Two thirds of Russian tanks destroyed in Ukraine in recent months were destroyed using FPV drones, small flying machines controlled via virtual reality glasses. This estimate, taken up by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which monitors the evolution of the conflict on a daily basis, illustrates the preponderant place of these weapons. Equipped with an explosive charge, drones replace shells.
A “game changer”
Equipped with detection means, they serve reconnaissance missions. Depending on their size, they can be used on the front or in the depth. The French army, which missed the technological turning point, is trying to catch up. Between the industrialists and the general management of armaments, we blame each other.
The development of remotely operated munitions (MTO), that is to say expendable drones, has been made a priority by the Ministry of the Armed Forces. Drones
“are a game changer for the Ukrainian army,”
Minister Sébastien Lecornu declared in March, announcing…