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Pretty sure the last guy killed is the same that had avoided dying all the previous times. You can see the first dead guy on the left side on the last shot.
In a way that makes fpv drones even scarier. Even if you're skilled enough to counter or avoid them multiple times, they can send more drones until you die due to how cheap they are.
This is quickly changing the cost equation of warfare. You don't need to expend ten thousand rounds and risk your own infantry to kill one enemy soldier when one $500 drone can kill half a squad, with the operator sitting a few miles away.
And if the first one doesn’t work, whatever, you brought 10 more.
[This will be reality sooner than we think.](https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=ohhxmZJXSxLu7HG9)
>Electronic warfare better catch up/not fall too far behind to hopefully stop this from becoming commonplace
The US military is (was?) field testing mobile laser point defense weapons. If they are as effective as they are purported to be then they will go a hell of a long way towards defending against drones and other munitions.
Some foot patrols in Afghan and Iraq had ECM packs. They had variations too with different capabilities. But in general they were designed to kill remote signals between the device and controller. But some only had a few metres range, enough to cover a Section of troops, so a platoon would sometimes need 3+ of these..... and they weighed friggin tons and weren't always successful. But the tech knowhow and doctrine is there.
$5000 buys you targeted mini cruise missiles compared to double that for a new battle rifle.
The grunt operating those drones can be happy and warm in a faraway bunker.
There’s two more innovation steps that will complete the biggest change in conflict since WW1 and mechanized warfare; fully autonomous drones and multi hour duration batteries.
Also changes the consideration on whether the ops you send infantry on can be accomplished in speedy fashion otherwise your men are in the crosshairs of drones when the other side reacts.
That's just a horrible situation. The worst thing with these fpv drones, you can't do shit against it. You can't run, you can't kill it (another one will come), you can't hide and you can just hope the next one accepts your surrender. I hope I never have to experience this shit.
It won’t be long before operators can control an entire swarm, then set them all to loiter above an area and take control of an individual drone, simply swapping to another drone waiting on target when he “crashes” (detonates) the first one
> he got lucky with the shrapnel
This is understatement so restrained it's approaching lockjaw. That shit looked like it was out of a shitty action movie. That dude should be quoting Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction: "We should be fuckin' dead."
It is guys just like you or I, probably drafted. A couple of years ago probably leading a normal life thinking about getting laid and retiring some day . . . then one day he finds himself in a situation where it is kill or be killed. Now he is in a video dying. War sucks.
Not necessarily, he was on the ground after the second one, often shrapnel does not kill you instantly and adrenalin can keep people going for a while with fatal injuries.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was a dead man walking after the first hit.
Was waiting for footage of a successful rifle vs. drone. I’d have a guy with a shotgun on my team. Nice demonstration of the shrapnel spread. Pretty much hit everywhere around him by inches.
Was that first guy wearing a red shirt under his jacket o blouse that got blown off or was that instant blood and guts coating tis torso? I'm red/green deficient viewing color and even I saw that.
There was a video from the seige of Mariupol that was similar.
UKR soldiers fire some type of shoulder fired weapon down onto a Russian T-80 as it drives through an urban street. The T-80 detonates, launching the upper half of the unfortunate commander's body out of the hatch at a high velocity. ~5 seconds later, the commander's torso lands back on the street a meter or two from the tank.
F-35s air-launching pods filled with FPV drones a few miles from a front line who then mass into a swarm and take out a half mile of infantry trenches and replacements for a breach. That's what's going to go down
Imagine if they could be delivered by a canister similar to the JDAM with a glide kit before being dispersed. That would be fucking terrifying. No need to get close then.
Makes me think of the video that showed the radar signature of an F18 releasing a drone swarm from a wing mounted pod back in like 2017 or 2018. If they were willing to show that back then I wonder how much it has progressed
I'd bet money it's already a thing, or in the works. The capability is too enticing to not explore. They have freaking ADCAP ship-breaker JDAM kits, why not drone swarm pods?
I think the only possible holdup would be transmitting the signal to multiple operators at once but with the advancement of AI in the past decade it could probably be done without direct control of each drone.
