How Ukraine's grenade-dropping drones changed war | War on Tape | Daily Mail

[@otmossampacado1550]

Drones are the new pickup Toyota in warfare

[@golavoda2644]

😂😂😂

[@BillKillerz]

The funny thing is..... we are at the ''biplane era'' of drone warfare....

[@rowshambow]

Yeah. These are just single drones. In 10 years when we're all running away when we hear what sounds like an approaching bee swarm it won't be so much fun

[@DS-xg9kf]

Omg! How true!

[@dandyandy642]

@@rowshambow You don't need swarms of them and when they drop bombs they are completely silent.

[@rowshambow]

@dandyandy642 every military in the world is literally working on swarms of loitering munitions. And i didn't say anything about sounds when they drop bombs. I said hearing them approach.

[@MetalsirenIXI]

idk about that, Drones were made in the 90s and used all in the 2000s. We are almost 30 years of usage.

[@davids1inwestholl45]

"The type of drone used to film weddings"...............Now, they've been re-purposed to film BBQ's and funerals."

[@MiguelDLewis]

I see what you did there.

[@jwadaow]

@@MiguelDLewis Joked about atrocities.

[@democracybacksliding]

@@jwadaow yeah this feels like a troll

[@pacus123]

The US knows all about droning weddings ...

[@echivers960]

@@jwadaow

[@paulbarthol8372]

$80,000? American industry could get that price down to $800,000

[@Mark4Jesus]

Ikr Dictators get the best discounts.

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

@@Mark4Jesus Why isn't the US offering those discounts to Russia, then?

[@dohabandit]

We already did... we bought that for 800k, 720 to the guys that run the show remotely from their homes in the EU, and 80k to the drone team to buy their parts they need...

[@saruflan5441]

You don't really believe this nonsense right? Ukraine is almost devastated...changed war, my ass...

[@zuephillips3450]

fun fact the only reason people know that the US military has over paid is because that information gets released by the DOJ when the military goes after contractors for fraud. every 1000 dollar screw the American military has paid for has been refunded.

[@inebriatedengineering6288]

Yes, let's learn about the most recent war technology on a "VHS tape". So raw, much real.

[@Michaelkroh]

Yeah that made absolutely no sense. They transferred the DJI Mavic’s MP4 files to their computer from the microSD card only to then… output it to a VHS tape? They must have been out of Betamax 😂

[@0Logan05]

😂..Anyone supporting Ukraine is simple like that…

[@inebriatedengineering6288]

@@0Logan05 Says the guy who's comment is indistinguishable from an AI bot, and communicates with cartoon faces.

[@ioeee7563]

If you are chased by a drone, you turn on your left blinker, then turn right.

[@LegionInfanterie]

bro :) they already use AI locking systems on custom build FPV drones

[@eXe09]

It suck to be an BMW driver without blinkers :/

[@fireboltaz]

i've seen footage where the dropped a grenade on a wounded combatant (russian). He was able to swat away the grenade (because he was looking up at it). There is a difference between k***ng your target and out right m****ring your target. This action violates Geneva Convention for attacking wounded soldiers.

[@DraggonCanoe]

Obviously you have never driven is the U.S.,,,, No driver ever uses a turn single.

[@baddogcustoms7496]

@@DraggonCanoelol it’s because we all forgot to refill our blinker fluid 😂

[@Science4Real]

Drones are now more than just flying devices; they’re the "all-seeing eyes" of the modern battlefield! From dropping grenades to hunting tanks, they don’t just bring destructive power but completely reshape traditional military tactics.

[@620multistrada]

The grenades aren’t American they are the Russian F-1 type

[@thirtythreeeyes8624]

@@mcchickenenjoyer4357 They're using every type of grenade they can get their hands on.

[@TemplarX2]

A grenade cares not who made it.

[@GreybushCounterpunchBoxing-z7d]

OMG, SOMEONE, SOMEONE, THEY SAID IT WAS AN AMERICAN GRENADA!!!!!!!

[@jefferycsm]

@@GreybushCounterpunchBoxing-z7dgoes to their credibility, genius.

[@josiah9008]

At least he didn't call it an AK47. 🤣

[@PotatoflakeJake]

Ur not going to get double the distance by adding twice the battery cause the extra battery adds significant weight.

