{"id":1277688,"date":"2025-08-08T15:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-number-of-drones-in-the-defense-forces-has-increased-significantly-how-the-military-uses-them-on-the-front\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:03:48","slug":"the-number-of-drones-in-the-defense-forces-has-increased-significantly-how-the-military-uses-them-on-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-number-of-drones-in-the-defense-forces-has-increased-significantly-how-the-military-uses-them-on-the-front\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of drones in the Defense Forces has increased significantly: how the military uses them on the front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Guard spokesman Ruslan Muzychuk said that since the beginning of 2025, the number of drones of various types in the Defense Forces has doubled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He spoke about this on the air of the telethon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis includes both FPV drones and Mavic and drones with combat payloads. We have significantly strengthened this component,\u201d the spokesperson explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, the enemy is also increasing the number of UAVs, in particular, fiber-optic drones are being massively recorded in the Kharkiv region, as well as in the Donetsk region &#8211; near Chasovy Yar, in the Torets and Pokrov directions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, Muzychuk assured that the number of FPV drones at the front has doubled, and in some places tripled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDrones are now used not so much to destroy armored vehicles or other equipment, but to create so-called kill zones \u2014 areas where the enemy cannot advance to our positions or control points to gain a foothold or accumulate forces,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zsu-v-lypni-urazyly-ponad-23-tysiach-rosiyskykh-tsiley-za-dopomohoiu-droniv\/\">in July, drones hit more than 23 thousand Russian targets<\/a> . The lion&#8217;s share of hits was carried out using FPV drones and night bombers.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Guard spokesman Ruslan Muzychuk said that since the beginning of 2025, the number of drones of various types in the Defense Forces has doubled. He spoke about this on the air of the telethon. \u201cThis includes both FPV drones and Mavic and drones with combat payloads. We have significantly strengthened this component,\u201d the spokesperson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1276465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1277688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}