The War in the Ukraine

Important development here for drone warfare:

Russia Debuts Long-Range Drone Control System: First Strike Coordinated From Moscow​

In a significant technological leap, Russian forces have successfully testes a new drone control system. Russian military launched a strike on Ukrainian military target near Chasiv Yar from Moscow at a distance of over 1,000 kilometers. The attack was carried out using an FPV drone Ovod (Gadfly) guided by the experimental Orbita (Orbit) remote control system, marking a potential revolution in drone warfare tactics.

According to reports, the operation unfolded in several stages. A drone team from the Española brigade prepared and launched the Ovod FPV drone in the area of Chasiv Yar. Control was then handed over to an operator located in Moscow’s Moscow-City business district. The drone passed more than 11 kilometers before precisely hitting its target.

Developers of the Orbita system told Russian media that the technology allows operators to command drones from anywhere in the world, eliminating the need for frontline personnel to be physically near combat zones.

If confirmed successful, this capability represents a major tactical shift in modern warfare. Key advantages include:

• Reduced operator losses and increase their morale: Instead of operators working in dangerous frontline conditions, they can now control drones safely from remote locations.
• Scalability: Mass production of drones would no longer be bottlenecked by the number of trained frontline operators.
• Centralized coordination: Elite operators could control multiple drones across different battlefields from a single secured command hub.
• Global reach: Operators could guide strikes from thousands of kilometers away, complicating enemy countermeasures.

The successful deployment of Orbita system suggests Russia is addressing one of the key limitations of FPV drones, like their short operational range and dependence on local operators. If widely implemented, the system could increase the precision and frequency of Russian drone strikes; allow deep rear operators to conduct missions without risking frontline exposure; force Ukraine to adapt its electronic warfare tactics to counter a more dispersed and resilient drone network.

So far, the system’s reliability and resistance to jamming remain untested at large scale. Ukraine’s advanced electronic warfare capabilities could disrupt long-range signals, and latency issues might complicate real-time adjustments.

Russia’s first confirmed 1,000 km controlled FPV drone strike signals a potential shift in unmanned warfare. If Orbita proves effective, it could decouple drone operations from geography, allowing Moscow to project force more flexibly while preserving skilled operators. For Ukraine, this means facing an even more adaptive and resilient drone threat in the months ahead.

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Clearly, after the end of Ukraine’s war for independence from Russia, Ukraine will demobilize a significant portion of its soldiers. However, in order to continue deterring the Russians, Ukraine will maintain a large, capable, and modern army. Similarly, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers, with vast experience in modern warfare, will return from the front and seek new employment. They could become a solid foundation for a new

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, replacing U.S. troops, who could return home or be deployed wherever America’s interests demand. But they could also form part of a completely new security component proposed by the United States, relying on Ukrainian allies and considering European interests, thereby strengthening the U.S. position in this part of the world with the most capable and dedicated forces.

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Rare footage of a Russian Grad MLRS strike on Ukrainian army positions in Pokrovsk was filmed by a Russian FPV drone. The drone was right in the epicenter of the rocket explosions. The 122 mm Grad multiple launch rocket system was adopted by the USSR in 1963. The firing range of the Grad MLRS is up to 42 km. More than 30 countries use the Grad MLRS, not counting similar systems.

Specialists of the 42nd Guards Division of the Dnepr Group of the Russian Armed Forces showed lightweight special Russian ammunition for FPV drones. RPG grenades for equipping FPV drones are now used less and less often. Lightweight homemade ammunition for drones is increasingly being made, this can be seen in the video from the military operations in Ukraine. The ribbons that appear when drones explode are most likely such ammunition. There are no factory-made lightweight ammunition yet, but according to a serviceman, some of them are made according to the developments of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Night hunters. A Ukrainian T-72 tank, a D-30 howitzer, and a Senator APC falls victim to marauding Orion and Forpost-R UAVs.


2A65 MSTA-B 152mm howitzer of Group South takes out a Ukrainian UAV control point in Seversk. Krasnopols are often used taking out drone crews and their depot's and shelters.


2A65 MSTA-B of the 238th takes out a Ukrainian stronghold towards the Toretsk direction.


Ukrainian PVDs and UAV control points in Scherbinovka hit by drones, mortars and a Grad MLRS.


LMUR hits an AFU drone control point in Kondrashovka in the Kupyansk direction.


Dnepropetrovosk hit by at least 10 German drones.


Gerans hit Izium.


Two FAB-500s going off near the Belgorod border.


Gornal Monastery back in Russian hands, thanks to the Russian Marines.


A Ukrainian T-64BV is hit by a drone in the Sumy region. Russians have far more square km of territory in Sumy alone than what Ukraine still has left on both Kursk and Belgorod borders.


FPV drone intercepts a Baba Yagas while being filmed by another drone.


Bukovel AD EW station taken out by Russian fiberoptic drone.


British AS-90 hit by a fiberoptic drone.


Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky was drafted into the Red Army in 1942 at the age of 18, and fought all the way up to the Battle of Berlin with commendations and saw the fall of the Third Reich. Grandfather of you know who.


