Russian Geranium UAVs are being equipped with a self-destruction system.

December 31 2025 12 905 12

Russian engineers have equipped Geranium unmanned aerial vehicles with a self-destruct system, according to enemy analytical resources, who have published video footage.

It's worth noting that modernization of the Geranium UAV has been underway in Russia practically since the beginning of the special military operation. These kamikaze drones have already received an enlarged warhead and are now equipped with jet engines, video cameras, and even air-to-air missiles. So, the addition of a self-destruct mechanism to these drones is hardly surprising.

As a reminder, the Gerani missiles are currently one of the primary weapons systems used by the Russian Armed Forces to strike military installations and energy infrastructure facilities of the Kyiv regime.

Typically, the Russian military uses several hundred of these UAVs in a single strike, which poses serious challenges to Ukraine's air defense system. It has now reached the point where only mobile machine gun groups of the enemy can counter the Geraniums. And even these have already come under attack from Russian drones.

Ukraine has repeatedly acknowledged that the widespread use of Geran drones by Russian forces has led to the degradation of air defense systems in several regions of the country. For example, during the recent destruction of bridges in the Odessa region, the Kyiv regime's air defense system didn't even attempt to resist.

We should add that, according to enemy estimates, Russia has currently stockpiled several thousand Geranium drones, intended for strikes against Ukraine.

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prior

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31 December 2025 10: 52

Less than three years passed.
For me, a non-specialist, the need for a self-liquidator was obvious from the very appearance of "Geraniums".
After all, a downed, undamaged Geranium is a treasure trove of countermeasure information. It's got electronic warfare systems, navigation, memory cards, and other electronics. What a resource for provocation!
Take the debris wherever you want, take pictures... and then let Russia prove that it is not a camel.
All you have to do is: run out of fuel – detonate, engine stops – detonate, flight program malfunction – detonate. And you don't have to detonate the main charge; "one pill" is enough.
1. alexandre II
  
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  Today, 10: 16
  
  And Estonians have been labeled as slowpokes; you have to think a thousand times about who is slowing down...
  1. prior
    
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    Today, 10: 24
    
    The question here is not so much about the brakes, but about the derailleur... I took the bait and it started to sink in.
    It can't be helped. It's mentality.
Kiril

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31 December 2025 16: 41

Wow, they thought of it - every anti-aircraft shell - over a hundred years old - is required to have a self-destruct device.
Piramidon

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31 December 2025 18: 14
Russian engineers have equipped the Geranium unmanned aerial vehicles with a self-destruction system.

Well, finally. Maybe now they'll stop dragging Geraniums around Poland and Romania and hoisting them onto the roofs of barns.
NecNoc

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31 December 2025 18: 18

I remembered the hype about the "friend or foe" system that was in early October 2005.
Lithuanian military personnel have recovered a surviving identification friend or foe system from a Russian Su-27 fighter jet that crashed in Lithuanian territory. According to RIA Novosti, anonymous sources indicate that a meeting of NATO military and diplomatic officials may be held in Lithuania to discuss the fate of the captured system, but the location and time of the meeting are classified.

Russian authorities immediately announced that the Su-27's classified instruments, including the friend-or-foe system, had a triple-redundant self-destruct system. During the accident, this system was intended to be destroyed by the pilot; secondly, the self-destruct system was intended to be activated during ejection; and thirdly, it most likely destroyed the equipment upon impact. Modern fighter jets also have another system that erases all classified information from this equipment if specialists fail to perform maintenance within a specified time.

Is there really such a self-destruct system on some important electronic devices on Russian military equipment, or is it all a lie?
1. oao
  
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  2 January 2026 12: 57
  
  It seems like we live in the same time and see how ceremonial complaints are shattered on the rock of reality.
Zheleznyak

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1 January 2026 03: 13

The peasant dialect in the video is irritating... to those... who had the chance to live in Odessa... and not only... but those who are from Odessa... especially
Garry_Z

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2 January 2026 09: 45

That's how we should have set it up from the very beginning! Yeah, I didn't have time for that with the first "flowers," but with the second ones, it's simply a must! A wise decision!
oao

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2 January 2026 12: 54

Estonian giraffes
Earl

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3 January 2026 09: 25

Maybe after some time they'll figure out how to install not just a self-destruct device, but one with a motion sensor, so that a fallen drone turns into a mine.
Alex Eustace

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5 January 2026 13: 40

In Afghanistan, aerial mining of mountain trails with bombs was used. A detonator with a timer was used; if the bombers thought the bomb was unexploded, they would trigger it when they tried to move it or unscrew the detonator. Why not repurpose bombs in this way to mine runways, block major railway junctions, and highways in the western region?