A Chinese-made commercial drone that was retrofitted and weaponised has been shot down in Ukraine.
The Mugin-5, available for sale on Alibaba – China’s equivalent of Amazon – was taken out of the sky by AK-47s in the wartorn country over the weekend.
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was made by a Chinese manufacturer based in the port city of Xiamen, on China’s eastern coast.
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Mugin Limited, the company that makes the drone, confirmed that the craft discovered near the city of Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, was one of its own. The firm described the incident was “deeply unfortunate”.
Read more: Independent
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