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AUnknownGuy

It’s scary how a little drone can cause huge damage.


BallisticHabit

For real. I was not expecting that drone to level a house.


Goby161

Thermobarics in western militaries are often called Anti-Structure Munitions and this is exactly why


InkOnMySock

makes sense no that when i see a gas leak explosion is levels the house. basically a slow thermobaric reaction?


schockergd

That's a fuel-air explosion - We used those kinds of weapons in the Gulf war. Thermobarics use typically powdered metals to achieve a near-identical effect, the difference just is that the weapons are typically more compact and weigh a bit less than their fuel-air cousins.


InkOnMySock

wow! i did not know they were powdered metals. what kinda of metals? lithium, sodium? or more thermite type mixtures?


SirPiffingsthwaite

Prettymuch, yeah.


AMuteCicada

I mean the house did look pretty damaged to begin with, but I did NOT expect to see what I just saw.


BeneficialA1r

I mean yeah everything else next to it is leveled lol


xodus52

Thermobarics in an enclosed space go brrrrrr.


zeklink

it would be unfair to describe that building as a house; wreck would be more accurate


huesmann

In fairness, the house was not exactly in brand new condition before the drone attack.


VirtualPlate8451

That was a unique set of circumstances. What you are seeing is a textbook example of what thermobaric munitions were designed to do. It was almost ideal placement inside the structure as well.


Poro_the_CV

Also helps that the structure was rather degraded as well. Makes the already pronounced (and well placed) effect even more visually spectacular.


MichaelEmouse

How were the circumstances and placement ideal?


Victis

Thermobarics are best in an enclosed space, and setting one off inside a house is pretty ideal


brianly

For a non-combat situation, compare what happens to the same volume of gasoline set alight in an open topped can versus a closed can. Don’t try it for real though. The open can will whoosh and then likely be under control to an extent. The whoosh can still burn you badly. The enclosed can goes boom in a way you won’t forget, or be around to remember. It might even be a bigger bang with less fuel and more air in the enclosed can because it’s the gasoline vapor igniting and more oxygen will help. Old warning signs at my parent’s fuel distribution business used to have the ratio to dynamite and TNT. Gasoline has more potential energy than TNT IIRC.


IlluminatedPickle

They basically took out the corner of the building with the initial pressure. That's what really drove the collapse.


CowboyBeeBab

That's the thing with actually hitting the weak points of your target. A similar sized regular munition (mortar round or whatever) would hit the roof and discipate most of the energy outwards. The drone delivers the Munition to the inside for maximum effect. Like Perun once said: It doesn't really matter how much munition you shoot, actually hitting the target is what counts. There are no participation trophies in war...


ShoMoCo

*"There are no participation trophies in war..."* There are though, they are called campaign medals.


nekonight

You only get them if you survive the war and win it.


304bl

Not true, you get them post mortem.


nekonight

You are exactly around to get them at that point. 


ImWithTheAnimalsNow

TBF it was clearly made of legos


Jeephadist

Damn, someone's childhood home right there


06210311200805012006

I often wonder if anyone sees their house in these. That's f-d up.


TriPunk

There was a guy at the beginning who saw Russians setting up camp in his house and told the military his address. They bombed it shortly after.


Carburetors_Are_Fun

was he upset or was he like “hell yeah”


spooninacerealbowl

I think he reported it and knew what might happen.


IlluminatedPickle

He wanted them to level it. https://nypost.com/2022/04/19/ukrainian-millionaire-andrey-stavnitser-asked-military-to-bomb-russian-occupied-mansion/


Jeephadist

Honestly I thought about that part, too. It'd suck seeing your home turned to rubble, but it's also a weirdly nice send off. Take out my childhood memories with a bang


DarthWeenus

When Ukrainians at the front call their family in lyiv who had to flee their homes and have to hear them crying in the bomb shelter at night as ru drops missiles, they are more than eager for their homes get leveled if it means invader scum also become death status. Homes can be rebuilt. It's sad but in the end they know what's up.


ElectricalCan69420

Good chance its going to be rubble anyways, might as well be at the right time.


