FPVs Hog The Spotlight, But Heavy Bomber Drones Are The Real Killers Of Russian Troops
Heavy bomber drones can linger ... and drop four grenades per sortie
Explosive first-person-view drones get a lot of the attention, but the most dangerous drones in the sky over Ukraine—especially for the Russians—are heavy bomber drones.
Where an FPV explodes on contact, making it single-use, a heavy bomber drone is reusable. It can strike repeatedly with a payload of several grenades and then return to base for more munitions.
The devastation bomber drones can inflict is evident in a video montage posted by the Ukrainian army’s 42nd Mechanized Brigade, defending around the village of Novopavlivka in eastern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The montage (see below) depicts multiple lethal bombings of scattered Russian infantry, but the final shot in the montage is most telling. We see what the bomber drone sees as it hovers over a clutch of Russian vehicles disgorging an entire platoon of around 25 infantry under the cover of darkness.
The thermal-camera-equipped bomber strikes while the infantry are most vulnerable—when they’re outside of their vehicles but still packed into tight groups. Dropping two grenades in quick succession, the bomber evidently kills several Russians.
“Night bombers are out hunting and turning enemy infantry into mincemeat!” the 42nd Mechanized Brigade crowed.
