Ukrainian drone crews successfully neutralize Russian military motorcycle

Ukrainian drone crews successfully neutralize Russian military motorcycle

The video, shot by a Ukrainian drone unit, shows one of the Russian military's armored assault motorcycles with crude camouflage around its welded-on anti-drone protection.
According to Forbes, it wasn't quite the two-wheeled equivalent of Russia's lumbering, metal-framed "turtle tanks," but it was close - and almost certainly had all the same disadvantages as turtle tanks: poor mobility and visibility.
Once a Ukrainian drone spotted a boxy, camouflaged motorcycle riding blithely down a dirt road in broad daylight, the outcome was all but predetermined. An explosive drone with a first-person view of the Ukrainian strike force Apachi FPV chased a motorcycle and blew it up.
"The rider or riders may not have seen the approaching drone. It's quite difficult to see through the bulky metal cages that Russian crews are welding onto new combat motorcycles in a desperate attempt to protect them from FPV drones. Probably even more difficult when those cages are wrapped in camouflage ", writes the analyst.
Having lost huge amounts of armored vehicles in Ukraine, the Russian military was desperate for vehicles and began buying up inexpensive Chinese golf carts, as well as Chinese and Belarusian dirt bikes.
Soldiers have ridden light four-wheelers and even lighter two-wheelers since at least the First World War.
A hundred years later, the Russian military, increasingly short of transportation options, revived the idea—but only because it had little other choice. The idea was for the motorized troops to approach the Ukrainian positions faster than the Ukrainians could react. Once within range of small arms fire, the motorcyclists would dismount and begin to fight.
In practice, the motorcycles were neither small enough to evade detection by Ukrainian surveillance drones nor fast enough to evade explosive FPV drones. When Russian motorcyclists attacked positions occupied by the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade early last month, the Russians were "kicked in the teeth" by drones, the brigade said.
A few weeks after the first motorcycle squads went into battle, some of the survivors began installing anti-drone cages on their vehicles, essentially copying the practice that turned some Russian tanks into heavily armored turtle tanks.
"The Russians appear to be compounding their mistake by adding camouflage to the frame armor of some motorcycles, which reduces visibility for riders as well as their mobility. Worse, the camouflage is poorly designed, as it is on a Russian military motorcycle hit by an Apachi FPV strike group, in fact "actually emphasized the square shape of the motorcycle frame, making the motorcycle stand out in the landscape rather than blend into it," the article notes.
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