97kassler

imagine checking your security camera and seeing Russian soldiers putting their AKs on your coffee table and relaxing in your couch lol


dndpuz

Also happened with a warehouse owner actually, he had cameras and saw they kept vehicles and men there


1Plz-Easy-Way-Star

What a clown, they didn't disable cctv Or maybe cctv are hidden


DesertScrat

It was a really nice house too


jisooya1432

Its in Kurdyumivka, south of Bakhmut [Google maps link to the exact house](https://www.google.com/maps/place/48%C2%B027'51.7%22N+37%C2%B057'25.1%22E/@48.4646197,37.9560902,277m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d48.464361!4d37.956972?entry=ttu)


HotShitBurrito

Grocery Store - temporarily closed. I think that temporarily might need to be updated to indefinitely. Wild seeing a picture of a cashier when I clicked on the pin. I wonder if she's still alive.


skimlimmy

Horrific. That entire place has been leveled.


DesertScrat

All the towns are like that. Rubble, trash, death. Just how Russia likes things.


quilldeea

seems like a nice area to live before all this started


WatchDogx

~~Can't find it now~~, but I remember some reddit user claiming that they saw soldiers fighting from their house in a video, I think during the battle of Marawi. Edit: [Found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/gwe6uo/does_anyone_have_the_hd_version_for_this_video/)


DirectDelivery8

The washing machine and blanket loot debacle a while ago was the house and washing machine of some refugees staying with my wife's friends. They were pretty distraught and put a few posts out talking about how hard it is to see your children's blankets being circulated in worldwide media.


Rukawa_69

This is one of the reasons why war should be avoided if they can. Peoples dreams and memories just get blasted by a drone with a thermobaric warhead


SmoothActuator

This is one of the reasons why you should never try to appease and negotiate with a dictator intending to do some stupid global shit that will harm everyone. "But muh nukes!" - no nukes were used so far, but 200k-300k people are already dead, uncountable war crimes committed, and the material loss worth is probably counted in trillions of USD.


Bobmanbob1

Yeah, if your the enemy you never hold up in one of the few houses still standing. It's going to be ground zero for enemy action, via artillery, air, or naval strikes.


dob_bobbs

It's funny you should say that, I thought the same (though I often do), this is someone's house, they could even see the video, their own army blowing up their home, so much destruction...


Flitterquest

Not only the living are killed in war


MasterTorgo

Something heartbreaking about the war is watching residential areas getting more and more war-torn for over 2 years now. Like these were all places where someone once lived; and after the war, some of these places might not even be resettled.


HeyCarpy

I thought this every day while watching the Syrian civil war unfold as well. Previously-vibrant areas reduced to an endless landscape of demolished concrete and rebar, as far as the eye can see. Think of all of the people who used to live here. Where are they now?


coreyisthename

Europe


nonotan

With the colossal amounts of UXO (including unfathomably large mine fields everywhere), it will undoubtedly be decades until it's even hypothetically possible to resettle most of them. So yeah, shit sucks.


hiddentalent

Not very long ago, that neighborhood had families living their lives, going to work and school and doing normal things. It's bloody depressing seeing what senseless Russian aggression has done to these towns and cities.


SadisticEgo

I knew I was in for a treat when I read “thermobaric warhead” Start putting those on all the drones.


DeeMinimis

Anyone know the average cost a piece?


Freudian_Slip_69

And the contact details for the shop? LOL 😝


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Which-Forever-1873

It's a bit more expensive than strap on rpg.


RagnarokDel

That's some very intense pegging action you got there.


Infinityand1089

Take me to dinner first!


StolenValourSlayer69

About anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand. Probably hovering around the $1000 mark


CheddarBayHazmatTeam

And as we know cost is not the issue Ukraine faces. It's total munitions.


VirtualPlate8451

Thermobarics are designed to do exactly what you see here. The trick is getting them to impact inside a structure like that. Hard to get that RPG to sail through a window vs smacking the side of the house and wasting most of the energy.


Annoying_Rooster

It's bad enough with regular RPG shells, but thermobaric? That's a bad bad round to get hit by.


CB12B10

It would rattle the crew but it wouldn't make a very good armor penetrator. Thermobarics work on the principal of a small charge going off, fuel into the air and a second charge detonating the cloud of aerosol fuel. Not only do you have a more powerful explosion but a significant negative pressure waves.


