Radio technology specialist, military engineer and engineer Sergey «Flash» Bezkrestnov reported on the unusual use of the Russian Molniya UAV, which was «picking up» an FPV drone.
Radio technology specialist, military engineer and engineer Sergey «Flash» Bezkrestnov reported on the unusual use of the Russian Molniya UAV, which was «picking up» an FPV drone.
«Attention! The enemy has begun using the Molniya UAV as an FPV carrier.»
«I think in this case we are not talking about a full-fledged repeater uterus, because the Molniya is disposable and no one will put a repeater on board it,» the expert wrote in his Telegram.
He added that he would call this project «Bla Bla Drone» (by analogy with the name of the online platform for finding car companions BlaBlaCar). According to Flash, the «Lightning» flies to attack the target and brings its «companion» to the rear of the Defense Forces, where it will be controlled separately.
Reports of the Russians using small plywood UAVs called Molniya appeared last fall. At first, they were used mostly as decoys for Ukrainian air defense, but later they were equipped with a warhead and began to be used for strikes on Kharkiv.
According to experts, the threat posed by Molniya lies in the fact that its developers have found a balance between cheapness and efficiency.
«The danger lies in the systematic and widespread use. This is what makes a weapon for the front decisive and noticeable in its effect. „Lightning“ is a cheap, simple FPV wing capable of carrying a large weight of the warhead,» Paolo Lumiere, a military blogger and developer of automated fighter training systems, told the BBC.
Recall that in the spring of 2025, the Ukrainian military found and for some time used an exploit for Russian «Molniya» drones, which allowed them to detect and destroy the pilots who were flying them. To do this, Ukrainian interceptor drones were equipped with a special device that received the necessary data upon approach.
