At a secretive factory in Russia’s central grasslands, engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect against a horrific new weapon,

Engineers are creating decoys which will be used to mask attacks using devastating thermobaric warheads, journalists found.

A hi-tech factory has created a new way to attack Ukraine: a small number of highly destructive thermobaric drones surrounded by swarms of decoys. View on euronews

Russia is using decoy drones to confuse Ukrainian defenses, while also introducing thermobaric drones that pose severe risks. The Alabuga plant in Russia is key to drone production. These tactics are saving costs for Russia and creating uncertainty in Ukrainian airspace,

Over the course of October 2024, Russia launched more than 2,000 drones against Ukraine, with Ukrainian intelligence estimating that about half of these drones were decoys or fake targets that Russia used to distract and overwhelm Ukrainian air defences.

The Russian military has been increasing its use of decoy drones to confuse and overwhelm Ukrainian air defense systems, according to aviation market expert Bohdan Dolintse, speaking on the FREEDОМ TV channel.

A high-tech factory in central Russia has created a new, deadly force to attack Ukraine: A small number of highly destructive thermobaric drones surrounded by huge swarms of cheap foam decoys.

Russian air defence units intercepted a series of Ukrainian drones in several Russian regions, officials said, many of them in Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops launched a major incursion in August.

A Russian factory plans to create drones surrounding by decoys that cant be detected by radars or sharpshooters