Today is a good day
Holy hell, it’s like they had all the time in the world. A proper Sunday stroll.
Those poor drone operators are going to be chasing this dragon for the rest of their careers.
I think it might be enough to change one’s orientation. Bombersexual.
the poor guy cant find a target that isnt already burning! xD
Seems like this particular base had zero security forces to watch their planes.
What’s interesting to me is it seems like they were using a ‘chain’ of drones. One goes in and another is watching as BDA, then that one goes on it’s mission, while the next is doing BDA, etc.
That’s pretty brilliant. I wonder how many operators they were using per base.
BDA is damage assessment? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_damage_assessment
Yeah! So they use the one drone to destroy something and the next drone is looking to see what damage was done. If the damage is consistent with what they want, that drone then will go onto it’s next target. If the attack wasn’t substantial damage, then the drone can augment that previous mission to achieve that desired result.
That’s honestly fucking awesome. It’s straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, but fucking real.
In the flyover about a minute into the video it looks like a couple of the bombers had tires laid out along their wings. I think both of those planes were burning.
Didn’t Russia try this tactic months ago to try to defeat image recognition on autonomous drones? It certainly appears that idea still isn’t worth a hill of beans…
Is that… a drone with a freakin’ grenade launcher on it’s head?
@LaFinlandia Damn they are good.
I’m surprised the pictures were so clear. Isn’t the reason it’s usually all grainy/distorted because of electronic interference? Was there just no anti drone electronic warfare equipment running there?
There’s mention elsewhere that these drones made use of Russias telephone network, which could have easily been used to feed this video back to Ukraine.
Drone jammers would be targeting the radio frequencies used to control the drones, which operate at a very different frequency. If the video was indeed fed back via a cellular network then any jammers would have to be jamming that, which would impact all cell usage in the area, not just the drones.
damn, just makes it all even more impressive.
Next up - Blanket permanent turning off of all cell towers within 100km of a military base.
The lack of defense, urgency, security personnel, seems like they just weren’t prepared at all. This base is fairly far inside Russia so maybe they just didn’t prepare any defenses against these small quadcopters.
I heard they are just using many-kilometers long fiber optic cables now. Can’t be jammed, only tangled. I expect they can fall back on radio or autonomous control if the cable is lost
They do, but that’s not how these attacks happened. That would require people to be there, and Ukraine said everyone involved in the attack was back in ukraine before it was executed.
BIG OOF
Rip that one drone that got melted by the flame.