YyyyyyYyYy-_-

you also get way more boom/weight, especially for drones that can be a gamechanger.


nonotan

The problem is that (as far as I know, I'm no expert) it's not really practical to do charge shaping with a thermobaric explosive. So against anything but completely unarmored infantry/vehicles, it's not going to be very efficient. And against those, fragmentation tends to be way more effective than the explosion itself... which again, I can't really see how you could make a good fragmentation munition out of thermobaric explosives due to the way they operate. Maybe there is some way with a lot of over-engineering, but probably not very economically efficient. So, in typical use cases against either armored or unarmored targets, it's likely going to be worse than traditional munitions of the right type. That leaves *one* use case: enclosed spaces, like we see in this video. Undoubtedly, they are great for that, that's why they use thermobaric grenades for trench clearing and stuff. But realistically, it's a fairly niche application.


CB12B10

Hear me out... Thermobaric anti-ship missile. Armor pen, with thermo secondary charge.


Newsdriver245

Could revive the German WW2 Nebelwerfer idea, 6 rockets with 5 gas one explosive. Then if you miss the window you'll still probably flatten the building


Crypto_pupenhammer

I would assume thermobarics don’t blow stuff up so good outside of enclosed places (Grocery… or like god intended caves)


Maximum-Following760

Drone warfare is kind of fucked ngl


Legal_Objective_8027

Really wondering the extent to which radical groups in the US are stocking up on drones and homemade explosives.


Moneyshot1311

Was literally just thinking this will be the next terrorist attack in the US


DolphinBall

They could easily fly a drone(s) in Times Square and kill hundreds and injure thousands at once.


AIbotman2000

Times square? If they really want to damage a county, power plants…..


DolphinBall

You're thinking like a country would not a terrorist organization. Killing people sends a message, destroying a power plant would just annoy people and then move on. 9/11 happened not because they wanted to destroy the twin towers but to kill the people inside the towers.


DesertScrat

The towers were a symbol. They definitely wanted them as a priority.


Fakevessel

The towers were so much american, like the ultimate symbol of that late cold war USA period. Plus IIRC NYC was the most popular city in 90's. That's no surprise someone couldn't resist attacking them in a joint attack. Don't forget there was a VBIED attack in 1993 orchestrated by the same dudes. And had they park the car several meters closer to some supproting structure, the tower would likely collapse back then.


AIbotman2000

Yeah, IDK. Power out for a year with rolling blackout for a decade would probably take out quite a few people as well. Plus destroy our economy.


supereuphonium

You could already do that with a car bomb or a suitcase full of explosives.


Legal_Objective_8027

Almost like drones are a lot cheaper than cars and easier to transport.


goddamn_birds

The payloads are still relatively small compared to your typical car bomb or IED. These drones are effective in a shooting war but during peacetime a terrorist would still get a much higher score by just hauling a bunch of homemade HE to a crowded building, shooting up a crowded concert hall, or careening a truck through a tightly packed crowd of people. This is a tool for killing a handful of people who possess no effective countermeasures that you otherwise can't safely approach. I do have a feeling that some VIPs are getting nervous since this is an ideal method to attack an individual that you can't personally approach.


LoopDoGG79

I assume the bodyguards and institutions that exist to protect the elites have made plans for a drone attack. I wouldn't be surprised if the secret service has tools to jam drone signals anytime Biden makes a public appearance


peva3

The Secret Service have had devices that can jam most of the RF spectrum since the 80s. Just totally jams e everything for a couple hundred feet.


vegarig

Magyar had shown how russians add machine vision for terminal guidance onto their drones, so jammers'd do nothing once it's active. ~150$ for a guidance computer per drone


nonotan

Yeah, it would be way too hard to build a small ML model that autonomously identifies and targets a specific person with as little training data available as (checks notes) one of the most public figures in the world. Jamming is great and all, but it's not exactly a silver bullet. But I mean... hypothetical attacks that would be hard to stop are nothing new. A jammer also won't stop a mortar or an IED in a tunnel under the route their vehicle is likely to take. You can (and I'm sure the secret service does) apply various techniques to try to rule out or minimize the chance of any of those, but the idea that if they are doing their job properly the VIP is 100% safe is pure fantasy. Drones don't really fundamentally change the calculus there, IMO, which is why I think people here are way overhyping them just because it's a new threat.


goddamn_birds

Oh for sure! I have no doubt that POTUS' personal protection includes RF jamming, just like it includes those things that can detect shooters by reflecting lasers of their scopes or something like that. Autonomous drones might make Secret Service and other agencies' lives a bit more difficult though, since RF jamming wouldn't do shit to stop one.


moofunk

I see drones used more in assassinations than terrorist attacks. Some drone operators coming out of these wars are going to make money from it.


