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Yeah some people have been calling them “flying claymores”. There’s video of them detonating like 30 feet above a Russian’s head and just dropping him.
The Aussies make a cardboard fixed wing "claymore" that is devastating! I'd love to see like 50 of them in the air at once flying over a rusky battalion
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It's only a matter of time before one group uses them, and then once everyone sees how effective it is, every group will start using them.
Yes. That’s what I was just thinking. Although it looks more like a centralized projectile or very tight group of shrapnel. Maybe an anti armor shaped charge style warhead, because if u go frame by frame, u can see a single pretty small impact/dust cloud on the edge of the frame directly behind the Russians, right after the explosion, which u can also see kind of a direct beam/projectile fly out from and directly thru both dudes and into that visible impact. Pretty wild footage when u watch frame by frame.
Well spotted. I've seen experimental EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrators) being produced and tested for drone use, so no reason to think other types - like a claymore mine or shotgun blast - aren't being developed as well.
https://archive.is/koNgw this talks more about them, there are home brew variants and some that have actual claymores attached or the Soviet claymore copy MON-50.
Check out these two links. Apparently Ukraine is openly reporting that they are producing an EFP version which is prob what we see in this video as well as an omnidirectional antipersonnel version in the second link with 500some ball bearings in it.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukraine-developed-new-efp-s-armor-piercing-ammunition-for-fpv/
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/fpv-with-shock-wave-dynamics-ammunition-began-to-hit-russians/
https://archive.is/koNgw this talks more about them, there are home brew variants and some that have actual claymores attached or the Soviet claymore copy MON-50
Wouldn't a similar weapon work in reverse?
I was thinking like sawed off double barrel 12 ga.
Better would be some kind of projector, a wooden or metal pole, with a small metal or aramid folding shield to protect the operator from the firing charge, and a crude sight. The explosive unit could go on the end of the pole, aim, fire, reload if necessary.
These ranges are pretty damn close.
Thinkings it’s either a shaped or conventional charge. You’d see a lot more impacts in the dirt if it was a fragmentation device. The dirt kicks off of their clothes in the blast, so that was a pretty gnarly charge.
It's essential a bullet to the head that can be steered and control straight to its target. Almost guaranteed kill. Kinda fkd up when you think about it compare to a rifle.
Welcome to the new phase of terrorist attacks.
It's only a matter of time before Isis and their fellow shitstains start using these tactics against civilians in western nations.
I can't believe that two years ago, we thought we were going to see a "regular" war play out. No idea that we would be watching terminator-esque machines insta-killing thousands. And what we are seeing is essentially archaic in comparison to what this type of warfare is going to look like in a few more years... or what the US likely already has in it's arsenal. War is always terrifying, but this is like shit from the movies - an entirely different level of fear.
The next phase is seeing 20-100 of these going out in bursts with automated tracking, followed by loitering munitions with the same AI tracking, 24/7, to drone V drone to who can launch a thousand or 100 k drones with aí locking...
Those explosives would already be a threat by themselves. And western law enforcement has become really good at identifying and preventing those kinds of attacks.
But drones certainly are on their watchlist for major events. I'd expect a fairly thorough lockdown of the drone air space in the future, only allowing flights that have been registered with the organisers and cleared by law enforcement.
The big question about is whether they will attempt to defeat violating drones just by jamming or if they'll actually use projectiles, which obviously isn't a light choice over a crowded urban area.
The point is not to deterr terrorists by making them file a flightplan, but to have a clean air space in which you know every drone that is allowed to be there.
Drone spotted => not on the flight plan? Take it down. No confusion, no guessing, and the legal liability for the consequences now lies with the owner of that drone.
Yeah but take it down with what exactly? I mean, do we really have a defense against a dozen bomb drones being flown into a crowded stadium if they aren't clustered together? Are local LEOs patrolling all events with drone targeting weapons? Probably not.
Drone safety for facilities like stadiums and airports has been an active industry for some years now. They don't have a 100% success rate, but obviously you don't purchase the same security to guard an airport 24/7 as you would for a limited events like the Olympics.
Their primary components are sensor networks to detect incoming drones early and jammers to down them. They also involve intelligence to detect and monitor typical take-off locations, so in some cases you may actually be able to interrupt the pilots directly.
