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Wicked Blue

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Tue Mar 1, 2022, 05:38 PM Mar 2022

Ukraine's Secret Weapon Against Russia: Turkish Drones

Time via MSN

In a video that went viral on Twitter Sunday night, a massive explosion rips through what appears to be a Russian convoy, scoring a direct hit on a surface-to-air missile system.

The black-and-white footage, posted to the account of the Ukrainian armed forces, is one of several that have emerged on social media in recent days showing the devastating impact of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian hardware. As the drone’s payload explodes in the video—which appears to be a cellphone recording of a screen in a Ukrainian drone facility—people at the facility can be heard gasping in awe before breaking out in cheers and applause.

The video racked up more than 3 million views on Twitter in two days. “Have fear, enemies! There will be no peace for you on our earth!” the Ukrainian armed forces wrote in the video’s caption.

The star of this video and others circulating on Twitter is the Bayraktar TB2 – a type of Turkish drone that the Ukrainian military has increasingly deployed against Russian forces in recent days. On Tuesday, the Ukrainian military said that Bayraktar drones had destroyed one tank and two surface-to-air missile systems overnight. In other videos shared on Twitter, Bayraktar drones, in use by the military since at least 2021, are shown blowing up what appears to be a Russian fuel convoy and a group of supply trucks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-s-secret-weapon-against-russia-turkish-drones/ar-AAUtZco

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Ukraine's Secret Weapon Against Russia: Turkish Drones (Original Post) Wicked Blue Mar 2022 OP
YouTube video canetoad Mar 2022 #1
I wonder how many Bayraktars they have bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #3
Bayraktar TB2 PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #4
That's great!! PortTack Mar 2022 #5

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