Another meeting of Ukrainian officers and foreign mercenaries in the Kherson Ice Palace at the Berislavky district in Kherson gets visited by a salvo of UMPBs.


An Uragan MLRS conducts a fire mission for the Group West of forces, targeting an AFU force concentration.


Crew of a Sky-SVU radar station talks about their work. Enemy UAVs are detected, their coordinates are transferred to air defense systems. In one example, a Buk-M2 responded and took out a UAV.


Artillery of the VDV works on AFU positions in the Kursk border.


Artillery from Group West takes out a Ukrainian UAV control point.


Orion UAV takes out a Ukrainian AFV using N X-UAV ATGM. Bairak in the Sumy region.


Russian missile strike, probably Tornado-S, takes out a Ukrainian UAV control center near Prokhody, Sumy region.


FABs arrive on Ukrainian positions in Zelene Pole, South Donetsk.


FABs arrive on a Ukrainian UAV control center in Malynivka.


Artillery from Group East takes out a Ukrainian UAV control point and a mortar site.


Grads hit a concentration and position of Ukrainian infantry in the Zaporozhye region.

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Specialists of the 42nd Guards Division of the Dnepr Group of the Russian Armed Forces showed lightweight special Russian ammunition for FPV drones. RPG grenades for equipping FPV drones are now used less and less often. Lightweight homemade ammunition for drones is increasingly being made, this can be seen in the video from the military operations in Ukraine. The ribbons that appear when drones explode are most likely such ammunition. There are no factory-made lightweight ammunition yet, but according to a serviceman, some of them are made according to the developments of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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The wire on a side are a contact switch for detonation ??? Look crazy unsafe if they work lake this, current on this wires is probably remote operated on the terminal phase. Don't know if you can trigger these with ECM.

Russian FPV drone operators have shown footage of a drone attacking a Ukrainian FV104 Samaritan armored personnel carrier. The location of the shooting is not reported. Very few FV104 armored personnel carriers were produced; it was developed in 1976 in Britain. It is worth noting that the Russian army is already using FV104 armored personnel carriers. Judging by the video, the FV104 armored personnel carrier was hit by several strikes from Russian drones. The fate of the crew is unknown

An episode of the battle of Ukrainian units in the village of Valentynivka, in the Toretsk direction, this is in the Donbass. The video shows an attempt by two Ukrainian soldiers to capture a temporary stay point for Russian servicemen in one of the buildings in Valentynivka. In the video, Ukrainian servicemen throw grenades at the building, in response, Russian servicemen also throw a grenade, shown with an arrow. Further, drones allegedly provide support to Russian servicemen, ammunition is dropped from them. As a result of the battle, one Ukrainian serviceman is wounded, the second serviceman dies in a neighboring barn. Presumably, there was a third Ukrainian soldier. At the end of the video, a Ukrainian soldier is shown walking, and then he is shown wounded, lying on the threshold of the house. The video is shortened

The fighting is gradually approaching Kherson. Footage has been published of four Russian FAB-500 air bombs equipped with UMPK modules hitting a temporary deployment point and logistics center of the Ukrainian army in Kherson. The bombs were dropped by a Russian Su-34 frontline fighter-bomber. The video was filmed from two angles. According to one version, there were three FAB-500 bomb strikes. The fourth explosion may have been the detonation of something in the building.

Russians take Valentinovka.


During the Battle of Valentinovka, a Russian ground drone with explosives entered a Ukrainian hideout.


UAV control point of the AFU 24th separate assault battalion gets hit by an Uragan MLRS in Malaya Ribitsa, Sumy region.


Lancet takes out an M198 howitzer in the Kupyansk direction.


Gerans damage aftermath. From satellite imagery, three German hits are observed on the Antonov plant in Dnepropetrovosk. The plant was making Lyut drones.


Two Geran hits were observed on the hanger used for aircraft repairs on Dnepr Airfield.


Geran strikes 7km north of Slavayansk in the Mayatsky forestry. The targets were Ukrainian MLRS systems. From the looks at the satellite imagery, the MLRS ammunition exploded on impact.


Ukrainian stronghold in Toretsk taken out by a MSTA-B of the 238th using a Krasnopol.


Towards the Konstantinovka direction, a Ukrainian UAV control point was taken out by a 122mm she'll from a Russian D-30 howitzer of the 4th Brigade.


Ukrainian D-30 howitzer gets taken out by a Lancet of the 238tj in Pleshcheevka.


Two Ukrainian vehicles destroyed by Russian Special Forces in Bohatyr.


Baba Yaga is shot down by sniper fire from the 22nd SPN.


FABs arrive in Bohatyr.


Another new Russian tactic. Drones of the 14th SPN drop spikes on the road. A victim vehicle passes through, gets immobilized and gets hit by FPV drones.


FAB-3000 arrives on a Ukrainian PVD in Poddubnoye.


Ukrainian field ammo depot gets destroyed by drones at Otradnoe. Closure rate suggests Molniya drones were used. 14th SPN.


M777, Gvozdika, D-20 and CAESAR targeted by FPV drones.


Lancet takes out a Ukrainian AFV in Novopavlivka.


Lancet takes out Krab in the Kharkhiv region.


Russians capture Dneproenergia, Kalinove, and Valentinovka.