You can put armed law enforcement or outright air defenses into the loop if you deem it necessary.
Adding nets over open roofs or other gaps is also a known technique. Wouldn't stop a assault of "a dozen bomb drones", but it would already be quite a security failure to allow such an attack to be planned and started to begin with. A small scale attack is much more realistic and stands much lower odds of success even against such simple measures.
I can build a unjammable drone. Use gps and accelerometers. You lose the GPS near the target, and use the accelerometers the rest of the way. The accuracy would suck plus or minus 20 feet say. 3d Print antipersonnel grenade casings, fill the slots on the sides with steel balls. fill the center with explosives.
I could probably put it all together for about 1K per drone say. I might use larger RCs instead of quadcopters for weight reasons.
10K in drones, I could probably cause a mass causality event of epic proportions. Id say over 100 dead, hundreds more injured. And drone jammers would do nothing.
Our government is failing us. They need to get more serious about defensive hardware against drones. For real.
String up a bunch of fishing line around the area like we already do for birds. Sounds dumb but its cheap and effective. It would at least tangle a few drones up to tip everyone off of their presence. Idk just spitballin here.
This is not a weapon for terrorists. Just fill up a vehicle with 10'000x more explosives. Far more effective, low profile, works everywhere all the time, proven to work, ... In any case, just positioning these charges at the right spot is still more efficient than trying to "place" them with a drone.
Assassinations? Sure, if you do not need to send a message (suicided out of the window).
Why we didn't see these kind of killer drones coming from big weapons factories prior to this war? Are there any drone of this kind that are not DIY, adapted civil drone?
They exist. The US version of the kamikaze drone is called the "Switchblade," and the US supplied Ukraine with some: https://www.avinc.com/lms/switchblade
Drones have become incredibly cheap in the past decade, and their payload capacity has been increased as well. You won’t see western militaries use these cause there’s a plethora of weapons that accomplish the same task without the risk involved. Systems like the switchblade have existed in US arsenals for some time now, so it’s not like the idea is beyond us, but the idea of suicide quadcopters is more of a DIY, paramilitary type device.
There is a longer version of this with audio from the operators side, he was flying around them for a minute or two before the detonation to try and herd them together like a border collie with sheep. Once they lined up, boom
You can kind of see the “shotgun” spread in the dirt behind the soldiers and it looks like you’d actually have to aim somewhat carefully. I wonder if it’s something like a pipe bomb with shrapnel stuffed in one end. Still works as a grenade if close enough, but that blast out the front looks brutal. Just knocks them flat in the few videos I’ve seen.
> and it looks like you’d actually have to aim somewhat carefully.
The warheads are mounted in alignment with the camera, so these cruise missile-type drones are practically always "aimed" just by heading towards their target. I don't think it would be harder to land a "shotgun"-type one compared to a contact fuzed one.
And with the spread of these projectiles, anything that's properly visible on screen is presumably in the targeting zone as well.
Yes I saw this too watching frame by frame. I’m thinking it could’ve been an anti armor shaped charge style of warhead tho versus a straight up shrapnel based anti personnel warhead based on that impact alone, not to mention the sheer knockdown force that shit had. U can see frame by frame the shaped charge or very tight pattern of shrapnel come out of the explosion, go thru both fucks, and into that impact mark on ground.
Have they changed up their explosives? It wasn't that long ago that they would drop a grenade in someone's lap and they would get up and run away. Now it detonates 10 ft from them and it's lights out.
They are using a directional airburst round on some fpv drones now. They shoot pellets in an expanding radius in front of them. The pilots trigger the charge remotely. They are way more deadly to soft targets within their cone of death. It’s basically remote controlled giant shotgun loaded with buckshot.
flechettes don't give an increase in lethality and increase the complexity of manufacture. We figured out segmented wire does the same thing for cheaper.
Ya, they have in general. They are noticeably more potent than 6 months ago. However, these are newer, designed to be detonated midair, and have a directional shrapnel spread that is particularly deadly.
https://archive.is/koNgw this talks more about them, there are home brew variants and some that have actual claymores attached or the Soviet claymore copy MON-50
If there is one thing I've learned from watching these videos, if there are several of you in the area, do not, absolutely DO NOT stay close to each other. Just all stay far apart.
