RUSSIA has introduced a new way to detect Ukraine’s kamikaze drones on the frontlines – wolves.
Two tamed beasts were sent to serve alongside Vladimir Putin‘s troops to detect the sound of approaching drones.
Two wolves have been deployed to the Russian frontlines to detect oncoming dronesEast2West
East2WestWolf tamer Aleksander Konchakov raised the orphaned pups and trained them for war[/caption]
Ukraine has successfully use drone warfare to repel Russian attacks
The two female wolves were rescued from Khakassia, a region in Siberia and raised by wolf-tamer Aleksandr Konchakov.
Konchakov also cross-breeds wolves with Russian Laika hunting dogs to be used in the war.
The wolf-tamer visited the war zone before dispatching the apex predators.
One of the wolves sent to fight, Vysota, was filmed being fed ice cream.
Konchakov said: “The puppies were simply brought to me by hunters without a mother.
“They [soldiers] asked [to move them to the war].
“They asked, so I gave.”
The wolf-tamer added that the wolves had “excellent intuition” and were “smart”.
Russian fighters claim that the beasts have a good sense of smell, are sociable and active, and can warn of danger in advance.
SHOT media reported: “The predators can hear the approach of drones and warn of danger in advance.
“They will help Russian soldiers carry out combat missions in the [war] zone.”
General Director of the Great Moscow State Circus, Edgard Zapashny, said: “I hope that these two female wolves, who will now be with our fighters, will not be harmed and that the men will surround them with care and ensure their safety.
“In turn, the animals will save the lives of our soldiers.”
If the experiment is a success, more wolves will be sent to the frontlines.
The unusual method to detect oncoming drones comes as Ukraine has utilised the drones to fight back against Russia.
Ukraine has become increasingly reliant on first-person-view (FPV) drones — nimble, target-seeking, kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Dramatic footage recently released by Kyiv’s military shows the moment Ukrainian drones take out a column of Russian tanks.
Filmed near Pokrovsky, in the east of Ukraine, the footage shows a large-scale assault on Vladimir Putin’s invading troops as the bloody war rages on.
The video, shared by Ukraine on various online platforms including X and Telegram, shows smoke billowing from the destroyed Russian tanks after the devastating aerial attack.
The caption reads: “In the Pokrovsky direction, the Russians are attempting assaults with entire columns of equipment.
“Titans of the 21st OBSP OPBr meet them with FPV drones.
“A separate battalion of special forces, together with the 46th OAeMBr and the 59th OMPBr, congratulate Ukraine on the Day of Tank Troops by reducing the number of tanks of the Russian Federation.”
Since early 2023, the cheap, explosive, flying machines have turned into one of Kyiv’s biggest success stories on the battlefield, forcing Moscow’s forces to catch up.
FPV drones are “our sword, our strike force” against Russia’s advance, special ops warrior “Arsenal”, the commander of Kyiv’s attack drone operations, told The Sun.
With the 600-mile front frozen in hellish trench warfare, Arsenal said the conflict is moving into a “technological war” and developing attack drones is key to this.
The quadcopters cost around £300, are largely made from off-the-shelf pieces of kit and are now often assembled into precision weapons by civilians in their homes.
Arsenal revealed that the killer drones now successfully blitz Putin’s targets in three out of five operations.
He said: “FPV drones are extremely important in this war. Absolutely every drone, even the ones that fall under the influence of Russian electronic jamming, save lives.
“If Mavic (surveillance) drones are our eyes – for the adjustment of artillery fire, withdrawal of groups to positions, reconnaissance – then FPV drones are our sword, our strike force.”
Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
After more than 900 days of war, Russia and Ukraine show no sign of letting up in the fight or moving closer to the negotiating table.
Recently, Ukraine began a large scale push into Russian territory.
It was the first-ever invasion on Russian soil since World War Two.
Russians have been scrambling to defend Kyiv’s audacious move, which sparked a “counter-terror” operation in regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk.
Putin’s animal weapons
IT’S not the first time the Kremlin has deployed animals as weapons.
Whale Hvladimir was accused of being a Russian spy. The white beluga whale was first used as a secret spy for paranoid Putin in 2019, when the whale was filmed wearing a tight fitting camera harness.
Experts say that the Russian military is known to use and train whales for military purposes.
Sadly, Hvladimir was found shot dead after the animal “defected” from Russia after he was believed to have escaped his enclosure and escaped Kremlin control.
Dolphins have also been used to attack Ukrainian divers, after satellite pictures revealed the unusual tactic.
Birdseye images of the strategic port showed it littered with makeshift barriers as well as a bunch of marine mammal pens.
According to the Ministry of Defence, the enclosures housed “spy dolphins”.
The highly-trained underwater assets are part of a military spy program that stems back to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
But the mammals’ development have grown significantly since and played key roles in sabotage when Russia occupied the peninsula in 2014.
In the 1970s, Ukraine’s bottlenose dolphins were trained to carry out marine missions.
They were allegedly capable of planting bombs on ships and attacking divers with guns strapped to their heads.
The wolves were chosen for their intuitionEast2West
ReutersSmaller FPV drones loaded up with explosives[/caption]
ReutersThe modified quadcopter is launched into the sky[/caption]