Ukraine has started arming its drones with shotguns to shoot down Russian drones and kill soldiers.
In video footage posted online by pro-Ukraine bloggers, a drone armed with two shotguns flies across a battlefield. The drone fixes on at least three Russian drones carrying grenades, one after the other, and shoots. Each of the Russian drones crashes to the ground.
Next, the drone then spots a single Russian soldier walking along a road. It swoops down and fires, but misses. The drone swings around, pulls back up and dives for a second strike. This time, the soldier falls to the ground.
Online, pro-Ukraine commentators celebrated the success of the shotgun-armed drone.
“This is amazing,” said Sergej Sumlenny, founder of the European Resilience Initiative Center think tank. “This is the first case of a firearm-armed first-person view drone I see which really makes sense.”
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