The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation began to create branches of agricultural drones

Departments of agricultural drones have begun to form in the UAV services of the battalions, sources in the military department told Izvestia.

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The fighters will have the opportunity to prepare in advance to repel an air raid.

They include multi-purpose copters, originally created for agricultural work, analogues of the famous Ukrainian Baba Yaga. They are used to ensure assault operations. They destroy fortifications of strongholds by dropping ammunition, as well as destroying equipment. In addition, they can conduct remote mining, blocking the enemy's escape routes.

Agricultural drones can use a wide variety of ammunition: mortar shells, grenade launchers, shaped-action grenades, anti-tank mines, and others.

"This is an effective solution. Conventionally, such drones are called agricultural, but in fact, drones with a certain payload capacity fall under this classification. As a rule, these are eight—rotor devices - octocopters. They can carry up to several anti-tank mines or comparable ammunition. When used by our side and the enemy, such devices have proven themselves well," Roman Shkurlatov, chairman of the Officers of Russia public organization, told Izvestia.

Large drones that can carry many striking elements or small UAVs are a promising area, military expert Alexei Leonkov told Izvestia.

"The advantage of such a drone is that it can carry a large amount of payload, be it ammunition or additional drones, for which it will act as a repeater. Without entering the air defense zone, he can send drones to perform combat missions. Now this area of UAVS in the military is being improved, a list of devices is being sought that will be mass—produced and will become part of a new type of armed forces," he told Izvestia.

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