{"id":1295538,"date":"2025-09-22T14:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/battery-instead-of-warhead-russians-converted-molniya-into-a-drone-mother\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:38:37","slug":"battery-instead-of-warhead-russians-converted-molniya-into-a-drone-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/battery-instead-of-warhead-russians-converted-molniya-into-a-drone-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery instead of warhead: Russians converted \u201cMolniya\u201d into a drone-mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russians have converted their Molniya UAV into a drone-mothership that can carry FPV drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/serhii_flash\/6285\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">military radio technology specialist Sergey &#8220;Flash&#8221; Beskrestnov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He noted that in the updated version, reinforced batteries are installed in place of the warhead. In addition, the published photos show a stand on which FPV drones are mounted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Flash&#8221; emphasized that Ukrainians and Russians have completely different approaches to drones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have dozens of types of wings for a wide variety of purposes. They have the basic Shahed deep strike and the basic Molniya mass cheap wing. With both of them, they conduct experiments on the purpose, control, and application,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orlan-stav-dronom-matkoiu-zsu-znyshchyly-novu-rozrobku-rosiian\/\">the Russians upgraded their Orlan reconnaissance drones<\/a> so that they could carry FPV drones.<\/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>The Russians have converted their Molniya UAV into a drone-mothership that can carry FPV drones. This was reported by military radio technology specialist Sergey &#8220;Flash&#8221; Beskrestnov. He noted that in the updated version, reinforced batteries are installed in place of the warhead. In addition, the published photos show a stand on which FPV drones are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1280588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76874,76875,76871],"class_list":["post-1295538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295538","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=1295538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}