Ukraine's drones

Interesting documentary about Ukraine’s drone building and use.

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Military doctrines are being re-written weekly as Ukraine finds new ways to employ drones.

In other related news, the low cost “FrankenSAM” missiles the UAF have cobbled together have worked so well that Uncle Sam has asked for the specs.

US supplier is charging 50,000 for drones worth 500 :thinking:

Dog bless America.:money_mouth_face:

Not our dog (French and doesn’t like other people’s loud noises)

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It’s woof at the top.

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Ukraine will be buying up all the stock of Ali Express etc. as they’re not worried about the drone’s warranty, are they?

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Problem with those is if the battery runs down they return to their take off point :open_mouth:

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I see that they were using used vape batteries to power the grenade release mechanism. Re-use at it’s best.

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I’m sure that can be disabled one way or another.

Yes you can turn off “return to home”. :smiley:

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Interesting to compare and contrast the very long term military planning described in the above article with the much more responsive creative applications of technology described in the following vivid piece of frontline reporting (pay wall removed)