[@olsmokey]

Range is also determined by transmission strength, receiver sensitivity, and antenna efficiency. Battery size only determines flight time.

[@WarAuthority]

@@olsmokey weight causes more stress requiring more power thus there's diminishing returns on range regardless of the other factors.

[@Vsor]

lol, it't like a much more forgiving version of the rocket equation.

[@kevincleveland763]

@@olsmokey Flight Time x Air Speed = Range

[@kevincleveland763]

I’ve never flown a drone but I have flown helicopter and you use more fuel on takeoff and achieving optimum altitude then you do maintaining airspeed and altitude. It is therefore conceivable even with the deficit caused by the weight of the extra battery and any externalities that you can either double or nearly double your range by adding a battery. But I’m not a drone expert.

[@moneyman2595]

Drones can also be used as spotters for artillery

[@DohuuVi]

Scary on how warfare has evolved to this point.

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhh.............. BOOOOOOOOOOM

[@dohabandit]

@6:24 that part on the top looks like a 3D printed housing that likely has a directional antenna / waveguide inside. The smaller antenna is likely a GPS/GLONASS/Magnetometer. They have it higher up so it isn't in the path of the antenna inside the radome. Inside the circular radome housing is likely a gimbal mounted parabolic antenna that autotracks the ground station to provide best signal quality and longest range. This diameter is about what you would need to house a 2.4-5GHz antenna inside. How do I know? Because that is what I would do... haha...

[@SerratedPVP]

Is that a mid-engine vette?

[@SHERMA.]

i think it contains a plethora of rotating CP antenna's that it rotates to receive and relay the best signal possible. also, drones with multiple CP antenna's can use triangulation to determine if their signal is being hijacked

[@dohabandit]

@@SerratedPVP 2021 C8 2LT Z51...

[@WarAuthority]

A lot of this information is already old, and the russians have their own drones now doing the same thing. there's also jamming on both sides and anti-measures for drones.

[@UppityWhiteMan]

Remember when we used to see this sort of thing in sci-fi movies and how frightening it was.

[@judymorrell8879]

I really hate technology

[@kwein]

War is hell

[@tomandrews1615]

powerful

[@ferencszabo3504]

Exactly! And those who prevent peace like the west are criminals!

[@stevenhull5025]

Living where I live is hell too

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

@@stevenhull5025 Rotherham?

[@RavenAdventwings]

"War isn't hell. War is war, and hell is hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse."

[@RynaxAlien]

Robotic warfare no longer sci-fi

[@MiguelDLewis]

I doubt we'll see a T-100 or a Tachikoma anytime soon though.🤔

[@RynaxAlien]

@@MiguelDLewis If humanity wasn't so stoopid, ignorant and violent we would be space traveling by now. But we still have a lot of voters who believe that Earth is just 6000 old and "pro-lifers" who support guns laws causing school mass shootings and billion farm animal torture

[@Blinp182]

The Daily Mail produces some seriously good mini documentaries,

[@miked451]

@@wulfracheno silly, that’s on RT! 😂

[@magistic345]

​@miked451 yeah those videos I linked say otherwise, look at your 'heros' 😂😂

[@FedericoLucchi]

Sarcasm?

[@Jonjs99]

by stealing content

[@youruncledarnell]

Blimp: you mean gnat-zie propaganda right?

[@RokebyBay]

Reporting on cutting edge technology whilst claiming you recorded them on a VHS cassette 😂

[@tinglish1159]

Do you think they expect you to believe the footage is literally captured on a VHS tape, which is then recorded and edited into the video, or is it more likely they are using the VHS cassette as a framing device? Have you never seen a video in your life?

[@RokebyBay]

@@tinglish1159have you encountered sarcasm before. If not, welcome to the internet

[@Shaunsheep8188]

I thought showing a VHS was weird. Many younger people would not have a clue what it was.

[@limabravo6065]

What cutting edge tech?

[@wooj82]

​@@limabravo6065 Drones

[@ddegn]

15:15 By "hacking" into the drone, they likely just turned on a video receiver. If a drone is using the normal consumer hardware then anyone can receive the signals. Thanks for the interesting video.

