A new video circulating online purports to show another way consumer drones are being repurposed to aid Ukraine’s defense against Russian troops – this one by dropping a grenade on a target with remarkable accuracy.

Ever since Ukraine’s Defense Ministry appealed to private pilots of consumer drones to put those craft to use in the nation’s defense effort against Russian invaders, accounts of small UAVs being flown for surveillance and emergency transport missions have multiplied. There have even been reports of larger store-bought craft being fitted with delivery systems to drop Molotov cocktails from on high. Most recently, however, Twitter user @CalibreObscura posted a short video purporting to show Ukraine citizens using a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DJI drone dropping a grenade on a target 100 meters below.

Weaponization of consumer UAVs isn’t new, of course. The rigging of small drones to attack enemies has been adopted by Mexican drug…

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Source: dronedj.com