Myanmar junta using paramotors to bomb villages in Mandalay, Sagaing regions

Myanmar’s military has increasingly deploying slow-moving, motorised gliders to attack villages from the air in central Myanmar since last month, according to local and resistance sources. 

The first accounts of a military bombing raid using paramotors—parachute-like gliders propelled by small engines—in addition to planes or helicopters emerged from Za Yat Gyi village in Mandalay Region’s Taungtha Township on December 25, 2024.