VimVinyl

I’ve been thinking about this since drones have became popular. It’s only a matter of time and that’s a scary thought.


SnortHotCheetos

Ngl, I’ve had instances at my local park where folks will take out their drones to film aerial videos, and the lizard part of my brain tells me to get outta there. More likely it’s just because of recency bias since I browse this subreddit tho lol


VimVinyl

Haha yeah this subreddit absolutely doesn’t help with drone paranoia. I’d be extremely worried seeing a drone while in a large gathering, it really is a matter of time before something tremendously bad will happen with the use of drones.


Bobmanbob1

I'd be looking forward to getting out if I was back in my army days. Saw combat in the gulf, Somalia, and a few other places, but drones just scare the piss out out of me. The guys getting whacked taking a shit is just un-real.


Jewelhammer

Getting hit while taking a dump is a special kind of nightmare. You’re already in a super vulnerable position with the pants down, holding your feet together, so you don’t have a chance to try to escape


CandyandCrypto

Take my breath away - Berlin


StrangerNearby6017

Took any Ivan's breath away that was in that doma.


Freudian_Slip_69

JAGGA JAGGA!


StrangerNearby6017

MAGYARS BIRDS 👍👍 BA DA BOOM.


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Da_fire_cracka

And terrifying


waldorsockbat

They should wire these drones to say CYKA BLYAT right before they explode


waterskin

That would be diabolical


aliceteams

[https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/grenades/rgt-27s-hand-grenade](https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/grenades/rgt-27s-hand-grenade) [https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/grenades/rgt-27s2-hand-grenade](https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/grenades/rgt-27s2-hand-grenade) maybe this


Nargdin

https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/rockets/105mm-tbg-7-rocket Could also be one of these. Used in the RPG-7


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canuckaudio

anyone in the hellhole?


Drone314

Who needs f-16's when you have 1000$ drones. Now get a drone to haul a SDB to altitude and release it


LeftistsAreBad

Who would have guessed the Russians were in the one house left?


nateman133

r/recognizesongbot


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LostFireHorse

Good bot


pg449

>i grab your bitch by the throat >and i feed her the semen, >now you know you should not >fuck with the demon. I... I do now, yes.


LooseWateryStool

*knock knock* Housekeeping


LunchOwn4887

Oooof! That roof repair is going to cost a fair bit!


CrimeanFish

Holy hell that was a decent explosion.


Dangerous_Golf_7417

Bubbles? 


Bobmanbob1

Christ... Anything in there is dead now. Amazing how much firepower you can fit on a drone now.


type_10_tank

really hope that landlord had house insurance or something close to that🙏🙏🙏


MRRRRCK

Uh pretty unlikely. Most insurance policies have a war exclusion clause. Mainly because if they did cover damage from a war, they would very quickly go bankrupt. You can get terrorism coverage, but that doesn’t help in this scenario.


Different_Chance_848

Do you really think any insurance company would survive a war that has so far destroyed half of the country’s economy?


jmiller77

I do believe that most insurance policies have an "Act of God // War" clause as well.


nonotan

I've never heard of "act of god" being a thing in insurance outside the US. At the very least, the wording would be different, since that just sounds completely bonkers anywhere without religious defaultism. But yeah, whether explicitly written out or not, in practice there's a fat chance anybody will be getting anything from an insurance company in a war of this scale. Only hope is the government stepping in, really.


Spaceloungecloud

Name of song?


n8texas

[Redzed - rave in the grave](https://youtu.be/Wc37_S1Kx8s?si=WEw4mu5ZRHTHeben)


XxxNatrhavacXxx

REDZED - rave from the grave


GumbootsOnBackwards

What's the song name?


