Cardboard drones are a difficult and inexpensive weapon to capture. This will be a new weapon used by Ukraine in its attack against Russia. Like paper airplanes but deadly: Corvo drones Precision Load Distribution System They are produced by an Australian company, Sypaq, thanks to a contract with the Australian military in excess of one million euros. And last March, the same Melbourne-based company reached an agreement with Kiev to make a technology that has proven effective available to the Ukrainian armed forces.
According to the manufacturer, these “cardboard planes” are easy to assemble – the drone comes in a package about half a meter long and is not much more complicated than an IKEA product – and is even easier to launch thanks to simple rubber bands. Drones can fly up to 120 kilometers to deliver materials and equipment to areas where traditional logistics capacity cannot reach. But the Ukrainian military has adapted the technology, adapting drones for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions by simply inserting a camera into a hole in a waxed cardboard frame.
Cardboard drones of the Ukrainian army
Since last March, Australia has reportedly provided 100 “cardboard drones” each month as part of a $20 million aid package. These vehicles, which are reported to cost around $3,500 each, are cheap by military standards and can fly at 60 kilometers per hour, completely invisible to radars. This potential has drawn media attention after Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia echoed the claims of a leading Russian military. The blogger said that these cardboard drones were used to attack a Russian airspace in Novgorod and destroy or damage at least one military aircraft. According to a pro-Russian Telegram channel hunter_bomberThe Ukrainian military allegedly used several swarms of “Crows” in the middle of bomb-laden drones to help the swarm evade radar.
But “cardboard drones” could be adapted to carry explosives, according to Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia.
With the continuation of the Ukrainian offensive, it will be possible to see how game-changing these new weapons can actually be. As Russian forces continue to bomb Ukrainian cities heavily, drone strikes attributed to Ukraine targeting both Moscow and other Russian cities have been occurring almost daily for several months. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, Ukrainian drones targeted the airport of Pskov, a Russian city about 700 kilometers from Ukraine, close to the border with Estonia, Latvia and Belarus. “The drones used to attack the Kresty airbase in Pskov were launched from within Russia,” said military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov, officially admitting for the first time that Kiev is operating on Russian soil.
Ukraine is trying to take the struggle into the heart of Russia, with limited progress so far, at a time when the Kiev army is engaged in a very formidable counter-attack to liberate the occupied areas east and south of its territory. He said he hopes for an early breakthrough on the southern front after the liberation of the Robotyne region this week in Kiev.
NEW: Ukrainian forces resume close offensive operations #Bakhmut inside #Donetsk Oblast and west #Zaporizhia On August 31, it was reported that the Oblast was advancing in both sectors of the front.
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But the challenge for Moscow is also in the Black Sea: two new merchant ships left the Ukrainian port and headed for Turkey via the maritime corridor created by Kiev, despite Russia’s threat of retaliation after Russia’s export deal was cancelled. grain. Previously, two other boats had managed to reach Turkey in the same way and without any problems.
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