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Ukraine’s drone war is evolving faster than anywhere else on Earth. The Ukrainian SOKIL UAV may represent the birth of a new class of cheap reconnaissance drones.
In this video: SOKIL, FPV interceptor drones, and how Ukraine is rewriting the rules of the sky.
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Sych a long-range, reusable fixed-wing bomber drone.
Payload: 4 kg (~8.8 lbs)
Strike Range: 100 km (~62 miles)
Unlike self-destroying FPVs, Sych acts like a mini tactical bomber. It drops munitions via an onboard ballistic computer and flies back.
In the sky - “SYCH.” On the ground — targets that need to be found and hit.
See it -engage it.
Find it - see it through to the end.
This isn’t a movie. It’s just another day for the “Exorcists” crew.
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Mykhailo Drapatyi (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine), Andriy Biletskyi (Commander of the 3rd Army Corps), and Denys "Redis" Prokopenko (Commander of the 1st National Guard Corps "Azov").
1/ Looks like this is the Ukrainian "Sichen" drone filmed by Turkish sailors in the Black Sea.
Recently the CEO of the manufacturer said the older version has a range of 1,500 km (~932 miles).
The new version reaches 3,000 km (~1,864 miles).⬇️
1/ @FirePointUA Chief Designer Denys Shtilierman shared cool morning photos: extra structures visible on the FP-1 drone wings — possibly additional fuel tanks for even longer range. Also features a ballistic missile launch. Ukrainian strike tech keeps evolving fast! ⬇️
A very close-up view of an FP-1 drone striking a Wildberries logistics warehouse in St. Petersburg. At the end, a Russian can be heard saying: "Blyat! There are gas cylinders here." *(hissing sound)
@FirePointUA @DenShtilierman @iraterekh
Today's video shows a Russian Su-35 trying to shoot down a Ukrainian FP-1 drone and failing. The Su-35 has to stay above about 350 km/h (217 mph), while the FP-1 cruises at around 140 km/h (87 mph).
That speed difference makes slow drones difficult targets for fighter jets.
I love Italian opera and when Moscow is burning. What could be better? It's beautiful. 😂
@FirePointUA @DenShtilierman @iraterekh
1/ A telling video of a Ukrainian Hornet drone eliminating a Russian mobile fire team tasked with hunting down these drones and protecting military trucks. It also highlights how dangerous video-guided drones are for the very teams deployed to stop them.
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🎵The Rascals – It's a Beautiful Morning.
Strikes on the Moscow region are becoming routine—and they're still carried out with drones alone.
@FirePointUA, feel free to use this video if you like it.😀
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1/ @FirePointUA chief designer, @DenShtilierman, has shared a video. It appears to show the first test of the FP-9 ballistic missile.
Range: 855 km (531 mi) with an 800 kg (1,764 lb) warhead. These missiles are meant for Moscow—and they'll change everything.
1/ Small, cheap kamikaze UGVs have proven highly effective. As the gray zone continues to expand, they no longer have the range to cross it and reach enemy positions. The obvious solution is to transport them by air and deploy them much closer to the battlefield.
Russia's Amazon equivalent was hit near Moscow. Massive warehouses have been destroyed. Earlier this month, the company classified drone attacks as force majeure and no longer compensates sellers for goods lost in such attacks. The financial losses are expected to be enormous.
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Wow! What a hit! At 0:49, @413_raid pilot puts one straight into the engine room at the waterline. Seawater likely flooded the machinery space, causing catastrophic damage. Bravo!
@usf_army should have a special award for pilots who make exceptionally precise hits like this.
Magyar’s poetry update: the shadow fleet is wasting away – and it should disappear as a species.
+11⚓️🔥 on the night of July 14. In just 9 days, USF Birds have hunted down 116 vessels in the Sea of Azov as part of Operation "MoLoCHKa": 5 oil tankers, 5 dry cargo vessels, and 1 tugboat.
The shadow fleet is wasting away – and it should disappear as a species.
A lot of people don't fully understand what's happening around this naval battle. Where did all these tankers come from? What's their mission? And why are the USF Birds hammering them without sinking them, instead turning them into ghost ships drifting at sea? I'll find the time and record a video explaining it all.
For now, here's the short version: PARALYZING russia's feeder fleet – the small and medium 140-meter flat-bottomed "courier" tankers with a deadweight of around 7,000 tons – effectively cripples a major component of russia's shadow fleet. It prevents the export of its "black gold" from river-port oil transshipment bases and loading terminals through the Volga–Don Canal and the Sea of Azov to large tankers. Those larger tankers can't reach the oil terminals or ports because of their draft, so they're forced to load offshore in the Black Sea from these courier tankers, each of them taking on cargo delivered by 12–15 of these little water shuttles.
Burning these worm-camels of the sea – along with the tugboats that keep dragging them around after they've been hit – also limits deliveries of scarce gasoline to Crimea through the shallow bottleneck of the Sea of Azov. That leaves road and rail tankers as the primary supply route – a far more dangerous option, since both remain under the fire control of the Freedom-Loving Ukrainian Bird, whether they move on asphalt or rails.
That turned into quite a sentence, but the curious ones will figure it out. I'll explain the rest more clearly in another video soon. Promise.
Back to work, gentlemen! We've got a hell of a lot to do.
We will stand.
Moscow will fall, MoLoChKa⚓️is in action.
Crimea will be fed back up and rebuilt.
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1/ Last night's strike near Armyansk targeted a large semi-underground Russian logistics hub serving as a command and supply center.
The photo shows at least ten civilian aircraft converted into unmanned long-range bombers, each armed with externally mounted bombs.⬇️
@KpsZSU, Lazar Group, and Venom Center were involved in the operation. It's still unclear whether they're reusable or one-way attack drones. A year ago, such a strike over Crimea would have been impossible due to Russian air defenses. Video of the strike will be released later.
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1/ That was fast. Ukrainian uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) can now carry out amphibious landings as well.
❗️Ukraine’s 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade has carried out the first known mission of its kind.
Ukrainian operators remotely guided an unmanned maritime platform across the Black Sea, carrying a machine-gun-equipped ground robot. They landed the robot on the occupied Kinburn coast and sent it behind Russian lines.
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Many people ask what happens to Russian tankers in the Sea of Azov after they're hit. Here's one example: abandoned by their crews and left drifting at sea. It's unclear what Russia will do with such a large number of damaged vessels.