[@rubberonasphalt]

If the drone is using an analog video transmitter, yeah its simple. DJI drones use encrypted video tranmission, so not as easy to tune in. But in war, you want to take the drone out, not just watch the video. The "hacking" is actually much simpler. As most drones use between 2.4Ghz and 5.8Ghz radio frequency ranges (For digital or analog video feed, and for controlling drone), you can jam the frequency and nearby drones will literally fall out of the air from losing reception back to the pilot. Similar to how large football stadiums employ jammers above the roof, so idiots with drones can't just fly in and cause disruption.

[@SHERMA.]

@@rubberonasphalt yea ur right. but in the last few months we have seen drones deployed with multiple antenna's accompanied by software that uses triangulation to only deploy its signal in the direction of the receiver. that way the hijacker would also have to be near you to receive the signal too.

[@andrewdavis6012]

Everyone is using drones for everything so what , but glorifying death is just evil .

[@cosmiceye9357]

Wait till you feel it through your own skin what an occupation is then you’ll quickly change how you think about the stigma of death

[@Paul-zf8ob]

It must be stressful having to hide and constantly looking up to stay alive.

[@hansdampf640]

humans have ears... (so i´ve heard haha)

[@NPC_N112]

Скоро сам испытаешь на себе, когда твой сосед пойдет войной на тебя

[@hansdampf640]

@@NPC_N112 and who would that be,any ideas?

[@laaaliiiluuu]

​@@hansdampf640Good luck hearing a drone in an active war zone hundreds of meters above your head.

[@hansdampf640]

@@laaaliiiluuu there is plenty of material on the internet where you can hear it for yourself,you just need to look it up ;)

[@Miss__Understands]

Man, that was really interesting!

[@cosmicdebris2223]

for the russians you mean?

[@LordBikealot]

Very interesting report, thanks, stay safe. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine

[@js70371]

Slava Rossiya from Canada 🇨🇦🤝🇷🇺

[@GTfour01]

​​@@js70371 Don't tell him Ukraine is losing the drone war....

[@Logic6664Boston]

Find this reporters work.... watch it. Worth it.

[@istikagaragesale7118]

This drones are made in China, yet Ukraine always condemns China. Top 3 drone importers: Denmark, Netherland, and US. Most of them go to Ukraine.

[@Luke-wz9wc]

Many countries import weapons from Israel and then condemn them, what is your point?

[@ygreq]

Yeah. So? It's not like China is donating these drones. WTF?

[@serhii3194]

China making profits, on both sides, has nothing to do with "helping Ukraine", so it owns to another dictator nothing

[@ttusko3132]

@@ygreq CHINA oppose all the use of civilian drones in war. These drones are bought by third party from China and they give all these civilian drones and military drones and drone parts to Russia and Ukraine.

[@someguy4487]

How did it change the war? Are the front lines moving backwards?

[@stevenwier1783]

In previous wars people didnt look up and see a handgrenade fall on them miles behind the gunfire

[@UsurperDogheart]

The lines are basically static Vatnik. What’s changed is the maneuverability and dispersion of small/large munitions.

[@someguy4487]

​@@UsurperDogheart since you're so smart, would you explain wtf is vatnik?

[@Tiax776]

You could say the Goliath tracked vehicle / mine in WW2 was one of the first drones. It was remotely controlled and once it got to its target, it exploded.

[@SerratedPVP]

The OG RC-XD

[@ronjon7942]

Great sets of drone content. Brilliant.

[@DJ-oz6ee]

this channel is on another level - outstanding reporting

[@CrimsonAlchemist]

Ukrainians are NOT pioneers. The first drop bombs by commercial drone were used by ISIS in Syria & Iraq. Know your history. There used to be hundreds of videos of it on KZbin, but the media took it all down. They have also been used since 2021 in Myanmar. Bad journalism.

yep uccro fan chanel the crap comes out of this chanel is amzing am em suprized that the american people finaces thes station

[@Britishbandogge]

😂😂😂 the DM team loved your post. They don't even realise. 😂😂😂

[@AxelOlsson-ks2gu]

But didn't care for that expert mumbling his words since there were no subtitles provided.

[@JS-ed2hg]

Amazing how the small drone which I own the exact same drone can carry practically a mortar and the larger ones even carrying RPG 7 heads.