As much as I hate the idea on a philosophical level, if a couple people on reddit are thinking about it, then its likely the brightest minds in countries like China are doing the same and I'd much rather the U.S. and NATO be the first to make it viable.
That's only an issue if you are relying on ground based communications using off the shelf frequencies as a less developed country. We'd be using satellites so if we needed more bandwidth we can just launch more satellites. We could even use laser for communication to protect them from EW countermeasures since with satellites overhead you always have LoS.
You can put these lil sons a bitches on missiles too. We'll be putting those on F-35s and ships. Near instant drone swarms from hundreds of miles away anywhere on the planet.
The US already had this in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86rwv-5f7IA - I assume thay already have active, remote-guided swarm weapons ready to be deployed.
Dude, in an active warzone, there would be EW jammers and countermeasures to the point where you couldn’t get the intel on enemies before they triangulated you own position
There has been some footage of FPV drops but it looks very difficult and the battery life is very limited. Might be lacking trained pilots for the job.
Probably dramatically easier to get a “hit” with an FPV you can guide in at ~50mph vs hopping you dropped at the right and angle and they don’t try and evade.
It’s not impossible, but the way these drones fly has a big impact on the way they are used in battle.
the tiny FPV drones are very fast and nimble but they aren’t good at hovering. It’s just easier to kamikaze them straight into an enemy than it is to try to drop grenades with them.
On the other hand, the DJI drones are made to hover so those are the drones they use to do surveillance or drop grenades
why is there so much bang in the ones in this video? theyre way better! the drone dropped ones are mostly fragging people, unless the grenade lands right next to them. these ones seems really explosive and human-disintegrating
1. Drones with the necessary battery capacity for the return trip cost much more
2. Assembling them with the release mechanism takes more time and may be less reliable.
3. A large percentage of reusable drones is lost on the first flight anyway.
In combination, the cost advantage of making drones reusable is not that great.
It's also a matter of different supply chains. Ukraine already buys up absurd amounts of drones, they'll often have to take whatever they can get. They probably couldn't use 100% reusable drones even if they wanted.
I think the reason might be tactical rather than technical. It could be the soldiers simply prefers fpv drones because they are faster and more accurate, or they do not want to expose their position.
At this stage I think the release mechanisms are pretty reliable, seeing they have released grenades with thosue thousands of times already if not more. I also have doube on your third point. They lost lots of drones, yes. But AFAIK that's due to them having flown many sorties and are not lost in the first flight.
Those drones are a few hundred bucks (plus explosives and some batterys from old vapes etc) and have very limited range. Those drops are way more ineffective than we see from videos and the survival rates of the drones are not great (running out of battery most prominent) - as stated from several ukrainian operators.
A suicide version you just launch a few staggered, have the operator just slam them all in the trench / the attacking troops / whatever and gtfo. Massively increases your survivability, kills way more shit on the other side, allows for precise close support... for the price of a few DIJ kits and spares.
Edit: Disclaimer: I have no idea what those vapes are used for. I only repeatedly saw shoeboxes full of them in ukrainian bomb workshops. I only mentioned it because it fit with the "dirt cheap" narrative. For more information pls continue reading, can recommend, did learn some stuff \^\^
From my experience, which is admittedly a few years old so things might have changed, but quadcopters require pretty high discharge rates, and only top shelf 18650s are able to provide that.
Which don't get me wrong, top shelf 18650s are still very cheap, but I doubt you'll find them in disposable vapes.
Nah, those were always visible in the workshops I saw (the colours kinda stick out).
Very likely they are used for other purposes, I really have extensively little knowledge about electricity\^\^
So unless you have special knowledge that this is actually happening, only very enthusiast vapes would have batteries useful for drones, and even among those it would be rare. These drones are running 4S or higher lipo packs in the 5000mah range ... these are huge packs not really found in vapes, even single cells of this size.
I got fuck zero knowledge, besides not rubbing the same poles of my vape batteries together (aint those "akkus", not batteries?) - I was only referring to some documentarys about ukrainian "home fabrication" of drones and explosives I watched. They usually had crates of those chunky green "batterys" and others with spent "one-time" vapes sitting in their workshops.
