Night Attack on Ukraine: Eight drones have shot down eight drones - Air Force (Photo)

According to the command, Ukrainian fighters managed to destroy the rare "Merlin-BR", which Russia first introduced in 2021. UAVs are intelligence in automatic and semi -automatic modes. On the night of May 23, the Armed Forces of Ukraine "landed" eight drones of Russian invaders: six "Shahmed" and two UAV-reconnaissance. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces.

"On the night of May 23, 2023, six enemy percussion UAVs Shahd-136/131 and two reconnaissance UAVs" Merlin-VR "were destroyed in different directions,-said in the publication. in the Nikolaev area. It is a drone of a shock type, created in Iran for the task of fire shocks at distances up to 2000 km. Dron-Kamikadze strikes the target due to self-destruction and has a loud sound. Also, this UAV modification is inherent Russian production, first presented in September 2021.

The Russians did not report the tests, mass production or adoption The resistance of "Alexander Kovalenko, Iranian drones used by Russia, turned out to be futile against the modern echelorated air defense system that was created in Ukraine. On May 22, the media spoke about the air defense system, which can knock down 10 drones with one blow. American Thor uses powerful microwave pulses to disable drones.