The Armed Forces have used the Queen Hornet drone with a grenade launcher in combat for the first time. The corresponding video was published on the Wild Hornets channel.
"The first combat use of a drone with a grenade launcher in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Pilots of the BULAVA unit from the B. Khmelnytsky Separate Brigade installed a grenade launcher on the Queen Hornet drone and successfully used it against enemy infantry. The video shows the destruction of the invader," the report says.
Recall that in the summer of 2024, the production of the Queen Hornet was shown. At that time, the developers explained that it was a multifunctional drone platform that could be a bomber, kamikaze, or cargo drone.
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Last September, Wild Hornets reported that the Bulava strike unit had installed a grenade launcher on the Hornet Queen FPV drone and conducted a successful test. At that time, it became known that a conventional grenade launcher could be used at a distance of 5+ km.
In November, it became known that almost a thousand "Korolev Hornet" were sent to the front. The development is constantly being improved and changed.
"Now the Queen Hornet is a platform used to mine, bomb the enemy, deliver cargo, carry drones, shoot from a machine gun and a grenade launcher, and relay communications," Wild Hornets wrote at the time.
In March 2025, the Wild Hornets announced that they had tested the Queen Hornet on fiber optics: 20 km with an additional 4 kg of weight.