As they continue to be humiliated in Ukraine, VLADIMIR Putin’s crumbling army has been forced to rely on off-the-shelf cameras, water bottles, and game pads to repair their planes and drones.
The Russian army has been exposed as it prepares to be slowed and annihilated by Ukrainian resistance, with the country now littered with bodies and wrecked Putin vehicles.
Soldiers from the Kremlin are said to have been left under-equipped, under-resourced, risking famine, and even having their trucks run out of petrol.
In addition, images and videos reveal some of the haphazard, off-the-shelf equipment that Russian forces are obliged to utilise to make ends meet.
Footage shows a soldier dismantling a Russian military surveillance drone that crashed in Ukraine, only to discover that the drone isn’t as sophisticated as it appears.
The drone employs a Canon camera that is fastened on a board using duct tape, according to a video posted by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense.
The camera’s mode dial was also sealed with glue, which isn’t exactly the high-tech military equipment Russia talks about.
The drone’s camera is a Canon EOS Rebel T6i, a £200-£300 DSLR camera that was released in 2015.
Also shown in the video is a drone that has been jerry-rigged with a plastic bottle to serve as a fuel tank.
Furthermore, a broadcast on Belarusian TV channel VoenTV claims to have accidentally disclosed that Russian drones are controlled by inexpensive Logitech gamepads.
“How the Russian air defence systems S-300 and UAV ‘Orlan-10,’ which ‘guard the Belarusian skies,’ function,” according to the study.
According to the report, the drone Orlan-10 was equipped with a Logitech Gamepad F310 from 2010 and a normal Canon camera.
The power button was glued shut once more.
Anonymous, a vigilante hacking organisation, has pointed out that the drone is running an old version of Windows Vista, which was launched in 2007.
Russian military also appear to be utilising widely accessible, unencrypted walkie talkies, according to photos.
Meanwhile, according to the Defence blog, Russian jets are thought to employ commercial GPS devices throughout their sorties.
Viktor Alksnis, a veteran of the Soviet Air Force, posted photos of the Su-34 Fullback fighter-bomber during a combat mission in Syria on social media, pointing out a commercial GPS receiver fastened with a clamp in the cockpit.
He said the Russians utilised a US-made receiver to copy the onboard navigation systems, which he claimed frequently failed.
All of this raises major doubts about Putin’s military prowess, which he constantly touts as one of the world’s best.
