NATO believes Ukraine destroyed most Russian tanks with drones over last several months

Illustrative photo of the FPV drone. Photo: Getty Images

Over the past few months, more than two thirds of Russian tanks were destroyed by Ukrainian soldiers with the help of the FPV drones, which shows that Kyiv relies on this particular weapon more and more amidst the acute artillery ammunition deficit.

Source: Foreign Policy with reference to an official representative of NATO, as reported by European Pravda

Details: The story says the FPV drones used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine have low efficiency. They are equipped with cheap cameras which makes it harder to aim at night or in cloudy weather, and often carry  improvised explosive devices, which sometimes explode right in the air or do not detonate at all.

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The analysts surveyed by Foreign Policy believe that the FPV drones attacks on the Russian tanks have controversial results.

Rob Lee, senior fellow of the Eurasian Program of the Institute of Foreign Policy Research, indicates that a general accuracy of FPV-drones is less than 50%, and in some cases as many as 10 or more drones are needed to destroy a tank.

At the same time, Lee states, Russia is running out of armoured vehicles and tanks so while preserving current dynamics in the combat zone Moscow may lose its quantitative superiority and make conducting its own offensive operations in the future more difficult.

“The issue is that Russia’s getting a lot of manpower,” Lee added.

Background:

• At the beginning of the year, the UK Defence Intelligence analysed the influence of FPV drones over the situation on the left bank of Kherson Oblast and explained why it is difficult for the Russian occupiers to counteract them.

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