FPV drones, small racing quadcopters typically armed with warheads scavenged from RPGs, have been the signature weapon of the conflict in Ukraine. Ukraine made more than a million last year ...
Ukrainians have started employing a new type of warhead in their FPV drones, which effectively overcomes ... or slimmed-down PG-7VL grenades from RPG-7 grenade launchers as warheads.
It was a generic quadcopter with a 25-centimeter (10-inch) frame designed to carry the warhead from an RPG round or a similarly sized explosive charge. Every day during the ongoing war in Ukraine ...
The Russian drone in the video appears to be the so-called “Prince Vandal of Novgorod” UAV, recognizable by the large rear-mounted fiber-optic cable drum carrying a shaped charge warhead from a rocket ...
While it is not described as being, like the racing drones turned into kamikazes, the Red Cat FPV is likely to be weaponized with the addition of a warhead. “The FPV drones have a carrying ...
A storied Ukrainian military drone unit said it has developed a way to counter an increasingly deadly weapon — Russian first-person view (FPV) drones that use fiber optic cables instead of radio waves ...