"Blow up the train!" On July 17, 2025, local time, the Russian "Rubicon" drone group publicly revealed that, over four consecutive days, they used FPV suicide drones to guard and continuously attack and bomb Ukrainian front-line trains, especially the elite train heads and carriages transporting weapons and ammunition. From July 10 to 13, the Russian "Rubicon" drone group used FPV suicide drones to carry out continuous attacks on the railway stations in the Dobropillya area under Ukrainian military control in Donetsk Oblast, destroying several valuable train heads and carriages. The Russians used FPV suicide drones to wait for Ukrainian trains to arrive at the front-line railway stations. As soon as the train stopped moving, the Russian FPV suicide drones would immediately crash into it. Ukrainian train heads are harder to obtain than pick-ups; losing one means losing one forever.
The Ukrainian trains bombed by the Russian FPV suicide drones were 27 kilometers away from the front line, which means that the Russian FPV suicide drones achieved remote strike capabilities through relay communication. It is estimated that the Russian FPV suicide drones are equipped with solar panels. They first fly to high points in the areas controlled by the Ukrainian army, where they land as signal relays, and then the Russians fly multiple FPV suicide drones to hide and be ready to launch attacks on Ukrainian military targets at any time.
In the footage, the destroyed train head, a diesel locomotive, is the ChME3-3426 type train, belonging to the Donetsk Railway Administration, the Slavyansk Locomotive Depot, manufactured by the Czech Moravia-Kolben-Daněk Mechanical Industry Group in 1980, powered by a diesel engine. Using FPV suicide drones to attack trains was first initiated by the Ukrainian army, and now they have suffered retaliation from the Russian FPV suicide drones.
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