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Video footage of the war shows Russian unmanned aircraft destroying Ukrainian night bombers.
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The Ukrainian vampire drones have been a headache for the Russian military, but the Russians are now intercepting them.
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Taking out a drone with another drone is a cheaper solution than some other air defense options.
Recent images from the war show Russia using its own unmanned aerial vehicles to shoot down Ukrainian night bombers.
Russia has struggled to contain Ukrainian vampire drones, which have caused significant damage to the Russian military overnight, but recent combat videos circulating on social media suggest the Russians may have come up with a solution.
The videos show Russia successfully destroying the drones using its own UAVs as interceptors, war observers have reported. Business Insider could not independently verify the alleged details of the footage.
Nicknamed “Baba Yaga” drones by Russian forces, a reference to an evil creature in Slavic folklore, the Ukrainian vampire drones can regularly avoid detection and can fly at high speeds, allowing them to wreak havoc on the Russian military.
The Ukrainian drones can find targets during the day with the standard camera and at night with the help of thermal images. Their ability to operate both day and night makes them significantly more useful compared to the other drones in Ukraine, but they are not as cheap.
Drone-on-drone combat became less common as the war progressed, but it is now starting to become more common. To counter Ukraine’s extensive use of UAVs, Russia has begun targeting them using first-person-view drones, Russian commentators have noted lately.
They “will mow down the ranks of Baba Yaga drones,” said one commentator about FPV drones, according to a translation of the comments by Samuel Bendett, a Russian drone expert. “This clumsy and slow-moving bomber has already been shot down by experienced FPV drone crews.”
The commentators predict that the FPV drone could become a ‘superweapon’, as powerful as the anti-tank guided missiles used to destroy armored military vehicles. In many ways, these systems are already reshaping modern warfare, threatening everything that moves, from top tanks to individual soldiers.
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