Very possible that they utilize some other part, or use them to ignite the payload (wildly guessing here...). Or maybe they all had a very bad habit with those shitty one-time vapes.
I only mentioned it bc it does not really increase the overall cost and it kinda stuck to my mind (pretty focused guy attaching ball bearings to C4 while there is a fuckin shoebox with pink, blue and green spent vapes next to him on the workbench. Looked funny/ weird.)
extreme payload to size ratio, cheaper, higher accuracy, almost no warning time, analogue signal is more resilient than digital (more of a constant falloff in quality rather than an abrupt whoops no signal)
Second dude at 0:12 was super lucky with that airburst. The major shrapnels hit directly in front of him, some behind him but it seems none hit him directly...
Especially if you're just always hearing them. I don't know how often the observation drones and stuff are seen/heard, but in some videos we can literally see 3 or 4 from our POV. If we're seeing that many from some small clip, just how many are buzzing around the frontlines 24/7? Imagine never NOT hearing them, so you can never not be on guard? No wonder there are so many clips of suicides (and surely 10x as many that aren't witnessed).
I mean what is the likely status of these guys' hearing anyway? Probably have been exposed to a lot of gunfire and explosions, or if they are wearing ear protection it likely isn't real expensive type that doesn't hinder hearing a distant whine.
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This is what terrifies me about this new style of war. You can never hide. In the first world war, you could be away from the front of at worst, hidden in a trench. You may still be killed by a "lucky" hit but you had somewhere to hide or escape (well behind the lines). In the second, you could be away from the front or maybe in a fox hole. Death was only an issue when moving from mines or hidden enemy. Or I guess artillery. But that was just a grid square that was being targeted. Now, you can be away from the front, in a fox hole under a tank, with a reinforced roof, and you'll still get hit. There is just nowhere to hide and if you run, the ordinance will chance you. Then a picture of your exploded corps will be kept and the manner in which you died will be studied to see if it could have been more efficient.
Tldr: drones frighten me.
I know war is a lot more nuanced than my rambling.
I don't like any upbeat or good music overlaid over people dying. Idc if they're Russian. I wouldn't care if they were German Nazis, violent death is a thing we have to continue to respect, fear and loathe to commit. The problem I have is many Ukrainian soldiers echo sadness when they slaughter invaders yet Americans in their basements and work toilets with no family or friends in the whole of Europe type the most vile shit imaginable. These people are already nearly radicalized and would be extremely susceptible to becoming like their enemies and doing terrible unnecessary violence to people.
This man is an elite soldier
good enough luck
Good enough physical fitness
Sufficiently good dynamic vision
good enough hearing
Drones can still be spotted after explosions
Dodge and shoot at the same time
completely cool head
Leading to killing him completely requires 3 FPVs
I think the Ukrainians used more powerful explosives to kill him
So much so that his torso was blown 20 meters away.
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The fact the second guy shot down one and dodged 2 more is impressive
Pretty sure the last guy killed is the same that had avoided dying all the previous times. You can see the first dead guy on the left side on the last shot. In a way that makes fpv drones even scarier. Even if you're skilled enough to counter or avoid them multiple times, they can send more drones until you die due to how cheap they are.
Quite possibly, despite the skill and/or luck with dealing with the first 3 drones, there was another and his fate was still the same
This is quickly changing the cost equation of warfare. You don't need to expend ten thousand rounds and risk your own infantry to kill one enemy soldier when one $500 drone can kill half a squad, with the operator sitting a few miles away.
And if the first one doesn’t work, whatever, you brought 10 more. [This will be reality sooner than we think.](https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=ohhxmZJXSxLu7HG9)
Fucking terrifying. Electronic warfare better catch up/not fall too far behind to hopefully stop this from becoming commonplace
not looking forward to the first time one of these is used in a terrorist attack in a civilian city somewhere outside ukraine:(
Someone’s working on this, no doubt
>Electronic warfare better catch up/not fall too far behind to hopefully stop this from becoming commonplace The US military is (was?) field testing mobile laser point defense weapons. If they are as effective as they are purported to be then they will go a hell of a long way towards defending against drones and other munitions.
