Less than two weeks after Ukraine officials called on drone-owning citizens to volunteer their craft for use defending the country from invading Russian forces, some of those non-military craft have now been reportedly weaponized to drop Molotov cocktails on targets below.
The fruit of innovation, team work, and a Soviet-era repair tradition known as “snotting things together” any way that works, the incendiary aerial delivery device was featured in photos in the New York Post, which failed to catch the clear markings on the UAV it says was developed by Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces. In fact, the Ukraine craft in the images is a DJI Inspire cinematic drone tricked out with a fastening to hold gas-filled beer bottles for dropping, one would suspect, on Russian army targets.
The repurposing of the drone involves the collaboration of Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces – which has been training volunteers to the resistance against how to make…
