Ukraine's New Big Boom FP-2 Drone Is Blowing Up Russian Bases In the Most Important Sectors

The FP-2 packs a 230-pound warhead

In late February, a Ukrainian force of around a dozen battalions was stubbornly clinging to a 250-square-mile salient in Kursk Oblast in western Russia.

That salient was an embarrassment to Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin. So the Kremlin deployed its best drone unit to Kursk on a mission of supreme importance.

The Rubicon Center of Advanced Unmanned Systems wasn’t well-known at the time. But it quickly achieved fame in Russia—and notoriety in Ukraine. Surging unjammable fiber-optic first-person-view drones into Kursk, Rubicon destroyed hundreds of Ukrainian vehicles in the span of a few weeks, effectively collapsing the Ukrainians’ supply lines into Kursk.

In early March, the Ukrainian battalions in the salient beat a hasty retreat. And in the coming months, Rubicon packed up and moved to the next most important battlefield in Russia’s wider war on Ukraine: the one around Pokrovsk, a fortress city anchoring Ukrainian defenses in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.

The Ukrainians aren’t just waiting around for Rubicon to do in Pokrovsk what it did in Kursk—sever the supply lines. They’re taking the fight to Rubicon. On Friday, Ukrainian forces located a Rubicon base in Ukrainsk, 13 miles south of Pokrovsk. They attacked with a new, more destructive strike drone—the Fire Point FP-2.

As a surveillance drone watched from overhead, four of the new FP-2s slammed into the building reportedly housing the Rubicon operators. (See video above.)