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When Crop Dusters Grow Fangs: Ukraine’s Missile-Armed Farm Plane

Every asset can be a weapon if you’re creative enough.

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Aug 22, 2025
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The Zlin Z-137 Agro Turbo crop duster with R-73 missiles. Video screenshot.

Ukraine’s war of improvisation keeps producing battlefield oddities that look like they came out of a warlord’s junkyard auction. I’m not complaining. I love it.

The latest addition might be the most audacious yet: a Czechoslovakian-built agricultural aircraft, the Zlin Z-137 Agr…

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