Published on 04/25/2022 21:02
France 2 articles written by
M.Boisseau, R.Mathé, L.Feuillebois, A.Kononenko – France 2
France TV
Since the start of the war in Ukraine two months ago, Ukrainian armed forces have managed to neutralize enemy tanks thanks to drones detecting them. Devices sometimes made by civilians working with the Ukrainian army. The 20 hours hit one of them.
In a YouTube video, a drone equipped with a camera drops its bombs on a Russian tank to video game-like music. This is how Aerorozvidka became famous in social networks and destroyed the enemy. The unit, which says it struck about a week ago near Mykolaiv, Ukraine, is fully part of Ukraine’s defense against the Russians.
But these are civilians: a hundred enthusiasts who make their devices and now work with the army. The 20 hours hit one of them. He wants to hide his identity. “Our members are very different people: students, computer scientists, scientists or business people. We believe that our drones are very useful in this conflict. We are literally changing the rules of war,” he testifies. One of the group’s feats of arms is said to have helped repel a huge convoy of Russian armored vehicles that was rushing toward Kyiv, Ukraine, in early March.