Ukraine Marines Hacked a Russian Drone to Find Its Base and Then Shelled It

• A video reveals Ukrainian forces inserting a Russian drone base in Kherson.
• A Ukrainian drone commander talked about they found the positioning after hacking a Russian FPV drone and geolocating the footage.
• Drone warfare has helped Ukraine in Krynky, the place its forces have established a bridgehead in newest weeks.

Ukrainian forces say they found and attacked a Russian drone base after hacking a drone and geolocating the footage.

Ukrainian drone commander Robert Brovdi talked about that digital warfare specialists have been acutely aware of a Russian first-person-view (FPV) drone flying in Kherson and that the feed was “intercepted immediately,” Forbes reported.

The footage was despatched to Ukraine’s thirty sixth Marine Brigade, who geolocated it and despatched a reconnaissance drone to investigate the realm, Brovdi talked about.

A video reveals a drone positioning itself above a setting up on the Russian web site, which is then struck by artillery.

The video was shared on-line by Ukraine’s Birds of Magyar unit, one in every of many nation’s best-known drone regiments.

Brovdi talked about there have been plenty of indicators that helped the crew set up the underside, along with a radio antenna and a cable connecting the antenna to the setting up the place the drone operators have been housed.

The incident befell near Krynky, a village in Kherson Oblast positioned on the east monetary establishment of the Dnipro River.

Ukrainian marines have pushed all through the river in newest weeks and established a bridgehead in Krynky.

Forbes reported that Ukraine had effectively taken administration of the skies spherical Krynky using drones and digital warfare — every of which have proved to be important throughout the battle.

Creating digital warfare has been a key priority for Ukraine, with the nation’s excessive fundamental Valerii Zaluzhnyi saying it could be “key to victory” in a drone wrestle that has increasingly been dominated by FPV drones.