❗️First combat use of a drone with a grenade launcher
🔫Novopavlivka direction.
😷Pilots of the BULAVA unit from the 3rd Mechanized Battalion of our brigade successfully tested a drone with a mounted grenade launcher in combat conditions.
🔫In the video — confirmed elimination of an occupier at 00:34.
#3MB #opbr #drone #grenadelauncher
First combat use of a drone with a grenade launcher in the AFU
Pilots of the BULAVA unit from the Separate Presidential Brigade named after B. Khmelnytskyi mounted a grenade launcher on the Queen Hornet drone and successfully used it against enemy infantry.
The video shows an occupier being eliminated.
That moment when an occupier received an exclusive death.
It’s definitely true that most NATO troops have never trained for battlefield situations where drones are everywhere, and most current NATO gear isn’t built with the idea in mind that drones will be constantly attacking them from above. NATO definitely has a lot of adapting to do.
My point was just that light drone capabilities aren’t completely unknown to NATO, and that a lot of tech and doctrine had already been developed and implemented before the war. That should make it easier to adapt than if we were starting from scratch.
Drones are the future of warfare and have changed it as much as planes, tanks or machineguns have. With russia constantly threatening to invade and mass murder everyone bordering it, the best time to start retraining troops would have been yesterday.
I know that Norway started training its standard infantry with light drones a year or two ago, I can only hope other NATO countries are doing the same.
One can home foreign warriors come back home and train a new generation fast enough