Ukraine’s Wild Hornets drones offer game-changing impact: report

As has repeatedly been the case in its nearly year and a half defense against Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has filled gaps – and created new opportunities for itself – within the array of commercial drones it has deployed by producing inexpensive yet highly effective UAVs, most recently with the remarkably potent Wild Hornets now being flown.

Though the craft have been in operation for some time, wider awareness of Ukraine’s fleet of Wild Hornets has only begun to grow in recent days as word of the multi-purpose drone slowly spread. That buzz was largely generated by an article published over the weekend by the Kyiv Post, whose headline described the domestically conceived and produced UAV as “Ukraine’s Tiny Armor-Busting, Trench-Clearing Secret Weapon.”

Though Wild Hornets aren’t the first specialized drones Ukraine has created and somehow managed to manufacture amid crippling wartime conditions, they are being hailed as a…