The heart-stopping second a Ukrainian suicide drone hunts a down Russian tank

Dramatic new video set to the tune featured in “Pulp Fiction” reveals the second a Kyiv kamikaze-style drone stalks a Russian tank as a result of it struggles in ineffective to outrun the unmanned airplane.

Aerial footage shot from the suicide drone’s point-of-view, and released by Ukraine’s Security Service, reveals the armed airplane zeroing in on a Russian tank, acknowledged as T-80BV, racing alongside a desolate road throughout the Kharkiv space.

The remotely operated drone pivots throughout the air and begins pursuing its aim throughout the recording set to the jaunty tune of Dick Dale and The Del Tones’ 1963 hit “Misirlou,” made in model by Quentin Tarantino’s cult primary “Pulp Fiction.”

As the chase heats up, the drone descends to an altitude of solely a few dozen ft above the underside, flying almost immediately above the fleeing tank.

Moments later, the show display screen fills with static and goes black, indicating an apparent strike.

The Security Service acknowledged in a tweet Saturday that its specific brokers “destroyed another tank of the occupiers with a kamikaze drone.”

“The Russians tried to escape but they weren’t very successful. And we will continue to destroy the invaders until complete victory.”

Each T-80BV tank comes with a price tag of roughly $3 million.

Russia has been carefully relying on its stockpile of Soviet-era T-80 and T-72 tanks to wage battle in Ukraine.

Since the start of the invasion, higher than 3,400 enemy tanks have been each destroyed or captured by Kyiv’s forces, in response to the latest information from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. The Post couldn’t independently affirm that decide.

Last month, Oryx, an open-source monitoring group, reported that Russia has presumably misplaced as a lot as half of all its operational tanks since Feb. 2022.

Moscow is believed to nonetheless have 1000’s of outdated tanks in reserve, nonetheless numerous them potential haven’t been maintained appropriately by the years and may now be match for movement throughout the fast future.

Facing necessary shortages, Russia’s navy has resorted to modernizing crumbling 60-year-old T-62 tanks.

Some 800 of the rusted-out armored autos have been taken out of storage and shipped to a restore plant in Siberia to be upgraded and fitted with new gear to make the navy relics battle-ready.