It's a kayak with a grenade launcher. And it could be game-changer in Ukraine.
As Russia's war against Ukraine wears on, Ukrainian fighters are using 'combat kayaks' and other innovative means to fight back. KYIV, Ukraine -- In a quiet bay of the Dnipro River, a one-hour drive from Kyiv, a group of Ukrainian engineers and special forces soldiers tested what they believe can be a Game -changer in the Ukrainian counteroffensive: the Poloz-M16 combat kayak . What otherwise looks like the familiar watercraft has been redesigned for special Military purposes – in the Kherson region, for example, where the front line parallels the wide Dnipro, with multiple islands between its banks. "To design something like this you have to build boats for 30 years. That's what I've been doing," says Serhiy Ostashenko, CEO of the Adamant Verf company, which produces the kayak s. He designed the Poloz-M16 overnight, he said, after special forces soldiers came to him with a need, and an idea. "Poloz-M16 is similar to what the American and British...