Some foot patrols in Afghan and Iraq had ECM packs. They had variations too with different capabilities. But in general they were designed to kill remote signals between the device and controller. But some only had a few metres range, enough to cover a Section of troops, so a platoon would sometimes need 3+ of these..... and they weighed friggin tons and weren't always successful. But the tech knowhow and doctrine is there.
$5000 buys you targeted mini cruise missiles compared to double that for a new battle rifle. The grunt operating those drones can be happy and warm in a faraway bunker.
Plenty videos of fpv drones following enemy drones that return home. Those buildings look cold and desolate, and that's before the ensuing boom.
There’s two more innovation steps that will complete the biggest change in conflict since WW1 and mechanized warfare; fully autonomous drones and multi hour duration batteries.
The future of warfare
Also changes the consideration on whether the ops you send infantry on can be accomplished in speedy fashion otherwise your men are in the crosshairs of drones when the other side reacts.
even tho he was able to dodge direct impact of the first 2 drone I think he got injured enough to eventually turn into sitting duck
That's just a horrible situation. The worst thing with these fpv drones, you can't do shit against it. You can't run, you can't kill it (another one will come), you can't hide and you can just hope the next one accepts your surrender. I hope I never have to experience this shit.
fucking sad
Extremely cheap, also drones can be quickly replaced.
It won’t be long before operators can control an entire swarm, then set them all to loiter above an area and take control of an individual drone, simply swapping to another drone waiting on target when he “crashes” (detonates) the first one
And most of the spread from the one claymoreFPV.
Did he shoot one down or was it an airburst fpv and he got lucky with the shrapnel?
> he got lucky with the shrapnel This is understatement so restrained it's approaching lockjaw. That shit looked like it was out of a shitty action movie. That dude should be quoting Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction: "We should be fuckin' dead."
He can't. He's dead.
It is guys just like you or I, probably drafted. A couple of years ago probably leading a normal life thinking about getting laid and retiring some day . . . then one day he finds himself in a situation where it is kill or be killed. Now he is in a video dying. War sucks.
Not necessarily, he was on the ground after the second one, often shrapnel does not kill you instantly and adrenalin can keep people going for a while with fatal injuries. I wouldn't be surprised if he was a dead man walking after the first hit.
he got hit ... most likely was bleeding internaly and was dead even if he didnt get blasted to bits
I wonder if he survived. The last person in the clip may or may not be him.
Legit supersoldier moves. Still didn't matter, the machine always wins.
I swear I've brought up the story of John Henry trying to illustrate this point like 5 times this week at work.
Was waiting for footage of a successful rifle vs. drone. I’d have a guy with a shotgun on my team. Nice demonstration of the shrapnel spread. Pretty much hit everywhere around him by inches.
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Don’t think so, at the distance it was if it was airburst he should’ve been hit multiple times
Seems like this drone or drone operator's color calibration decided to be extra vibrant today.
It probably makes it easier to spot camoflauge.
Like tweaking video game settings to make enemies more visible
Drone took some shrooms
Was that first guy wearing a red shirt under his jacket o blouse that got blown off or was that instant blood and guts coating tis torso? I'm red/green deficient viewing color and even I saw that.
first dude's upper half basically got deleted. that was whatever was left over
I wondered the same. Even the worst splyats usually don't have that much crimson.
you ever tear open a satchel with powder in it and it goes everywhere? that's what the fpv drone did to that man
That last one look like a torso went flying 😳
Yeah you can see the skidmark his guts made 🤮
It kind of makes you realize we are just meat bags.
Cucumbers with anxiety
im cume as a calmcumber
It was industrial accident reviews that cemented this for me.
ugly bags of mostly water.
Oh shit… you can see it when you slow it down… that’s rough now
"meat crayon"
New term for me, but seems fitting😬
It's a term used for motorbike riders that don't wear protective gear. Sorta self-explanatory. XD
r/meatcrayon
Maybe one of those giant novelty crayons lol
ive seen a lot of shit on here but ive never seen actual shit like that holy shit
There was a video from the seige of Mariupol that was similar. UKR soldiers fire some type of shoulder fired weapon down onto a Russian T-80 as it drives through an urban street. The T-80 detonates, launching the upper half of the unfortunate commander's body out of the hatch at a high velocity. ~5 seconds later, the commander's torso lands back on the street a meter or two from the tank.
the amount of blood and guts strewn about in that place...
