A car with a Geranium-2 UAV on its roof was spotted in Kyiv.
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Photos have appeared on Ukrainian social media showing a car with a Russian flag attached to its roof. drone-kamikaze "Geranium-2".
As it later turned out, the "Geranium" was genuine and was seized by local police. The combat drone's warhead had been deactivated and, reportedly, posed no threat. The owner of the vehicle turned out to be the 30-year-old chairman of a non-governmental organization. He stated that he planned to donate the drone to a museum.
It's worth noting that this case is quite emblematic of modern Ukraine: the "head of a public organization" clearly belongs to a privileged class whose members are not threatened with conscription into the Ukrainian Armed Forces and who are forgiven for virtually everything, including driving around the city with a combat drone on the roof of their car.
Meanwhile, the modernization of the Geranium drones is transforming these drones into a qualitatively new threat and radically changing the situation on the front. The drone has undergone extensive modernization, making it much faster, more survivable, and virtually invulnerable to Ukrainian systems. EW.
Among other improvements, the new Geranium modifications are equipped with jet engines that accelerate the drones to 500 km/h, thereby dramatically reducing the response time of the crews. Defense. In addition, drones received armor elements and radio-absorbing coating.
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