The Daily Populous Tuesday December 31st, 2024 evening edition
Authored by pravda.com.ua and submitted by strimholov

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has announced that its military have destroyed an aerial target using a Magura V5 maritime drone for the first time in the world.

Details: It is reported that on 31 December, soldiers from DIU’s special unit Group 13, for the first time in history, hit an air target using a Magura V5 naval strike drone equipped with missile weapons.

The intelligence service reported that a Russian Mi-8 helicopter had been destroyed by R-73 SeeDragon missiles during a battle in the Black Sea near Cape Tarkhankut in temporarily occupied Crimea.

Another similar Russian helicopter was hit and managed to reach its home airfield.

Updated: A radio interception from a Mi-8 helicopter, which managed to return to base despite being hit, has been made public as well.

Read more: Target and eliminate: How Ukraine's Magura drones devastate Russian ships

On the evening of 30 December and on the night of 30-31 December, explosions rang out in Sevastopol in temporarily occupied Crimea, and the Russians claimed an attack by UAVs and uncrewed surface vessels.

In May 2024, it was reported that an Ukrainian Magura V5 uncrewed surface vessel was equipped with R-73 air-to-air missiles.

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plate42 on December 31st, 2024 at 09:39 UTC »

Imagine the faces of russians who thought they came to shoot at drones in the safety of their helicopter to only see how drone launched missiles at them.

Dimmo17 on December 31st, 2024 at 09:27 UTC »

Between this, anti-trench thermite drones, shotgun equipped anti-drone UAVs and fibre optic anti-EW drones the drone wars really heating up.

Spare_Philosopher893 on December 31st, 2024 at 09:22 UTC »

Imagine being in a war with a country with no navy and your navy still loses.