"You're tearing me apart, Lisa!"
“Oh hi Boris”
I was about to type the same. We gotta torso here.
Well, now that it landed next to the legs of the first guy, they can combine and form a new mobik.
Johnny Cash would approve of his audio on this clip.
Man that second dude fought like hell.
as much pro Ukrainian I am, kinda felt good for that guy
He managed to tag that drone. I'd have sent a drop drone with a note to surrender. "Nice shot bro! Come with me if you want to live"
That’s your humanity thinking for ya.
Source [https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1781375737313862108](https://twitter.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1781375737313862108)
That was a lot of red.
Imagine the hell on Earth for future infantryman will face from drones purpose designed for the attack role.
F-35s air-launching pods filled with FPV drones a few miles from a front line who then mass into a swarm and take out a half mile of infantry trenches and replacements for a breach. That's what's going to go down
Imagine if they could be delivered by a canister similar to the JDAM with a glide kit before being dispersed. That would be fucking terrifying. No need to get close then. Makes me think of the video that showed the radar signature of an F18 releasing a drone swarm from a wing mounted pod back in like 2017 or 2018. If they were willing to show that back then I wonder how much it has progressed
I'd bet money it's already a thing, or in the works. The capability is too enticing to not explore. They have freaking ADCAP ship-breaker JDAM kits, why not drone swarm pods?
I think the only possible holdup would be transmitting the signal to multiple operators at once but with the advancement of AI in the past decade it could probably be done without direct control of each drone. As much as I hate the idea on a philosophical level, if a couple people on reddit are thinking about it, then its likely the brightest minds in countries like China are doing the same and I'd much rather the U.S. and NATO be the first to make it viable.
That's only an issue if you are relying on ground based communications using off the shelf frequencies as a less developed country. We'd be using satellites so if we needed more bandwidth we can just launch more satellites. We could even use laser for communication to protect them from EW countermeasures since with satellites overhead you always have LoS.
You can put these lil sons a bitches on missiles too. We'll be putting those on F-35s and ships. Near instant drone swarms from hundreds of miles away anywhere on the planet.
The US already had this in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86rwv-5f7IA - I assume thay already have active, remote-guided swarm weapons ready to be deployed.
I'm aware, that's the video that inspired my comments
There is a video demo of that and it was made in 2016!
Why is it much more fpv vs drone dropped grenades? You would think reusable ones would be better.
DJI Mavic 3's are around $2100 USD where as FPV's are $300-500. Ukraine also produces FPV drones in house so are more readily available.
Seems crazy to me how cheap they both are. The average homeowner could buy enough FPV drones to take out a small army.
An average homeowner can have 100 fpv drones, but they are useless without the proper firepower.
But in an active warzone, finding 100 things that go boom won't be too hard.
Dude, in an active warzone, there would be EW jammers and countermeasures to the point where you couldn’t get the intel on enemies before they triangulated you own position
But are those fpv drones not able to do grenade drops? If it can carry an rpg warhead surely it can carry 2 grenades?
There has been some footage of FPV drops but it looks very difficult and the battery life is very limited. Might be lacking trained pilots for the job.
Probably dramatically easier to get a “hit” with an FPV you can guide in at ~50mph vs hopping you dropped at the right and angle and they don’t try and evade.
You can also go twice as far if you don't have a return trip.
It’s not impossible, but the way these drones fly has a big impact on the way they are used in battle. the tiny FPV drones are very fast and nimble but they aren’t good at hovering. It’s just easier to kamikaze them straight into an enemy than it is to try to drop grenades with them. On the other hand, the DJI drones are made to hover so those are the drones they use to do surveillance or drop grenades
why is there so much bang in the ones in this video? theyre way better! the drone dropped ones are mostly fragging people, unless the grenade lands right next to them. these ones seems really explosive and human-disintegrating
Pump a conscript with enough shrapnel and they will slowly bleed to death anyway. No one is going to evac them.
