A Shahed With “Whiskers” Just Appeared in Ukraine—And They Have a Very Specific Purpose
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A Shahed With “Whiskers” Just Appeared in Ukraine—And They Have a Very Specific Purpose
Russia appears to be turning its jet-powered Shahed drones into specialized weapons for hunting Ukraine’s power grid, adding unusual whisker-like rods designed to trigger the warhead when the drone touches something as thin as a high-voltage cable.
The Russian army began to attack Ukraine with a new model of drones of the type "Chahed" (called "Geran-2" Russians). The new drones are equipped with "musts". For the first time the new model of drones was used yesterday, during the blows on the electricity infrastructure of Kiev, transmits the Ukrainian press.
Sergey Flash Beskresnov said that the metal whiskers on the Russian Geranium drones turned out to be a simple mechanical detonator, and not antennas or sensors TSN.ua (news 1+1)
The impact drone "Geran 4" observed new elements in the front of the hull, as reported by Telegram Channel "The War Chronicle".
Russia began to use strike drones against Ukraine with unusual designs similar to “whiskers”. At the moment it is not known exactly what the Russians installed it for
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