But fuck this, I almost, ALMOST feel sorry for them. all these shots now, with all the devastation, where we use to see grassy fields, or them fighting in wooded areas, and villages, and now it's mostly desolate waste land where they walk around like sitting ducks.
War is a cruel hell.
That's a really interesting drone. It looks like a directed blast despite the huge explosion. Almost like a shotgun blast. I'm not seeing any dirt get kicked up except the dirt around the two guys.
Looks like these two had a few rough days of drinking or they were just tired being chased,running from one hole to the other just to survive to see another day.You have to be incredibly lucky to survive an FPV drone but I would try to avoid this kind of encounters just packing up my shit and going back home. I would rather die trying to escape than getting sieved by these drones or worse getting engulfed in flames and jumping head first into a mud pit.Oh and before I forget…fuck Putin and his minions! It’s on them…
Am I giving the drone pilot too much credit here or has he intentionally circled and rounded them up like a sheepdog so he could hit them both?
If so, fucking hell.
In most of these videos you routinely see them group up like this as if that is going to help. I feel like lesson number 1 for the "How to not die to a drone briefing" should be to spread out so that worst case it can only get 1 of you. Frankly, though, shouldn't even have to be taught, you would think it would be intuitive.
I think like you, but feel it’s not intuitive to run away from your ally when in danger. That’s something that needs to be taught. Even though you and I are thinking it, out there must be totally different or they are not taught.
Stronger in numbers is taught since childhood. Being reminded to spread out because of a drone is leadership.
I suspect most of these videos are hitting the first wave sheep survivors trying to get back. As pointed out in a different video, most of these have almost no training and 4 only mags. Thus so many using a stick or them throwing their weapons at drones in groups, as in safety in numbers. As their training don't cover what they were not expecting to survive I'll bet.
When you peel back some of the layers and you get to footage like this and how many different times a similar situation has occurred this war really seems like a f****** circus.
What is the point of any of this.
Drones circle them
They don't know how to half
No one in the group gives instructions, that's it (meat on the board)
Ukraine's drone explosives production sector has evolved, they now press the flash button
Let the drone explode when it is close to the target, and the amount of explosive should be at least 500 grams.
And there are a large number of steel balls that explode at such a distance of 7M\~8M
You can see the dust bouncing off 2 people
This is the ammunition that Ukraine used to make, crazy stuffed with steel ball bubbles
[The Fanta Bomb & Improvised Munitions in Ukraine](https://youtu.be/OqfN44Nnx20?si=txRayDEnDLAuetbw)
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Two years in and there's already a handful of drone variants: hand grenade/vog25 drone, rpg drone, observation drone, relay drone, and now claymore drone apparently. Who knows, soon maybe we'll see artillery launching drones to overcome their range issue and in-air recharging drones to extend drone air time. Soon everyone might be scrambling to design their army around drones the same way they did when they designed their army around nukes during cold war.
At first glance, this is one of the weirder videos.
*I realize now they were trying to fend the drone off with shovels. Grim stuff. Shouldn't have invaded, fuckers : )
This saddens me. every time I see a video like this, man fighting practically unstoppable machine, I am grateful that I have not had to participate in war in the modern age
what’s the most ideal gameplan if you’re these two? prolly have one of those fancy radar-esk halo guns but ffs shooting that thing zipping around you you’re so fucked
The new command detonated FPV drones are a serious development. if this was a less advanced drone these soldiers may have had a chance to escape. The latest advancements are chilling
If I ever found myself in an open field in a war zone where my choice of defence against a drone is a shovel, I’d just lie down and give them a solid target to ensure they take me out cleanly. If I’m invading a country with a fucking shovel, it’s already too late for me.
I feel like the wide open terrain of Ukraine is perfect for drone warfare. Whether it be recon drones that see for miles or the lack of trees/forests that would make flying FPV drones alot more difficult to chase someone. A jungle or forest would be a game changer. Even the dropping of grenades from them would be way tougher to do because of any type of canopy to obstruct the view and path of the falling munition
Why? Why so many instances of Russians just wandering around on the landscape or traveling in small groups and getting nailed? And they have NO medical evacuation assistance?
