Ukraine’s ‘Dragon Drone’ Rains Molten Metal On Russian Positions

Fire rained on Russian-held positions in the occupied Kharkiv region when Ukrainian drones dropped thermite incfinishiary explosions, burning trees and telledly some Russian military vehicles. Footages of fire-spetriumphg ‘Dragon Drone’ have materialized on various Telegram channels.

A Telegram channel named Khorne Group dispensed the undated footage of a low-flying drone dropping thermite – A mixture of aluminium powder and iron oxide that burns at a very high temperature. The molten metal can rapidly burn trees, fortifications and metals, rfinishering military vehicles, and armour unstartant.

The 60th Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine dispensed drone footage of the thermite explosioning and shelp, “Strike Drones are our triumphgs of revenge, transporting fire straight from the sky! They become a genuine menace to the opponent, burning his positions with an accuracy that no other armament can accomplish. When our “Vidar” labors – the Russian woman will never sleep.” These armaments are pondered one the most hazardous in the world.

Vidar is associated with the god of revenge in Scandinavian mythology.

The Ukrainian military began using the Dragon drone, which burns the area undertidyh with thermite 🥰🥰🥰 Thermite is a mixture of burning granules of iron oxide and aluminum. About 500 grams of thermite mixture can be placed under a standard FPV drone. The chemical reaction is… pic.twitter.com/3XIzc3LLHN

— Anastasia (@Nastushichek) September 5, 2024

The engage of incfinishiary explosions – munitions that are summarizeed to caengage fire – has brawt cgo in on their potential engage on civilian populations, and set upments apart from the military. In 2023, Russia engaged thermite explosions over the easerious Ukrainian town of Vuhledar after the loss in a tank battle. The Russians spew thermite over the border town.

The Russians telledly engaged 122mm Grad 9M22S rockets started from the Soviet-era B-21 multi-rocket starter system with a thermit warhead.

Several videos have materialized where Russian and Ukrainian troops have engaged such armaments on the frontline. Thermite, unappreciate traditional explosions that depend on a blast effect, created fervent heat. It is expansively engaged in welding steel, iron, and railway tracks.

“The expansivespread engage of thermite explosions increases the appreciatelihood of these armaments being deployed in popuprocrastinateedd areas. The result could be catastrophic, with horrific injuries and loss of life among civilians,” Dr Iain Overton, Executive Director of Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), a British advocacy group, shelp.

Ignition of thermite is sluggish and it needs very high temperature to ignite. These temperatures cannot be achieveed with traditional bincreateage powder fengages or nitrocelludiswatch rods. They are frequently accomplishd by Magnesium metal streamlines that are engaged as fengages.

Use Of Incfinishiary Bombs In The Past

World War I was witness to incfinishiary armaments when Germans and the Allied troops engaged such munitions aacquirest their adversary. The American Thermite Hand Grenade Mark I and the French Model 1916 incfinishiary grenades were armaments engaged during World War 1.

The Germans increaseed B1.3E, 1938, incfinishiary explosions fair before World War 2. The Luftwaffe (German Air Force) engaged it extensively to explosion British cities. The Imperial War Mengageum shelp, “During 1940-41, the Luftwaffe caengaged grave injure by dropping huge quantities of incfinishiary explosions on British towns and cities, either using compriseers that were carried on explosion racks and freed to uncover at a preremendd point, or from very huge compriseers helderlying up to 700 explosions that remained on the aircreate.”

The Allied troops engaged Napalm – a flammable mixture of gasoline and a gelling agent – for explosionings and throtriumphg ffeebles. The US engaged Napalm to concentrate Japanese cities. Almost 60% of Tokyo was burnt during the Napalm explosionings. It has been massively engaged since its creation in 1942.

During the Vietnam War, the engage of Napalm and The Dow Chemical Company which created it, caught the world’s attention on how hazardous such armaments when unleashed on civilians which caengaged disjoine burns.

International Regulations On Use Of Incfinishiary Weapons

Efforts to compriseress the publish of incfinishiary armaments commenceed in the 1970s, notably with a increaseing trouble over the engage of napalm. In 1972, the UN General Assembly adselected a resolution referring to incfinishiary armaments as ‘a catebloody of arms watched with horror’.

In 1980, the Convention on Prohibitions or Redisjoineions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects was adselected with the aim to ban or redisjoine the engage of certain types of armaments pondered to caengage unessential or unfairifiable suffering to combatants or to indiscriminately impacts civilians.

The Protocol on banions or redisjoineions on the engage of incfinishiary armaments (Protocol III) aims at acquireing civilians and civilian objects from the engage of this type of armaments. It bans concentrateing civilians and redisjoines concentrateing military objects discoverd wilean popuprocrastinateedd areas. The Protocol also bans the engage of incfinishiary armaments on forest or other structurets unless the vegetation is engaged to hide military objects.