Footage of the testing of the Ukrainian jet drone "Palyanytsya". The drone "Palyanytsya" can be called a rocket drone, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reported on its testing. According to him, the missile program of Ukraine includes a cluster called "Palyanytsya". Within its framework, three products are being developed, one of them is the drone "Palyanytsya". This rocket drone is much faster than Ukrainian long-range drones, it is already in use, he also noted. Technical data on the drone is not reported, the drone is equipped with a simple turbojet engine
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An episode of testing of a new FPV drone armed with the Soviet RPG-18 Mukha grenade launcher has been published in Ukraine. Technical details and who is testing the drone are not reported. Judging by the characteristics of the RPG-18, the drone will be able to hit targets at a distance of up to 200 meters. Taking into account the weight of the grenade launcher, the flight time of such a drone will be about 10 minutes. For aimed shooting, the drone will have to fly close to the target. The RPG-18 can penetrate armor up to 300 mm thick.
Data on the supply of weapons and "related property" to Ukraine from the United States. US spending on military aid to Ukraine amounted to about $55 billion. Data is shown from February 2022 to September 2024. The list of military property is quite impressive, in the first part of the video the information is in Russian, in the second part in English. Judging by the data, US spending on the purchase of military property for Ukraine and in other countries is included. On March 2, 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that 19 countries supply weapons to Kyiv, 10 countries provide macro-financial assistance, 22 countries provide humanitarian aid.
The Ukrainian army has published footage of an agricultural drone of an unknown model delivering a BAD.2 robot dog. Earlier, the Ukrainian army received 30 BAD.2 robot dogs produced by the British company Brit Alliance. The BAD.2 robot dogs are used by the 28th Brigade for cargo delivery and reconnaissance. The BAD.2 military robots are equipped with heat-resistant camouflage from the German company Concamo, which makes them less noticeable to thermal imagers. BAD.2 robots reach speeds of up to 15 kilometers per hour, operate within a radius of 3.5 kilometers from the operator, and have a working time of up to five hours. The cost of BAD.2 robot dogs, depending on the modification, ranges from 4 to 8 thousand euros.
Rare footage of the training operation of the 35-mm Oerlikon automatic cannon, Skynex air defense system, has been published in Ukraine. The Skynex air defense system was developed by the German arms company Rheinmetall in 2021. The Oerlikon Revolver Gun Mk3 combat module fires at targets with AHEAD programmable ammunition. The cost of one AHEAD projectile is about 4,000 euros. The Skynex anti-aircraft system is equipped with an X-band radar. The firing range of the Oerlikon cannon is about 4,500 meters, it can hit targets at altitudes of up to 3,500 meters. The cost of the Skynex air defense system is about $ 91 million for 4 units, Ukraine received two of them, now there is one left.
The 47th separate mechanized brigade "Magura" of the Ukrainian army demonstrated modified American M1A1 SA Abrams tanks with new protection. On the areas of the tank not covered by the American dynamic protection ARAT, additional blocks of the Soviet dynamic protection "Contact-1" were installed. Also on the roof of the M1A1 Abrams tank, protection from drones was installed, in the form of a folding "barbecue", made in the form of a "shell", produced by the Ukrainian company Metinvest.