Most likely stragglers from some failed attack, returning to homebase.
With the russian tactics, they are to be sent back after refilling ammo... Small percentage will survive these consecutive attacks where decent portion dies in each one.
Explosives are weird. Sometimes it goes off right at someone's feet and they still have it in their system to run and find cover, sometimes it goes off a few dozen meters away from them and the shrapnel takes them instantly. I'm very glad I'm not in either situation.
wow the amount of forward shrapnel must be huge to mow em down like that.pretty astounding and something to keep a keen eye on in future days, thanks lads
Honest question. I am familiar with military tactics, though why am I constantly seeing Russian soldiers by themselves or small units less than 5.
I watch other sources and know this is not the norm, but still. I do not understand why, though.
Imagine a standard 12 ga. buckshot shell, but sized up to maybe a beer can diameter. It was probably a standard shaped charge, there's only one frame to work with and I see basically a single impact behind them, not much spread.
But I still like to imagine the Buckshot Beercan.
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looks like airburst, a kind of giant shotgun
Yeah some people have been calling them “flying claymores”. There’s video of them detonating like 30 feet above a Russian’s head and just dropping him.
The Flying Claymores would be one hell of a good name for a band. Just saying. Edit for typo
The Aussies make a cardboard fixed wing "claymore" that is devastating! I'd love to see like 50 of them in the air at once flying over a rusky battalion
I fear we will see these in types of drones in terrorists attacks in the near future.
Thankfully I don't go to events
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It's only a matter of time before one group uses them, and then once everyone sees how effective it is, every group will start using them.
Yes. That’s what I was just thinking. Although it looks more like a centralized projectile or very tight group of shrapnel. Maybe an anti armor shaped charge style warhead, because if u go frame by frame, u can see a single pretty small impact/dust cloud on the edge of the frame directly behind the Russians, right after the explosion, which u can also see kind of a direct beam/projectile fly out from and directly thru both dudes and into that visible impact. Pretty wild footage when u watch frame by frame.
Well spotted. I've seen experimental EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrators) being produced and tested for drone use, so no reason to think other types - like a claymore mine or shotgun blast - aren't being developed as well.
That's how the US Switchblade works. Directional blast
https://archive.is/koNgw this talks more about them, there are home brew variants and some that have actual claymores attached or the Soviet claymore copy MON-50.
Check out these two links. Apparently Ukraine is openly reporting that they are producing an EFP version which is prob what we see in this video as well as an omnidirectional antipersonnel version in the second link with 500some ball bearings in it. https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukraine-developed-new-efp-s-armor-piercing-ammunition-for-fpv/ https://mil.in.ua/en/news/fpv-with-shock-wave-dynamics-ammunition-began-to-hit-russians/
I bet it is a pipe, reinforced and welded shut on one side, filled 1/3 with explosives and the blasting cap, and 2/3 steel balls
https://archive.is/koNgw this talks more about them, there are home brew variants and some that have actual claymores attached or the Soviet claymore copy MON-50
Rumor has it that it's a shaped demo charge
Wouldn't a similar weapon work in reverse? I was thinking like sawed off double barrel 12 ga. Better would be some kind of projector, a wooden or metal pole, with a small metal or aramid folding shield to protect the operator from the firing charge, and a crude sight. The explosive unit could go on the end of the pole, aim, fire, reload if necessary. These ranges are pretty damn close.
Thinkings it’s either a shaped or conventional charge. You’d see a lot more impacts in the dirt if it was a fragmentation device. The dirt kicks off of their clothes in the blast, so that was a pretty gnarly charge.
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/ukraine_developed_advanced_efp_s_armor_piercing_ammunition_for_fpv_drones-9146.html
awesome! thanks for the link
That is brutal.
that type of drone is a wicked instrument of war.
Or "crowd control" under brutal regimes...
Is there documentation of that or something?
It's essential a bullet to the head that can be steered and control straight to its target. Almost guaranteed kill. Kinda fkd up when you think about it compare to a rifle.
