems are difficult to blur.
The development of drones has changed the construction of fortifications, now glued to wooded bands for less visibility and more compact. “Today, a drone, especially fiber optics, can enter any crack,” added Oleksandre Salsky.
With their agility and speed, the quad allows the injured to be evacuated by avoiding drones, unlike heavy armored vehicles. The motorcycle is used to attack or raise troops.
“We are going to end by bicycle,” said the soldier, pulling his cigarette.
The roads near the front are now crossed by motorcycles coated with antennas, buggies in oxidized sheets or armored vehicles hidden under meters of networks, which gives the table the Max crazy air films.
In the vicinity of the city of Kramorsk, a Ukrainian logistics center of the eastern front, rows of stakes are erected along the roads to place networks that are supposed to preserve the drone strike vehicles, even more than 20 km from the front.
New “Philosophy”
According to Ievguène, a press officer of the 28th separate mechanized brigade, in front of this military revolution, the era of military vehicles is “rebel.”
But Ukraine, which was in advance during the first years of the invasion, now is left behind in drone production, carried out according to heterogeneous manufacturers experts.
According to Maria Berlinska, Kyiv tries to keep up with “cheap and simple technologies.” But the “amateur DIY” is not enough in the face of a Russian production that is industrialized.
“Take well”
With his buggy made of united sheets, Akademic, of his war name, is a follower of the ingenious. His geeks team settled in the fighting fights against drones, made in wineries, not far from the front.
According to him, the two enemies observe the way of working with the other, improving the techniques, trying to take advantage of.
Illustration of this rivalry, Russia announced in June the creation of “unmanned” armed forces, a year after a similar kyiv decision.
The 27 -year -old Boroda Soldier team transformed a heavy agricultural drone into a load load load, which provides food and medications to infantry soldiers, blocked in trenches for several weeks, the superiority of Russian air prevents its rotation.
Moscow has “a greater number of new, more modern drones”, but not as far “as ours, to deliver greater amounts of products,” says Boroda.
He always believes in victory: “Our goal is more noble, is to defend us, motivate us. His is only destroying and killing.”
Source: BFM TV