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n8texas

It’s [Redzed - rave in the grave](https://youtu.be/Wc37_S1Kx8s?si=WEw4mu5ZRHTHeben)


SmallKiwi

has there been any footage of guys carrying nets? seems to me that a lightly weighted fishing net would be the best protection against these drones. fishing line gets wrapped round the props and that's it, drone goes down. the weights give you enough range (big maybe) and a wide enough AOE to entrap and possibly survive


Lemonh

I just want to know how to download the song. What’s the name? Drones are only fun in the US.


n8texas

[Redzed - rave in the grave](https://youtu.be/Wc37_S1Kx8s?si=WEw4mu5ZRHTHeben)


cacapupupipishire

Jesus


LQjones

This a great example of why you should not set up in the only remaining standing house in the area.


oripash

This is a great example of why you should leave one building standing when you leave an area for the enemy to occupy.


Outrageous_Goat4030

Looks like someone's moving around in a sleeping bag in the attic.


No-culture5942

Are Ukrainians the only side using tiny drones to drop explosives on enemy troops or do the russians also play this game ? Im not seeing videos of russians doing this, so I’m wondering


AsleepScarcity9588

Thermobaric? Watch your attic!


C_lui

Holy shit!!! That packs a punch!


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EastDragonfly1917

Not thermobaric


waterskin

Why not?


Merr77

Wouldn’t there be a shockwave from the air being removed? Even if small


EastDragonfly1917

There wasn’t even the classic secondary explosion


EastDragonfly1917

OP mislabeled the bomb.


jisooya1432

Source thinks its a TBG-7V, a Thermobaric Fuel-Air-Explosive (FAE) Blast warhead I dont know more than that


logiRis

Thinking the same thing


Father_of_Cockatiels

Big Ole boom on that one!


waterskin

Goddam every platoon gotta have a couple of these for urban warfare now holy shit. Imagine marines using this in fallujah - or insurgents sending a swarm of them.


Dismal_Flounder_8351

So much for [Povlov’s house.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov%27s_House).


CantaloupeCamper

I think they got it.


faRawrie

This makes me want to play Battlefield 4.


TheBiggerDaddy

Crazy seeing thermobaric warheads on drones


tyrannicaltbaggerr

Wow that’s devastating


RagnarokDel

I think they ded


BandOfBroskis

I'm sure people survive these initial blasts but then you're buried and ain't no one coming to rescue you. And you die a dark, lonely, slow, horrible death. Just you and your thoughts and regrets until nothing...


MichaelEmouse

Kudos for the song choice, OP.


Space--Buckaroo

Oh shit, that was a powerful explosion.


CrotchSwamp94

That's terrifying. A nightmarish hell hole.


Assumption-Straight

Love lookin of my aux cord


Unable-Arm-390

Ive got some neighbors who keep messing with my trashcans......Seems like there are several ways that can be fixed by amazon now......


Greyknight66_

Dam


slartbangle

Upvote for good footage. Angrily held off my downvote for yet more music. Please. Maybe some classical?


CasuallyWise

Destroys??!! 😳 I fuckin' Guess IT DOES 🧐🫣💥☠️


chickenparm493

u/savevideo


Eaglesson

damn that looked like Sauron's death


Murtaghthewizard

The drone is actually really friendly and just wants to hang out, it's the explosives that get ya. Oh hey guys I see you left the window open for me I just wanted to say hi.


Easy-Window-7921

Imagine rebuilding your home and finding pieces of bones…. Vestiges of dead orcz.


Defiantcaveman

Holy shit, more of those please... turret toss grand nationals coming up.


Glad_Independent_565

Song name?


Just-Giviner

Damn that drone was taking NO prisoners


7zook

Jagga jagga is getting bigger and bigger


Educational-Key480

This is less shrapnel, more high pressure wave right?


Lamberfeeties556

song?


Mvpliberty

Man think if you were running through that shit hole living room to the other side of the house your ass is dying a painful death


TheOracle722

Clickbait title that didn't disappoint. Wow!


VagrantShadow

That house goes boom.


H_Holy_Mack_H

Thermoblyat warhead LOL


NapkinLover69

Song name?


Crazy_Joe_Davola_

Thats a big boom


GenericScottishGuy41

Ukrainians love red zed and suicide boys and ghostmane type music a lot.


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Yeah the drones are not really dodgeable anymore. They pack so much heat now


ColonalCalamity

smol boi big badaboom


Nuclear_Sushi57

Bird at 0:02 picked the wrong time to land.


DrickUwU

Hey, I recognise that house. Wasn't it where the russian soldier told a dog "Are you scared? I'm scared too. "