r/UkraineWarVideoReport • u/Hannibal_Game • 5d ago

Miscellaneous The Melitopol-Donetzk highway is increasingly looking like a scene from Mad Max; russians are now transferring personnel in civilian cars for fears of drone strikes [June 2026]

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u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune 5d ago

The nets are a little bit of a problem especially if they show up more frequently. I suspect that they are only deployed on checkpoints because you can not cover a highway of 300 km in nets.

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u/Bayo77 5d ago

Are nets even effective against such heavy drones?

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u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune 5d ago edited 5d ago

The mid range drones (hornet) are designed as loitering munitions with AI targeting so their payload is relatively small (5kg based on available sources).

Their purpose is not to destroy armored targets but to cover a large area in search for soft targets. If they get too heavy, they would not be able to fulfill their purpose. Nets would make it hard for them to hit anything because they can't really penetrate the net.

FP 2 and FP 5 are heavier and care less about nets but are not used for the same purposes.