#FPV Drone
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![What It Feels Like When a Russian FPV Drone Attacks a Reporter—and That Reporter Is You]( "What It Feels Like When a Russian FPV Drone Attacks a Reporter—and That Reporter Is You")
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![Photo of Philip Malzahn]( "Photo of Philip Malzahn")
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Every day, thousands of Russian First-Person-View (FPV) Drones fly over the sky in Ukraine. Those piloting them are looking for equipment, positions, soldiers, volunteers, journalists, and even civilians. This is the story of what it feels like to survive the kind of attack that many people do not, and what it means to work on Ukraine's frontline in the age of the flying killer robot.![Rheinmetall HERO drones stand on display at the 2024 ILA Berlin Air Show on June 05, 2024, in Schoenefeld, Germany. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Rheinmetall HERO drones stand on display at the 2024 ILA Berlin Air Show on June 05, 2024, in Schoenefeld, Germany. (Source: Getty Images)")
![A Belarus serviceman carries a UAV during the “Zapad-2025” joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground near the town of Borisov, east of Minsk, on September 15, 2025. (Source: Getty Images)]( "A Belarus serviceman carries a UAV during the “Zapad-2025” joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground near the town of Borisov, east of Minsk, on September 15, 2025. (Source: Getty Images)")
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Russia’s drone war is undergoing a major shift as Moscow begins moving away from disposable UAVs and toward a new generation of reusable strike and interceptor drones. But in reality, Russia is playing catch-up. Ukraine was the first to pivot toward heavy, reusable attack drones earlier in the war—a shift that forced Moscow to adapt.![Illustrative image. A Russian TOS-1A “Solntsepyok,” heavy thermobaric rocket system in Ukraine. (Source: Serhii Bratchuk/Facebook)]( "Illustrative image. A Russian TOS-1A “Solntsepyok,” heavy thermobaric rocket system in Ukraine. (Source: Serhii Bratchuk/Facebook)")
![A satellite image of the territory of the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex made on November 25. It shows two Russian planes destroyed after the strike. (Source: Dnipro Osint/X)]( "A satellite image of the territory of the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex made on November 25. It shows two Russian planes destroyed after the strike. (Source: Dnipro Osint/X)")
![Illustrative image. A group of Ukrainian military mechanics are trained to repair German artillery howitzers “PzH 2000” in the Lithuanian Artillery battalion of General Romuald Giedraitis in Rukla, Lithuania, on December 19, 2022. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Illustrative image. A group of Ukrainian military mechanics are trained to repair German artillery howitzers “PzH 2000” in the Lithuanian Artillery battalion of General Romuald Giedraitis in Rukla, Lithuania, on December 19, 2022. (Source: Getty Images)")
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