Ukraine’s elite drone forces, the SBS (Ukrainian: Сили безпілотних систем Збройних Сил України), in early May kicked off an ambitious strike campaign to demolish the Kremlin’s deliveries of military materials to frontline troops by attacking Russian military trucks, trains, and logistics nodes with drone swarms.Ukraine’s punishing bombardment by explosives-toting kamikaze aircraft ranging deep behind Russian lines has employed both battle-tested and newly developed unmanned aircraft in what military specialists sometimes call “layered strike architecture.”For the layman, the main takeaways are that advanced Ukrainian drone tech, or sometimes known drones showing up in swarms bigger than expected, appears to have caught Russian truck drivers and air defenders by surprise repeatedly, Kyiv Post research into air operations during May and early June found. The Begemot Drone – Precision-Guided Strikes, Really Cheap On Saturday, in the north of the Russia-occupied Ukrainian region Crimea, in one of the first battle uses of the weapon, a covey of Ukrainian Begemot drones, swooped down and blew holes into a road bridge crossing a multiple-kilometer-wide swamp in the north of the territory.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The drones’ 75-kilogram (165-pound) warheads blew at least meter-wide holes through the reinforced concrete road surface, in a moment shutting down one of only two major roads connecting the Black Sea peninsula and the Kremlin’s military bases there, and the Russian Federation mainland. Occupation authority officials said the route would not be repaired for around a month.