A Russian soldier has demonstrated military virtuosity in front of the cameras to demonstrate that the Russian-developed Stupor anti-drone rifle actually works, despite preliminary images that have surfaced on social media.

The moment was captured by military correspondents of Zvezda, Russia’s official military newspaper, showing a soldier “capturing” an alleged enemy drone, landing smoothly on the ground after a Russian soldier aimed a stun gun at it.”

“Er… the device for shooting down unmanned aerial vehicles has shot down up to 20 enemy drones in two weeks of continuous combat,” the Russian military said after its success.

Interestingly, the video, shot by Zvezda, appeared the day after a video of a Russian military officer unsuccessfully trying to shoot down a Ukrainian drone with a Stupor anti-aircraft gun, a Ukrainian military drone that was watching Russians, went viral on social media. . unobstructed positioning, and then launch a grenade at them.

Although Russian state media have claimed since July that this new weapon was used on the battlefield in Ukraine, no video footage of its use by the Russian military appears to have surfaced until recently released by Ukrainian soldiers.

But pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk in August were photographed with several Stupor rifles to demonstrate their successful use against Ukrainian drones.

One of the photos drew widespread ridicule on social media, with netizens commenting that Russia had sent one of its most advanced weapons to soldiers wearing plastic flip-flops.

Features of the Stupor anti-drone rifle developed by the Russians announced by the Russians.

One of the Russian state news agencies, TASS, reported on July 6, citing a source in the “law enforcement agencies,” that “Russian Stupor electromagnetic complexes were successfully used for the first time during a special operation in Ukraine against Ukrainian drones.”

“By aiming at an object and simply pressing a button, Stupor blocks the control signal between the operator and the drone, after which the Ukrainian drone is neutralized and forced to land in the right place,” the quoted source added, adding that the weapon was used in the West of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic .

Stun is supposed to emit electromagnetic pulses and was primarily designed to suppress the drone’s control channel, causing it to lose contact with the operator and crash.

The Russians claim that the Stupor rifles have a range of up to 2 km and can also affect the drones’ navigation and transmission programs, as well as their photo and video cameras.

Russia also announced last week that it had created the “world’s first remote-controlled anti-sniper system,” following the development of a laser that can destroy enemy drones “in seconds” announced in May.

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