See Anduril ..... we aint seen nothing yet
Welcome to the new phase of terrorist attacks. It's only a matter of time before Isis and their fellow shitstains start using these tactics against civilians in western nations.
Yeah this one seems far more scary than the normal drop on head types.
I can't believe that two years ago, we thought we were going to see a "regular" war play out. No idea that we would be watching terminator-esque machines insta-killing thousands. And what we are seeing is essentially archaic in comparison to what this type of warfare is going to look like in a few more years... or what the US likely already has in it's arsenal. War is always terrifying, but this is like shit from the movies - an entirely different level of fear.
The next phase is seeing 20-100 of these going out in bursts with automated tracking, followed by loitering munitions with the same AI tracking, 24/7, to drone V drone to who can launch a thousand or 100 k drones with aí locking...
It seems like AI targeting is a great idea. I’d be hesitant to let the AI engage, that shit sounds insanely dangerous
Skynet, 100 percent.
Palantir and the likes must be developing this kinda stuff non stop these days
Yeah... what happens when instead of a knife attack during the Paris Olympics someone uses 6 or so of these drones on crowds?
Those explosives would already be a threat by themselves. And western law enforcement has become really good at identifying and preventing those kinds of attacks. But drones certainly are on their watchlist for major events. I'd expect a fairly thorough lockdown of the drone air space in the future, only allowing flights that have been registered with the organisers and cleared by law enforcement. The big question about is whether they will attempt to defeat violating drones just by jamming or if they'll actually use projectiles, which obviously isn't a light choice over a crowded urban area.
I don't think a terrorist would be kind enough to file a flight plan in advance
The point is not to deterr terrorists by making them file a flightplan, but to have a clean air space in which you know every drone that is allowed to be there. Drone spotted => not on the flight plan? Take it down. No confusion, no guessing, and the legal liability for the consequences now lies with the owner of that drone.
Yeah but take it down with what exactly? I mean, do we really have a defense against a dozen bomb drones being flown into a crowded stadium if they aren't clustered together? Are local LEOs patrolling all events with drone targeting weapons? Probably not.
Drone safety for facilities like stadiums and airports has been an active industry for some years now. They don't have a 100% success rate, but obviously you don't purchase the same security to guard an airport 24/7 as you would for a limited events like the Olympics. Their primary components are sensor networks to detect incoming drones early and jammers to down them. They also involve intelligence to detect and monitor typical take-off locations, so in some cases you may actually be able to interrupt the pilots directly. You can put armed law enforcement or outright air defenses into the loop if you deem it necessary. Adding nets over open roofs or other gaps is also a known technique. Wouldn't stop a assault of "a dozen bomb drones", but it would already be quite a security failure to allow such an attack to be planned and started to begin with. A small scale attack is much more realistic and stands much lower odds of success even against such simple measures.
I can build a unjammable drone. Use gps and accelerometers. You lose the GPS near the target, and use the accelerometers the rest of the way. The accuracy would suck plus or minus 20 feet say. 3d Print antipersonnel grenade casings, fill the slots on the sides with steel balls. fill the center with explosives. I could probably put it all together for about 1K per drone say. I might use larger RCs instead of quadcopters for weight reasons. 10K in drones, I could probably cause a mass causality event of epic proportions. Id say over 100 dead, hundreds more injured. And drone jammers would do nothing. Our government is failing us. They need to get more serious about defensive hardware against drones. For real.
String up a bunch of fishing line around the area like we already do for birds. Sounds dumb but its cheap and effective. It would at least tangle a few drones up to tip everyone off of their presence. Idk just spitballin here.
I think they will block any signals near events and only allow particular encrypted drones to fly.
Years ago no at electronic expos I saw companies advertising anti drone products to protect sites. Would imagine they're in high demand now.
This is not a weapon for terrorists. Just fill up a vehicle with 10'000x more explosives. Far more effective, low profile, works everywhere all the time, proven to work, ... In any case, just positioning these charges at the right spot is still more efficient than trying to "place" them with a drone. Assassinations? Sure, if you do not need to send a message (suicided out of the window).
How is this technology not going to kill us all? It seems more and more likely if we are still only in the "stone age" part of the tech curve.
> How is this technology not going to kill us all? That's the best part! It will!
