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THIS is the dramatic moment Ukraine’s ‘Queen Hornet’ drone equipped with a killer machine gun is unleashed.
Ukraine’s military have been developing the Mad Max-style weapon for months with footage showing it being deployed on the battlefield for the first time.
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X/wilendhornetsThe aerial weapon, designed by the Wild Hornet squadron, has a Kalashnikov machine gun strapped to its front and is capable of firing a barrage of bullets at once.
Footage from the experienced squad of troops shows the drone soaring over a sprawling warzone as the automatic gun takes aim at Russian targets.
Despite the impressive weapon successfully blasting its targets, the Wild Hornets say it is still being tested.
The clip was shared to their official X account with a caption saying: “Our military continues to develop the Hornet Queen equipped with automatic weapons.
“This time, the first combat deployment was carried out – targeting a position with Russian forces.
“This test indicated the direction in which this project should move forward.”
The squad are known for creating combat FPV drones to be used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces battling against Putin’s men.
The group claim to have taken down more than 100 of Putin’s unmanned aerials vehicles (UAVs) in drone to drone combat.
Last week, incredible footage captured the moment the Wild Hornet’s drones got up close behind the flying Russians before exploding them in mid-air.
The group was started by three men after they realised drone technology had changed the course of the war.
One founder, Yuriy, told The Sun earlier this year their group provides drones to dozens of units.
In the spring of 2023, Yuriy said: “We managed to produce a batch of ten drones, which we sent to the military, and they destroyed two Russian tanks with them.
“And then we realised that this technology would change the course of the war. One drone worth £300 could disable a tank and another could completely destroy it.
“That’s how the story of the Wild Hornets began.”
Bombs are rigged to the drones as they are built in the homes of brave Ukrainians.
At the front, the drones are used as guided missiles and micro-bombers or aerial reconnaissance UAVs and frontline units are desperate to get their hands on them.
It comes mere weeks after Ukraine launched a surprise attack on August 6 from the Sumy province – near the border with Russia.
They now claim to control over 500 square miles of Putin’s territory in Russia’s worst defeat on home soil since World War Two.
Moscow has previously said the incursion renders any peace talks between the countries impossible, marking a U-turn in Mad Vlad’s policy.
Ukraine’s President Zelensky said the blitz was part of a master plan to help end the war.
It served a humiliating blow to Putin’s efforts – as the so-called “special operation” he said would last just weeks in early 2022 approaches the three-year mark.
Footage has revealed the true extent of Ukraine’s success in Kursk with hordes of Russian soldiers surrendering and being taken as prisoners of war.
Raging Putin hit back with indiscriminate air attacks on Ukrainian cities as he licks his wounds from the crushing defeat.
Just days ago two Russian ballistic missiles were launched at a military academy and hospital inside Ukraine.
Some 271 people were injured in what has been described as one of the deadliest attacks since the start of the war.
Is Putin's 'peace talks' offer sincere?
By Alan Mendoza, Founder and the Executive Director of the Henry Jackson Society
VLADIMIR Putin is not known for making offers out of the goodness of his heart.
So his sudden interest in peace talks to end the Ukraine War must be on account of something other than a genuine desire to end the bloodshed he initiated in 2022 by invading Ukraine.
The reason is likely obvious: it has finally dawned on Putin that a war that was supposed to be over in days has no easy end.
Ukraine’s surprise August invasion of Russia’s Kursk province will have played a factor in his thinking.
Putin has long posed as the champion of Russian security. Yet he has been unable to reverse a humiliating seizure of Russian land.
With the prospect of Ukraine soon being able to use long-range missiles to target Russian missile and air bases, the immediate future looks challenging for Putin.
His raising of peace talks are an acknowledgement that Ukrainian successes are unnerving him.
But before we get too excited, Putin has not revealed any of the terms he is offering.
And if they involve punishing Ukraine by forcing it to give up territory, then they will be unacceptable.
So the onus must now be on Putin outlining what he is proposing, without allowing him to stall for time, or to disrupt Ukraine’s advances.
It is military pressure on Putin that has got us to this point.
It will need to continue for us to be certain that he is really considering ending this terrible war of his own making.
Reuters
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