Russian kamikaze drone closing in! The terrifying message that flashed on the drone alarm in our journalists' truck as they sped towards the latest frontline - New York Read their heart-stopping dispatch and watch their documentary at youtube.com/dailymail By Richard Pendlebury and Jamie Wiseman Published: 00:12, 27 July 2024 | Updated: 00:12, 27 July 2024 e-mail View comments New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town — as we’re about to find out. But the New York we’re approaching is not the New York you know.
It’s 6.15 on an exquisite midsummer morning and we are being driven as fast as possible into the rising sun by a Ukrainian special reconnaissance unit. Our destination is a small city in Donetsk Oblast that shares its name with the Big Apple.
There the similarities end. The soundtrack to our New York journey is provided not by Sinatra but a drone alarm, with its frantic warning beeps, as a Russian target-acquisition unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) closes in on our convoy. The little black box has two antennae and fits into the palm of the hand of the soldier sitting in the front passenger seat of the pick-up truck we’re travelling in.
Its job is to detect and analyse the electronic footprints of enemy drones flying within a six-mile (10km) radius. And so, for the last mile of this otherwise charming country lane, flanked by birch trees and wildflowers, the red plastic exclamation mark on the box’s fascia has been flashing in time with the beeps. A warning m.