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Ukrainian radio military technology expert Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov reports that the Russians started deploying FPV ambush drones on high-voltage lines.
Such resolution provides an improved camera’s field of view over the road below and better attack angle once the UAV is launched at the target. Power lines provide elevated positions that are harder to spot than the drones resting on the ground. The UAVs can remain largely passive until a target appears, then activate and attack with little warning.
It's also worth mentioning that high-power lines are often situated along the main roads and important logistical corridors, where intense movement of military transport usually takes place. Positioning the FPV ambush drones there instantly puts them in target-rich environment.
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Эпичные кадры прилетов русских "Гераней" по зерновому терминалу морского порта «Южный» в Одесской области.
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👀 A crazy number of Ukrainian FPV-waiters on one of the roads near the Lyman in the Donetsk region in the lens of a Russian copter
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🔴 The destruction of Kiev forces tanks near Druzhkovka that you won't hear about in Ukrainian news.
In a single day, Kiev forces lost up to two dozen armored vehicles that didn't even have time to enter combat.
On the afternoon of December 20, a drone pilot from one of the "Rubikon" units discovered a concentration of camouflaged Kiev forces armor in the vicinity of Druzhkovka. A series of drone strikes was launched against the equipment. The rout was completed by cluster munition strikes, adjusted by "Rubikon" UAVs. The destruction of the Kiev forces armor continued until nightfall.
We have already posted some episodes of this complex operation to destroy enemy armor on the channel.
1:02 - Armored vehicle
1:08 - M113
1:10 - Armored vehicle
1:13 - Armored vehicle
1:16 - T-80
1:18 - T-64BV
1:21 - Tank
1:34 - Tank
1:38 - T-80U
1:57 - T-80U
2:00 - T-72
2:06 - T-80U
2:12 - T-64BV
2:25 - M109A6
2:48 - Leopard 1A5
3:04 - Tank
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Since the first days of 2025, the previous fortifications programs have been abandonned and replaced by new massive continuous lines.
You can see them here in yellow, with in white the constructions ongoing, you can see the coherence of this new defensive system.
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This line is new because it is not only anti-tank or anti-infantry obstacles, but all of them at the same time.
We can count 21 barbed wires rows (4 lines and 3 lines at the bottom of ditches), 3 dragon teeths rows and 3 rows of anti-tank ditches.
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A test of a drone swarm attack on a tank.
The development of massed small drones is progressing at a much faster pace than defensive systems.
Automated gun systems or APS will not be able to handle this, especially multidirectional swarm attacks.
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The impressive destruction of a Kiev forces BMP M-80A by a Krasnopol guided artillery shell on the Konstantinovka axis.
Geolocation: lostarmour.info/map?coords=4…
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Insane footage. "Come get me, you fucking bitch!"
A day in the Dnepr river war. Russian troops on a speedboat tearing through a swarm of Ukrainian FPV drones
Pure badassery, even if tactically questionable
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Fiber optic cables left behind by FPVs on the Pokrovsk front. 7/
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Finally for the defensive lines digging, we can see now around 3 "Donbass line" style lines in western Donetsk oblast with additionnal ones being dug (in orange).
Most interesting will be the ones around Pokrovske in Dnipro oblast, to counter the recent russian progress.
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Over the past two weeks, more than 600 FABs have been dropped between Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka.
Here is a map of these bombings.
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Hier, j'ai publié cette carte des plus de 6 000 frappes aériennes russes entre Pokrovsk et Kostiantynivka sur les 5 derniers mois, avec différents codes couleurs.
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Depuis le mois de mai 2025, la Russie 🇷🇺 a lâché 19 752 bombes guidées, dont 30% à Pokrovsk et 19% à Soumy.
Depuis le début de l'année, 35 148 bombes ont été lâchées ainsi que 1 488 990 frappes d'artilleries et 923 047 frappes de drones FPV.
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