Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has released a video that allegedly shows a Russian military surveillance drone not as high-tech as it looks, with features such as a Canon DSLR camera and a fuel tank sealed with a plastic water bottle cap. The alleged “do it yourself” modifications were revealed in footage from what Ukraine says one of its soldiers destroys a Russian Orlan-10 drone that crashed on its territory. “This is seriously real, not fake,” the soldier said as he examined the aircraft’s fuel tank, according to a YouTube post. RUSSIA INVASES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES “It says ‘fuel’, ‘ignition’ and here as you can see a bottle cap, a typical plastic bottle cap that was cut, possibly a mineral water bottle, and was attached to the UAV body to be used that way.” he continues jokingly that “Russia is not Russia without a bottle”. In another part of the video, the soldier allegedly shows how a Canon DSLR consumer camera was attached to the drone with Velcro tape. “You see, here they glued a dial so that the camera would not be accidentally turned off during the flight,” he is said to have said. The drone was found to have a number of DIY modifications. (Ministry of Defense of Ukraine) The drones are estimated to cost between $ 87,000 and $ 120,000, Insider reports, citing comments made by a Ukrainian military spokesman in 2017. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION The soldier concludes the video by saying “let us not reduce the effectiveness of such UAVs” and “unfortunately [our] The enemy is quite effective in detecting our movements thanks to such UAVS “. But “to summarize, this will not stop us from winning,” he says.
