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Ukraine Uses High-Altitude Balloons To Extend Suicide Drone Strike Range
Ukraine Uses High-Altitude Balloons To Extend Suicide Drone Strike Range
Ukrainian forces have borrowed a page from China's hypersonic glide-weapon testing and applied it to the Eastern European theater, using one-way attack drones against Russia.
Instead of launching the Hornet strike drone from a ground-based catapult, Ukrainian operators tethered it to a high-altitude balloon, extending its range.
Defense news website Defense Blog reports:
The test, details of which circulated through Ukrainian military channels, involved a Hornet manufactured by Perennial Autonomy being dropped from a balloon at approximately 8 kilometers altitude after the aerostat...
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