NewsUkrainian "Dragon drones" spark panic with fiery attacks on Russians

Ukrainian "Dragon drones" spark panic with fiery attacks on Russians

The Ukrainian army has started using dragon drones, which drop a burning mixture with a temperature of 2,500 degrees Celsius. The drones have already been used in Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions. Kyiv has released new footage of attacks with "dragon drones" that are causing panic among Russian soldiers.

They burn everything in their path. Russians terrified of the new weapon.
They burn everything in their path. Russians terrified of the new weapon.
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Mateusz Czmiel

4 September 2024 22:12

These drones do not drop grenades or fly to the target with explosives. "Dragon drones," which are spreading panic among the Russians, injure in another way. The principle of the "dragons" is simple: they scatter a flammable mixture over the enemy, causing the area below the drone to catch fire.

Burns everything in its path

As Channel 24 describes, it takes just 20 seconds of fiery rain to set a strip of forest approximately 100 metres long on fire. The most important thing is that the fire ignites ammunition, causing it to detonate.

The burning temperature of thermite is about 2,500 degrees Celsius, which means that the hot mixture corrodes even iron within a few seconds, and mortars, grenades, and bullets become lethal to their owners.

The drones have been used, among others, by the 108th Separate Territorial Defence Brigade of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Unmanned Systems Battalion from the 42nd Mechanised Brigade in the Kharkiv region, and the 60th Separate Mechanised Brigade.

"Russia is panicking." Ukrainians have the "dragon drone"

The use of the "dragon drone" was confirmed for the first time on Tuesday at 12:00 GMT. "Russians are terrified and panicking. Ukrainians have the 'dragon drone.' It shells enemy positions with a flamethrower," - wrote at the time Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsapilienko, a war correspondent for TSN.

Commenting on the footage from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the editor-in-chief of the Censor.net portal Yuriy Butusov noted that it was previously used by the Russian channel "Rybar,” whose sources are close to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

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