Ukraine’s military says video shows advanced Russian T-90 tank destroyed by $500 drone packed with explosives

• Video shows a Russian T-90 tank falling off a small cliff and getting stuck.

• It has become a sitting duck for attack drones in Ukraine.

• Ukraine rigs cheap drones with explosives and pummels expensive Russian equipment.

A video shows the moment a Russian T-90 tank fell off a small cliff and was then destroyed by a Ukrainian attack drone.

Ukrainian air assault forces shared footage of the incident at cableshowing the tank sliding off a leafy cliff face and appearing to be stuck halfway down.

The next shot shows the car hitting a drone, causing it to explode.

“Another enemy tank – done,” the 80th Air Assault Brigade said in the leaflet.

The publication said the successful strike was carried out using FPV (first-person perspective) drones, cheap drones reinvented by Ukraine to extract millions worth of Russian equipment.

Loitering amateur munitions can be armed with a makeshift warhead and inflict massive damage on expensive multimillion-dollar tanks and weapon systems, imposing much greater costs on the enemy, inside Previously mentioned.

“The whole point is cost,” Samuel Bendett, a Russian defense and technology expert at the Center for Naval Analytics, told Insider. “This is very cost effective.”

A single FPV drone tends to cost around $400 to $500, or about the cost of a new Playstation.

account called war monitor On X, formerly known as Twitter, which tracks the events of the conflict in Ukraine, it said the T-90 destruction occurred south of Kleshchevka in Donetsk, near Pakhmut, the scene of the fiercest fighting of the 18-month war. .

The 80th Air Assault Brigade, one of the Ukrainian military’s oldest and toughest formations, was deployed to Bakhmut last month, according to a special report in The Jerusalem Post.

Russia suffered huge losses of equipment during its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, with visually documented losses of over 2,200 tanks, per an open source tracking website. oryx.

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