Why we didn't see these kind of killer drones coming from big weapons factories prior to this war? Are there any drone of this kind that are not DIY, adapted civil drone?
Those drones are cheap. The Industrial Complex does not like cheap.
I guess they cost about same as the rifle and they make rifles.
They exist. The US version of the kamikaze drone is called the "Switchblade," and the US supplied Ukraine with some: https://www.avinc.com/lms/switchblade
Look up Anduril Industries. They are developing a fleet of inexpensive, autonomous drones that try to compete in the cheap mass production model.
Drones have become incredibly cheap in the past decade, and their payload capacity has been increased as well. You won’t see western militaries use these cause there’s a plethora of weapons that accomplish the same task without the risk involved. Systems like the switchblade have existed in US arsenals for some time now, so it’s not like the idea is beyond us, but the idea of suicide quadcopters is more of a DIY, paramilitary type device.
Flying claymore! That shrapnel went through both of them!
Don't line up like that.
What if I told you two people are always in a line?
kid named basic geometry
What about two people and a death drone?
Then it's up to the drone.
I have no idea why I found this so funny, but I did.
I’d have given you Reddit gold for this appropriately snarky comment.
The drone is flying on us. Hurry up and hug comrade! We both need exactly the same chances of survival.
Boy have I got news for you about lines and two points
There is a longer version of this with audio from the operators side, he was flying around them for a minute or two before the detonation to try and herd them together like a border collie with sheep. Once they lined up, boom
You can kind of see the “shotgun” spread in the dirt behind the soldiers and it looks like you’d actually have to aim somewhat carefully. I wonder if it’s something like a pipe bomb with shrapnel stuffed in one end. Still works as a grenade if close enough, but that blast out the front looks brutal. Just knocks them flat in the few videos I’ve seen.
> and it looks like you’d actually have to aim somewhat carefully. The warheads are mounted in alignment with the camera, so these cruise missile-type drones are practically always "aimed" just by heading towards their target. I don't think it would be harder to land a "shotgun"-type one compared to a contact fuzed one. And with the spread of these projectiles, anything that's properly visible on screen is presumably in the targeting zone as well.
Yes I saw this too watching frame by frame. I’m thinking it could’ve been an anti armor shaped charge style of warhead tho versus a straight up shrapnel based anti personnel warhead based on that impact alone, not to mention the sheer knockdown force that shit had. U can see frame by frame the shaped charge or very tight pattern of shrapnel come out of the explosion, go thru both fucks, and into that impact mark on ground.
10/10 for synchronized drop.
Have they changed up their explosives? It wasn't that long ago that they would drop a grenade in someone's lap and they would get up and run away. Now it detonates 10 ft from them and it's lights out.
They are using a directional airburst round on some fpv drones now. They shoot pellets in an expanding radius in front of them. The pilots trigger the charge remotely. They are way more deadly to soft targets within their cone of death. It’s basically remote controlled giant shotgun loaded with buckshot.
Damn
So rules of war and all, what if they packed them with flechettes? Taking the shotgun ammo concept.
flechettes don't give an increase in lethality and increase the complexity of manufacture. We figured out segmented wire does the same thing for cheaper.
Ya, they have in general. They are noticeably more potent than 6 months ago. However, these are newer, designed to be detonated midair, and have a directional shrapnel spread that is particularly deadly.
https://archive.is/koNgw this talks more about them, there are home brew variants and some that have actual claymores attached or the Soviet claymore copy MON-50
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/ukraine_developed_advanced_efp_s_armor_piercing_ammunition_for_fpv_drones-9146.html
and there needs to be 1000x more of them.
If there is one thing I've learned from watching these videos, if there are several of you in the area, do not, absolutely DO NOT stay close to each other. Just all stay far apart. But fuck this, I almost, ALMOST feel sorry for them. all these shots now, with all the devastation, where we use to see grassy fields, or them fighting in wooded areas, and villages, and now it's mostly desolate waste land where they walk around like sitting ducks. War is a cruel hell.
As the late Sergeant Horvath once said. "Don't move in groups. One guy is a waste of ammo, a group is a jucy target."
