Ukrainian drones: New tech proving a vital battlefield weapon

Ukrainian drones: New tech proving a vital battlefield weapon

everyone knows it’s inevitable a long range Ukrainian unmaned aircraft slamming into buildings in yela tan it’s the country’s furthest reported strike into Russia 1,300 km from the border long range drones have now become a vital part of Ukraine’s war machine in particular enabling it to attack Russia’s oil infrastructure trying to affect its energy sales and fuel for its Army Siri’s Crow funder organization collects donations and turns them into weapons for the Army he explains why they’re using longrange drones we have now uh a lot of missiles that’s that’s the trouble and uh every time when we ask about some missiles from German Partners or French or British or United States so they need to waste a long time to discuss about everything uh so that’s why we can produce uh long range uh drones here’s one of them a bober UAV with a reach of a th000 km it can fly up to 7 hours like others it’s kamakazi meant to crash into its Target and not come back such weapons are very tough to stop says Petro Gan a Ukrainian manufacturer it’s difficult for the enemy to defend against such strikes for several reasons quite an important reason is the large territory that the enemy has to protect no air defense is capable of covering ing such a large territory from a massive drone attack I think it will be tough for Russia to save its economy from Ukrainian drone strikes shorter range drones for use on the front lines are also constantly evolving this is the newest model from gan’s company Rex it’s never been filmed by media before it can identify targets itself and then attack them with whichever of the eight different types of munition that it’s built to carry it’s hard to overestimate how important drones are now in this war for reconnaissance for strikes around the front lines and for attacks on each country’s infrastructure and energy supplies they’ve really become integral to this fight Ukraine aims to build a million drones just this year they become so important that Victory or perhaps just survival depends on them John Holman aler Ukraine make sure to subscribe to our channel to get the latest news from Al jaaz

Ukraine has launched a series of long-range drone strikes aimed at damaging Russia’s oil industry, including a reported attack on a fuel depot in Rostov.
The Ukrainian government sees drones as a vital weapon to disrupt the Russian economy and military operations.
It’s set the target of producing one million unmanned aircraft this year.

Al Jazeera’s John Holman reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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