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TIL a single T-72B3 costs less than $2M.
It began ages ago, Ukraine aren’t the first to use them in war. They were used extensively in Azerbaijan/Armenia before then.
But Ukraine took it to another level by the extent to which they’re using drones including naval drones.
They are using everything from large military drones, improvised jetski-powered suicide drones, tiny FPV suicide drones, and everything in between.
I dunno, I’d say if anyone’s taking it to the next level it’s the US. They’re currently making unmanned wings of drone jet fighters controlled by a manned aircraft in the area, as well as these big drone airships that can launch hundreds or thousands of small drones. Ukraine is just kind of using existing drone technology in obvious ways. It’s certainly noteable in terms of the growth in use of the technology, but not really pushing the boundaries that much.
Except maybe the water drones, they’re pretty novel. I don’t remember anyone talking about doing that before they did it.
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Your drones are very impressive, you must be very proud.
Black Mirror was a documentary.
We’re living the worst parts of both black mirror and Idiocracy.
When Not Sure proved that toilet water made the plants grow, the people embraced him and looked to him for leadership.
In our reality, people continue to send death threats to healthcare professionals and try to run them out of town. And countless death threats to officials.
We are MUCH worse than Idiocracy.
I feel like that isn’t an accurate price comparison
This is the best summary I could come up with:
KYIV — Sergeant Yegor Firsov, deputy commander of a Ukrainian army strike drone unit, sounds exhausted in a voice message he sent to POLITICO from Avdiivka, an industrial city at the center of intense fighting on the eastern front.
Facing an enemy with superior numbers of troops and armor, the Ukrainian defenders are holding on with the help of tiny drones flown by operators like Firsov that, for a few hundred dollars, can deliver an explosive charge capable of destroying a Russian tank worth more than $2 million.
The FPV — or “first-person view” — drones used in such strikes are equipped with an onboard camera that enables skilled operators like Firsov to direct them to their target with pinpoint accuracy.
A typical FPV weighs up to one kilogram, has four small engines, a battery, a frame and a camera connected wirelessly to goggles worn by a pilot operating it remotely.
It can carry up to 2.5 kilograms of explosives and strike a target at a speed of up to 150 kilometers per hour, explains Pavlo Tsybenko, acting director of the Dronarium military academy outside Kyiv.
Battlefield experience has led the Ukrainian government to shift its preference away from conventional military drones, which are miniature fixed-wing aircraft with a long enough range to strike targets inside Russian territory.
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If only we could be sure that $400 drones will only ever be used to kill tanks, and never to kill neighborhoods …
I’m waiting for the panic that will happen at the first political assassination using drones
Several years ago, before COVID, the Japanese government was on high alert because someone parked a drone on the roof of the Prime Minister’s office. Small traces of (harmless) radiation were detected on the drone and no one knows who put it there or why.
It’s entirely possible someone just flew it around near Fukushima, brought it to near the PM’s office, and then parked it on the roof as a political statement
After the war, the Ucranian flag will have a drone painted in the center.
Isn’t this happening today in Ukraine?
How do you “kill” an inanimate object
With good inantimate objects.
With a $400 drone.
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