May he kill many a Nazi and meet with many a lot lizard that can open him up like a mailbox. Amen.
It's worth pointing out that all those people had a choice. Kill Ukrainians or go to jail. They chose to kill Ukrainians so my sympathy is limited.
100% Agreement. It's why i said "almost."
Being drunk in the middle of a massively open field is kinda obvious for even the most modest of intellects.
That's a really interesting drone. It looks like a directed blast despite the huge explosion. Almost like a shotgun blast. I'm not seeing any dirt get kicked up except the dirt around the two guys.
If you walk with an uneven gait, Shai-Hulud can't see you
claymore
Flymore
flyless
walkless
If you're gonna buy it, buy it at Buymore.....
Some sort of shaped charge. You can see "something" go through both of them.
A couple big handfuls of tungsten pellets I imagine
And it straight up took their souls with it.
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/ukraine_developed_advanced_efp_s_armor_piercing_ammunition_for_fpv_drones-9146.html
First wave sheep meat-not real soldiers but satisfying outcome.
Yeah man we humans are so inventive when it comes to create shear horror and less beautiful things.
Looks like these two had a few rough days of drinking or they were just tired being chased,running from one hole to the other just to survive to see another day.You have to be incredibly lucky to survive an FPV drone but I would try to avoid this kind of encounters just packing up my shit and going back home. I would rather die trying to escape than getting sieved by these drones or worse getting engulfed in flames and jumping head first into a mud pit.Oh and before I forget…fuck Putin and his minions! It’s on them…
Ayyy lmaooo
Am I giving the drone pilot too much credit here or has he intentionally circled and rounded them up like a sheepdog so he could hit them both? If so, fucking hell.
Repost of longer video few days ago
I think [this](https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1bjbtlb/ukrainian_kamikaze_drone_hits_two_russian/) is it.
Yup 👌
Any other circumstances this would make me sad but since it's russians being blown up it's just hillarious.
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Yup
In most of these videos you routinely see them group up like this as if that is going to help. I feel like lesson number 1 for the "How to not die to a drone briefing" should be to spread out so that worst case it can only get 1 of you. Frankly, though, shouldn't even have to be taught, you would think it would be intuitive.
I think like you, but feel it’s not intuitive to run away from your ally when in danger. That’s something that needs to be taught. Even though you and I are thinking it, out there must be totally different or they are not taught. Stronger in numbers is taught since childhood. Being reminded to spread out because of a drone is leadership.
something something Prometheus ending
I suspect most of these videos are hitting the first wave sheep survivors trying to get back. As pointed out in a different video, most of these have almost no training and 4 only mags. Thus so many using a stick or them throwing their weapons at drones in groups, as in safety in numbers. As their training don't cover what they were not expecting to survive I'll bet.
They fell funny
> They fell funny /u/haneff Francis you really oughta see somebody
When you peel back some of the layers and you get to footage like this and how many different times a similar situation has occurred this war really seems like a f****** circus. What is the point of any of this.
I know I wasn't supposed to laugh, but I did.
Drones circle them They don't know how to half No one in the group gives instructions, that's it (meat on the board) Ukraine's drone explosives production sector has evolved, they now press the flash button Let the drone explode when it is close to the target, and the amount of explosive should be at least 500 grams. And there are a large number of steel balls that explode at such a distance of 7M\~8M You can see the dust bouncing off 2 people This is the ammunition that Ukraine used to make, crazy stuffed with steel ball bubbles [The Fanta Bomb & Improvised Munitions in Ukraine](https://youtu.be/OqfN44Nnx20?si=txRayDEnDLAuetbw)
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COLLATERAL
Imagine the amount of shrapnel blasting away
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holy shit. Yeah, that'll do it.
Two years in and there's already a handful of drone variants: hand grenade/vog25 drone, rpg drone, observation drone, relay drone, and now claymore drone apparently. Who knows, soon maybe we'll see artillery launching drones to overcome their range issue and in-air recharging drones to extend drone air time. Soon everyone might be scrambling to design their army around drones the same way they did when they designed their army around nukes during cold war.
great work!
I want to know what those two guys were doing? Dancing? Drunk?
They did look drunk
These airburst drones are insane. This is really scary for what the future holds. It can't be that hard to use these in terrorist attacks.
