“Baba Yaga” è in fiamme! Come l’Ucraina ha inventato un nuovo tipo di arma. Vampire, Nemesis e altri droni che possono cambiare la guerra in Ucraina

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> It is evening in Ukraine’s east.
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> The soldiers take the boxes off the truck, one by one, and take out large quadcopters. The size of a drone is impressive: the distance between its four motors is over a metre.
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> Everything looks like a normal mission, but there is one caveat. There is no pilot among the people who unloaded the drone and are now watching it take to the sky. The person who is flying the drone is currently about 500 kilometres away from the take-off point, in Kyiv.
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> At the necessary point, the camera is lowered perpendicular to the ground, and a Russian tank, well camouflaged for the night time, is visible in the drone’s lens. The cameraman presses the button to release the ammunition. A few seconds later, a bright explosion occurs in the location of the tank that looks like a dark spot.
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> At the same time, in the radio intercepts of conversations from the Russian positions, the name of a mythological creature, weird for this context, breaks through a large number of swear words: “Baba Yaga hit the ground!”
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> There is no drone in Ukraine named like that. Russians use this word to describe a whole class of attack UAVs manufactured by different companies; they have different specifications, and carry different ammunition.
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> But all of them have one thing in common: the ability to strike fear into the hearts of Russian soldiers in the middle of the night.
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> Ukrainska Pravda found out what these drones are, how they appeared, what they are used for, and whether they are really capable of rewriting the world’s military strategy textbooks.

I kinda wish they called those UAVs the “night witches”.