{"id":2786,"date":"2025-08-08T19:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defensetechforukraine.org\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2025-08-08T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:32:15","slug":"precision-landmining-with-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defensetechforukraine.org\/es\/product-development\/precision-landmining-with-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Miner\u00eda terrestre de precisi\u00f3n con drones"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By Roy Gardiner<\/strong>

Ukrainian innovation has combined the use of legacy anti-tank landmines and new heavy drones for deep precision mining of Russian logistical routes.<\/p>\n\n

Exact nighttime drops and new electronic fuzes combine to put tremendous pressure on Russian supply vehicles.<\/p>\n\n

[Russian UAZ \u201cLoaf\u201d Van]<\/p>\n\n

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The Soviets developed a family of remote deployed landmines for scattering by rockets and helicopters.<\/p>\n\n

Devices such as the PTM-3 anti-tank, and POM-2 anti-personnel landmines were needed in considerable numbers to reliably give enough density on roads and attack routes.<\/p>\n\n

Ukraine removes these landmines from their carrier munitions and places them one by one, exactly where each presents maximum risk to Russian vehicles.<\/p>\n\n

Heavy lift multicopters such as the \u201cVampire\u201d hexacopter or \u201cNemesis\u201d quadcopter operate each night using a combination of GPS control and operator guidance.<\/p>\n\n

[Russian map of Ukrainian drone-placed landmines in Krynki]<\/p>\n\n

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Modern Ukrainian electronic fuzes such as the \u201cJonik\u201d magnetic-influence fuze have replaced out-dated and unreliable Soviet fuzes.<\/p>\n\n

Anti-handling devices such as a motion-detecting gyroscope make clearance by Russian EODs each day exceptionally dangerous and lengthy.<\/p>\n\n

Unmanned Forces commander \u201cMadyar\u201d has led this crucial mining campaign to disrupt Russian logistics.<\/p>\n\n

He established the mass production of a new landmine called PTM-Y for this purpose, based on the Russian PTM-3 but with a new \u201cJonik\u201d fuze.<\/p>\n\n

A new shaped-charge anti-tank landmine called PTM-L1 has also been developed for drone placement, inspired by the American M70 remotely scattered submunition.<\/p>\n\n

The \u201cJonik\u201d fuzed PTM-L1 has even been placed on Russian railway lines targeting locomotives.<\/p>\n\n

Legacy pressure-activated anti-tank landmines such as Soviet designed TM-62s can be precision-placed on roads as well.<\/p>\n\n

This even includes old NATO donated landmines such as the Danish M\/47 developed in 1947!<\/p>\n\n

Ukrainian heavy drones also install both pressure and magnetic anti-tank landmines on approach roads and along attack axes during pauses at night in Russian assaults.<\/p>\n\n

Along with Ukrainian FPVs this has relegated armored vehicles to an increasingly distant support role.<\/p>\n\n

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Ukraine has also developed a range of mechanical and electrically-fuzed improvised anti-personnel landmines for dropping by drones.<\/p>\n\n

These are spread on Russian trails and roads, as FPVs have forced Russian supplies to be carried to the front lines by bearers or motorcycles.<\/p>\n\n

[Printed Ukrainian \u201cK2\u201d anti-personnel tripwire landmine]<\/p>\n\n

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For reasons that are unclear, Russia has failed to develop a significant heavy drone fleet of their own.<\/p>\n\n

Thus they are restricted to what large FPVs can carry such as modified POM-2 tripwire anti-personnel landmines, which they scatter on trails and small roads.<\/p>\n\n

[POM-2 canisters with UZRG-M fuzes]<\/p>\n\n

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Recently some fiber-optic FPVs are configured as precision-placed magnetic-influence landmines.<\/p>\n\n

They are landed in tight spots difficult to otherwise reach because of line-of-sight limitations on operator radio control of a heavy drone.<\/p>\n\n

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The distinction between a landmine and precision-guided munition is being blurred by fiber-optic ambush FPVs, which can lie in wait for hours alongside roads for vehicles to pass.<\/p>\n\n

They can attack within seconds, and can choose the most vulnerable part of the vehicle to strike.<\/p>\n\n

[Russian \u201cPrince Vandal Novgorodsky\u201d fiber optic FPV]<\/p>\n\n

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At Defense Tech for Ukraine we work to develop and spread to Ukraine cost-effective technology tools.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019d like to join our team of over 300 engineers, operators, defenders, donors, developers and other volunteers or donate, we\u2019d love to hear from you at https:\/\/defensetechforukraine.org\/<\/p>\n\n

Roy Gardiner is an OSINT analyst focusing on the drone war in Ukraine, and a former officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.<\/em><\/p>\n

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He is the OSINT Technical Lead and a member of the Executive Committee with Defense Tech for Ukraine.

He can be found on X at @GrandpaRoy2
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