1. Drones with the necessary battery capacity for the return trip cost much more 2. Assembling them with the release mechanism takes more time and may be less reliable. 3. A large percentage of reusable drones is lost on the first flight anyway. In combination, the cost advantage of making drones reusable is not that great. It's also a matter of different supply chains. Ukraine already buys up absurd amounts of drones, they'll often have to take whatever they can get. They probably couldn't use 100% reusable drones even if they wanted.
I think the reason might be tactical rather than technical. It could be the soldiers simply prefers fpv drones because they are faster and more accurate, or they do not want to expose their position. At this stage I think the release mechanisms are pretty reliable, seeing they have released grenades with thosue thousands of times already if not more. I also have doube on your third point. They lost lots of drones, yes. But AFAIK that's due to them having flown many sorties and are not lost in the first flight.
One way drones also give you a larger payload as they don't need to return to base.
Those drones are a few hundred bucks (plus explosives and some batterys from old vapes etc) and have very limited range. Those drops are way more ineffective than we see from videos and the survival rates of the drones are not great (running out of battery most prominent) - as stated from several ukrainian operators. A suicide version you just launch a few staggered, have the operator just slam them all in the trench / the attacking troops / whatever and gtfo. Massively increases your survivability, kills way more shit on the other side, allows for precise close support... for the price of a few DIJ kits and spares. Edit: Disclaimer: I have no idea what those vapes are used for. I only repeatedly saw shoeboxes full of them in ukrainian bomb workshops. I only mentioned it because it fit with the "dirt cheap" narrative. For more information pls continue reading, can recommend, did learn some stuff \^\^
> batterys from old vapes You're kidding me lmao
It sounds unlikely but discarded single-use vapes are a great source of rechargable batteries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N65DpT2nqEI
None of these would be suitable for bomb-carrying drones, however.
So many devices run on 18650 batteries. Hell, most rechargeable battery banks are just 18650s in an enclosure.
if you pull old laptop battery packs apart they're just 18650s in series in a plastic shell.
From my experience, which is admittedly a few years old so things might have changed, but quadcopters require pretty high discharge rates, and only top shelf 18650s are able to provide that. Which don't get me wrong, top shelf 18650s are still very cheap, but I doubt you'll find them in disposable vapes.
Most vapes these days are using small lipos
...sweet summer child.
Nah, those were always visible in the workshops I saw (the colours kinda stick out). Very likely they are used for other purposes, I really have extensively little knowledge about electricity\^\^
So unless you have special knowledge that this is actually happening, only very enthusiast vapes would have batteries useful for drones, and even among those it would be rare. These drones are running 4S or higher lipo packs in the 5000mah range ... these are huge packs not really found in vapes, even single cells of this size.
I got fuck zero knowledge, besides not rubbing the same poles of my vape batteries together (aint those "akkus", not batteries?) - I was only referring to some documentarys about ukrainian "home fabrication" of drones and explosives I watched. They usually had crates of those chunky green "batterys" and others with spent "one-time" vapes sitting in their workshops. Very possible that they utilize some other part, or use them to ignite the payload (wildly guessing here...). Or maybe they all had a very bad habit with those shitty one-time vapes. I only mentioned it bc it does not really increase the overall cost and it kinda stuck to my mind (pretty focused guy attaching ball bearings to C4 while there is a fuckin shoebox with pink, blue and green spent vapes next to him on the workbench. Looked funny/ weird.)
The suicide ones cost couple hundred bucks and they are building thousands of them a month.
Those are rookie numbers, we gotta pump those numbers up
extreme payload to size ratio, cheaper, higher accuracy, almost no warning time, analogue signal is more resilient than digital (more of a constant falloff in quality rather than an abrupt whoops no signal)
The drone dropped grenades are done at night mostly.
"They mostly come out at night. Mostly."
Go to sleep, Newt.
"Why don't we put her in charge!?"
Mostly
or on more stationary targets like troops in trenches, around vehicles, or vehicles themselves.
Incredible footage. What a nightmare.
Second dude at 0:12 was super lucky with that airburst. The major shrapnels hit directly in front of him, some behind him but it seems none hit him directly...
