The swift deployment of advanced kamikaze drones such as the Hortensia, Upir, and Boomerang into military operations by the Russian army, as the conflict in Ukraine continues, heralds a strategic shift in modern warfare and alters defense strategy dynamics.
A Paratrooper of the 79th Tavria Separate Airborne Assault Brigade shot down five Russian drones with his assault rifle, the brigade reported on Facebook on Dec. 25.
Ukraine should indeed be able to produce a million FPV drones, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the day before. Source: Ukrainska Pravda with a reference to a source in the defence industry and a comment by Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation Details: Ukrainska Pravda's sources in the defence industry said that Ukraine has already had a production facility capable of producing up to 500,000 FPV drones per year.
FPV drones are cheap to manufacture and can be precisely flown into targets. They have the capability of destroying much more expensive military equipment.
Ukraine produced over 50,000 FPV drones for the Defence Forces in December. Source: Oleksandr Kamyshin, Ukraine's Minister for Strategic Industries Quote from Kamyshin: "At the end-of-year press conference yesterday, the president [Zelenskyy] promised that Ukraine would produce a million drones next year.