Originally Posted by
beardy
I wonder if the fuel dumping was to provide a visual marker for the target location.
They did try to shower the drone in a way that it gets ingested into the engine. The first one was close miss.
The fuel dump was quite clearly an attempt to down the drone in an only semi- violent way. So that there would be no trace of explosives / shrapnel. I wonder if they forgot that these drones have cameras.