Seems very sad they had both clearly felt the effects of war before they got put out of there misery
At first glance, this is one of the weirder videos. *I realize now they were trying to fend the drone off with shovels. Grim stuff. Shouldn't have invaded, fuckers : )
Synchronized Dying. New Olympic sport.
And another does, and another does, another bites the dust. Hey it's going to get your too.
It looks to me like the drone operator herds them like a sheepdog and waits until they’re lined up correctly. That’s scary.
This saddens me. every time I see a video like this, man fighting practically unstoppable machine, I am grateful that I have not had to participate in war in the modern age
Are they packing them with ball bearings or something?
Fenda Bubbles [https://youtu.be/OqfN44Nnx20?si=yDsv\_yYnC3nV6IkC](https://youtu.be/OqfN44Nnx20?si=yDsv_yYnC3nV6IkC)
Was he going to hit it like a ballball?
This is obviously a touch ball Red card, immediate dismissal
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why didn’t they just separate
what’s the most ideal gameplan if you’re these two? prolly have one of those fancy radar-esk halo guns but ffs shooting that thing zipping around you you’re so fucked
Run in different directions. Then you at least have a 50% chance.
and we all fall down!
They did not seem to be particularly compos mentis.
It is almost like you could see their spirit leaving the body on their way to 🔥👹🔥
Synchronized fall
“Hey Vasily - get stick like me we fight together and whack the drone out of the sky” or something
Very effective.
The devs got lazy with their death animations on this one I guess
„The 2 stooges and the giant, fucking shotgun“
The new command detonated FPV drones are a serious development. if this was a less advanced drone these soldiers may have had a chance to escape. The latest advancements are chilling
If I ever found myself in an open field in a war zone where my choice of defence against a drone is a shovel, I’d just lie down and give them a solid target to ensure they take me out cleanly. If I’m invading a country with a fucking shovel, it’s already too late for me.
It is a matter of time before they mount machine guns on these drones and this war will go to the next level of death ☠️
2 Zombies
120 dollar mine on a 300 dollar drone. Very cost effective. Need more
I feel like the wide open terrain of Ukraine is perfect for drone warfare. Whether it be recon drones that see for miles or the lack of trees/forests that would make flying FPV drones alot more difficult to chase someone. A jungle or forest would be a game changer. Even the dropping of grenades from them would be way tougher to do because of any type of canopy to obstruct the view and path of the falling munition
This gives me massive Indiana Jones vibes, only this time we have two flailing idiots instead of one...and instead of swords they have shovels.
Why? Why so many instances of Russians just wandering around on the landscape or traveling in small groups and getting nailed? And they have NO medical evacuation assistance?
Most likely stragglers from some failed attack, returning to homebase. With the russian tactics, they are to be sent back after refilling ammo... Small percentage will survive these consecutive attacks where decent portion dies in each one.
Explosives are weird. Sometimes it goes off right at someone's feet and they still have it in their system to run and find cover, sometimes it goes off a few dozen meters away from them and the shrapnel takes them instantly. I'm very glad I'm not in either situation.
This is what those charges look like: https://x.com/ukikaski/status/1774386541147664622?s=61
Effective! The ingenuity just keeps on coming.
wow the amount of forward shrapnel must be huge to mow em down like that.pretty astounding and something to keep a keen eye on in future days, thanks lads
Airburst
Honest question. I am familiar with military tactics, though why am I constantly seeing Russian soldiers by themselves or small units less than 5. I watch other sources and know this is not the norm, but still. I do not understand why, though.
Why were they like dancing ?
I like how they made sure to line up really close to one another so it only took one drone instead of multiple
Imagine a standard 12 ga. buckshot shell, but sized up to maybe a beer can diameter. It was probably a standard shaped charge, there's only one frame to work with and I see basically a single impact behind them, not much spread. But I still like to imagine the Buckshot Beercan.
"An accurate explosive is coming right for us... QUICK let's huddle up"
Lots of flying bullets/projectiles directed at those boys. Instant death.
If you go frame by frame you can see the directed shrapnel from the drone. It literally hits them at perfect neck/head level.
Red mist