Ukraine Uses High-Altitude Balloons To Extend Suicide Drone Strike Range

Ukraine Uses High-Altitude Balloons To Extend Suicide Drone Strike Range Ukrainian forces have borrowed a page from China's hypersonic glide-weapon testing and applied it to the Eastern European theater, using one-way attack drones against Russia. Instead of launching the Hornet strike drone from a ground-based catapult, Ukrainian operators tethered it to a high-altitude balloon, extending its range.  Defense news website Defense Blog reports: The test, details of which circu...

By Tyler Durden