Russian troops are again using SVBIEDs in Ukraine by packing armored vehicles with large amounts of high explosive material and sending the vehicles on one-way trips toward Ukrainian lines. This time, however, the Russians decided to park a remote observation drone on the front of the MT-LB to use as a navigation camera.

The VBIED ended up hitting a burned anti tank mine and erupting into a massive fireball. It's not clear if the point of the operation was to clear out landmines or something else. It's also not clear why they didn't just fly the drone over the vehicle to navigate it and not lose the aerial asset when the detonation occurs.

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