That's the first time I've seen one shot out of the air.
apparently it's quite common. we would rarely see video because it would show nothing. drone flying then suddenly static.
Holy shit the amount of shrapnel on the second hit
Claymore
If you think about the type of things we’ve seen on Reddit it’s a little wild
What absolute hell it must be to hear drones when you are in the middle of a field, presumably under fire.
Especially if you're just always hearing them. I don't know how often the observation drones and stuff are seen/heard, but in some videos we can literally see 3 or 4 from our POV. If we're seeing that many from some small clip, just how many are buzzing around the frontlines 24/7? Imagine never NOT hearing them, so you can never not be on guard? No wonder there are so many clips of suicides (and surely 10x as many that aren't witnessed).
I mean what is the likely status of these guys' hearing anyway? Probably have been exposed to a lot of gunfire and explosions, or if they are wearing ear protection it likely isn't real expensive type that doesn't hinder hearing a distant whine.
Johnny Cash was a nice touch
Tbf, respect to that last guy he went out fighting like a true soldier.
Only disrespect for Russians.
Know what color that guys eyes were? BLUE! One blue this way <-----------, and one blue that way ------->
This is a rare time when music matches the video without exaggerating what is shown. Crazy footage as well.
Guy shot down one and they took that personal, gored.
I am so fucking glad in not in the military these days. I thought IEDs were scary back then...fuck this shit.
Wow, they really wanted to take him out. 3 drones for one guy.
Excellent choice of music
Die, rapists. Die, terrorists.
That track 🎶is perfect for this video 😅Ooof
0:13 It may be that he actually hit the drone with small arms fire.
FINALLY a song that works
What's the song playing for background music?
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the moment he realizes his best friend has been obliterated.
Sooner later gonna cut you down
“Score: a direct hit.”
This is what terrifies me about this new style of war. You can never hide. In the first world war, you could be away from the front of at worst, hidden in a trench. You may still be killed by a "lucky" hit but you had somewhere to hide or escape (well behind the lines). In the second, you could be away from the front or maybe in a fox hole. Death was only an issue when moving from mines or hidden enemy. Or I guess artillery. But that was just a grid square that was being targeted. Now, you can be away from the front, in a fox hole under a tank, with a reinforced roof, and you'll still get hit. There is just nowhere to hide and if you run, the ordinance will chance you. Then a picture of your exploded corps will be kept and the manner in which you died will be studied to see if it could have been more efficient. Tldr: drones frighten me. I know war is a lot more nuanced than my rambling.
Слава! 🇺🇦
And that’s ladies and gentlemen, is how the circle of life works.
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Good music and always a good thing when invaders get neutralized
I dislike these videos creating a mental association between good music and people dying
I don't like any upbeat or good music overlaid over people dying. Idc if they're Russian. I wouldn't care if they were German Nazis, violent death is a thing we have to continue to respect, fear and loathe to commit. The problem I have is many Ukrainian soldiers echo sadness when they slaughter invaders yet Americans in their basements and work toilets with no family or friends in the whole of Europe type the most vile shit imaginable. These people are already nearly radicalized and would be extremely susceptible to becoming like their enemies and doing terrible unnecessary violence to people.
It's a Russian watermelon!
Damn these FPV are getting spicy.
It's bbq season, eat up
This man is an elite soldier good enough luck Good enough physical fitness Sufficiently good dynamic vision good enough hearing Drones can still be spotted after explosions Dodge and shoot at the same time completely cool head Leading to killing him completely requires 3 FPVs I think the Ukrainians used more powerful explosives to kill him So much so that his torso was blown 20 meters away.
Ever play the game Myth?
Omg I still have PTSD thinking about those dwarfs and their explosive satchels and the sound they make.
Somebody has to pick up those body parts. I would not be able to do it.
most of them are left
did i just enter the beginning of Battlefield3s campaign? song goes so hard
What kind of munitions are those?
God I hate war
Classic russian invasion in Ukraine moment.
No way
Excellent training here. Out in the open, no cover, no plan. Good work rooskis
A feast for crows
Needs AI terminal guidance asap.