Now in its fourth 12 months, the Russia-Ukraine battle has unleashed upon the world the ‘drone wars’, the place these small flying craft have reorganized how high-intensity wars are fought.
Within the context of a peer-to-peer battle with heavy gear and fortified strongholds, it turns into not a warfare of motion, however a warfare of attrition, during which either side needs to destroy the opposite’s capabilities.
That’s the place the drones enter – from the Russian ‘Geraniums’ (Shahed) to the Ukrainian Baba-Yaga, to the myriads of quadcopters utilized by either side.
The drones provide an answer costing hundreds or tens of hundreds – and is able to destroying tanks, armored autos, and different items of apparatus that value in a multi-million-dollar vary.
Whereas Kiev had the higher hand on this expertise to start with of the warfare, this has lengthy since modified, with Moscow’s output now bigger than all of the western powers mixed.
And the ways have additionally modified, as an elite Russian drone is making a distinction on this part of the warfare, and has now seen destroying the dear HIMARS artillery programs that Ukraine depends on a lot.
Russian forces have destroyed a Ukrainian HIMARS with a fiber optic FPV drone 30km behind the road of contact.
This may be one the only finest trade ratio of the warfare.
$1000 drone vs 3.5 million greenback missile system. pic.twitter.com/NhNLS1b3kv
— ayden (@squatsons) May 6, 2025
The Telegraph reported:
“The assault was reportedly carried out by Rubicon, the Kremlin’s elite drone warfare unit that Ukrainian troopers have come to worry. Beforehand deployed earlier this 12 months throughout Russia’s brutal marketing campaign to recapture the japanese city of Kursk, Rubicon has now been redirected to hunt Ukraine’s Most worthy battlefield property: its US-supplied long-range missiles. There are indicators it’s succeeding.”
The Joe Biden regime despatched at least 40 of those programs.
The benefit of the HIMARS is sitting ‘deep behind the entrance line’. However now, as we’ve discovered, no place within the rear in ‘protected’ anymore.
“Due to their significance, it’s uncommon for a Himars launcher to be positioned simply 10km from the entrance line. The one which was destroyed close to the war-torn city of Chasov Yar was subsequently most likely getting used to hit a goal deep behind enemy strains.”
Work of the Russian drone unit “Rubicon” within the Donbass areas. pic.twitter.com/bzPkGCj0Xz
— Spetsnaℤ 007 (@Alex_Oloyede2) May 5, 2025
The Joe Biden regime despatched at least 40 of those programs.
The benefit of the HIMARS is sitting ‘deep behind the entrance line’. However now, as we’ve discovered, no place within the rear in ‘protected’ anymore.
“Due to their significance, it’s uncommon for a Himars launcher to be positioned simply 10km from the entrance line. The one which was destroyed close to the war-torn city of Chasov Yar was subsequently most likely getting used to hit a goal deep behind enemy strains.”
The Telegraph report counts no less than 4 HIMARS destroyed up to now.
And the newest expertise employed by Russian drone squads is an actual menace to Kiev.
“Not like earlier losses, which principally resulted from missile or artillery strikes, the newest assault on one of many programs was reportedly carried out by a first-person view (FPV) drone utilizing a fiber-optic steering cable – a classy and largely jam-proof design that alerts a harmful shift within the battle. Conventional FPV drones are weak to Ukraine’s digital warfare programs, which jam incoming frequencies and render them blind mid-flight. However fiber-optic drones are bodily tethered to their operators by way of ultra-thin cables that transmit real-time video and steering alerts.”
The Russian Rubicon drone staff printed one other compilation of Russian FPV drone strikes towards Ukranian recon drones.
I counted 24 on this sequence. pic.twitter.com/kuSI1usYSA
— Heyman_101 (@SU_57R) May 19, 2025
The Russian fiber-optic drones are at this level principally unimaginable to jam.
The ‘Rubicon’ squad was established again in October 2024 by orders of Russia’s new protection minister, Andrei Belousov – a civilian.
“Its drone pilots now function in no less than seven specialist detachments throughout japanese Ukraine, finishing up complicated, decentralized missions. The unit’s ways are equally fashionable. In the course of the Kursk offensive, Rubicon drones reportedly struck quick segments of street – simply 100 to 300 meters lengthy – from a number of angles without delay, catching convoys in deadly ambushes.”
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