[@janlindtner305]

Længe leve Ukraine🍀❤👍

[@AndrewFaversham]

Lenge leve Ukraine👍👍❤️

[@deadgowr8958]

im just asking where those listings for himars and artillery shells came from

[@ksanghue5340]

When F16 delivered it was a game changer then and, now a drone with a grenade become a game changer.

[@DraggonCanoe]

Very few people can afford an F16, most people can afford a drone. That is why drones are the game changer.

[@ksanghue5340]

@@DraggonCanoe 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thespoiledtexan3904]

My dad was an F-15 Ace fighter pilot for the USAF. When he finished flying, he was stationed at the Pentagon and was tasked with the weapons systems and mechanical engineering on the f-15, f-16, and I don’t remember what else; his job was to crunch numbers and find weaknesses in the air craft, how to make it waaaay better, etc and go before congress to explain to them why they needed to change something and get the funding.

[@thespoiledtexan3904]

@@DraggonCanoe this comment got me. And that is so true. My dad is a retired ace fighter pilot of the F-15, or “F-teen” as my big sister used to say. My mom got a call from my sister’s preschool because she told a kid that was bullying her that, “my dad flies f-teens and he’s gonna bomb your house!” and it made the bully cry ☠️😂.

[@DraggonCanoe]

@@thespoiledtexan3904 Your father was one of the best pilots on earth. I have worked with many of his co-workers and maybe him, and I will state that they were the epitome of professional. Sending a huge salute to your dad!

[@ducknorris233]

Did I miss how they release the drone? The standard commercial drone doesn’t have a button to dispatch anything.

[@adamknight5089]

Next, please do a video on how VHS tape is changing KZbin

[@zigavojska1672]

Why is he using VHS? What did you mean with your comment about youtube?

[@TheEasternFlank]

Very interesting information on Ukraine, thank you for sharing it!

[@davidmcguerty8405]

The Russian army really appreciates learning about all their drone weaknesses.

[@thespoiledtexan3904]

Right?

[@UsurperDogheart]

OPSEC at an all time low

[@gregvanpaassen]

Would like to see the Sypaq Corvo precision payload delivery system ("cardboard drone") in action.

[@ClawsNGloves]

You guys should do a small mini doc with the 414th Madyar's UAV and Drone strike company also the 47th Drone unit is a great choice.

[@speckledjim9895]

DJI must be making a fortune.

[@johnkirk3279]

💙💛Awesome!💙💛Slava Ukraini!💙💛

[@brainworthy]

The next generation of drones will be smaller and less expensive and more lethal.

[@marlenfras5490]

Good reporting. Thank you. Strong Ukraine. Strong NATO. Strong Poland.

lol on which planet yuo leaving keep dreaming just liike the piano man

[@schrimpf]

Weak UK…

[@trqster]

Game changer 💥

[@Murse1992]

What is that rifle at 2:02? I’ve seen and know my weapons… but that looked like a modernized SVD. It even had AK aspects too. What am I looking at?!

[@shaun1293]

Interesting how they’ve got drones carrying 15kgs of bombs whilst the first bombers 110 years ago were pilots dropping a handful of 10kg bombs out of the cockpit

[@stefthorman8548]

difference is, this is basically pin point accurate

[@mrmatt7210]

I foresee a time when every squad of soldiers will have a drone operator or two which can perform both surveillance and air support. This wont take the place of calling in air support, but it will provide some immediate assistance when needed.

[@NovaProduction-ic1ot]

There are many ways to shoot down a drone (shotguns, rifles, machine guns, automatic 30 mm cannons with programed munition, EW, lasers).

[@spartanalex9006]

True, but all of them rely on knowing a Drone is there and then you get into the economic side of warfare where some of those solutions are more expensive than what's being shot. Wars are won in the factory, on the supply line, and in the ledger. You want to avoid wasting funding where possible which means that some of those are only effective at scale that we either struggle or can't with current technology meet.

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

Katanas, slingshots, mud, spit, fecies... the list is endless

[@user-nf7ui7dz1z]

PITA gets too fired up about all the birds that are inadvertently destroyed with systems like that.

[@miguelgameiro8063]

@@spartanalex9006ew is cheap and shotguns shells are too the real question is how you can compete with

[@AxelOlsson-ks2gu]

But not in the middle of the night when they are practically invisible.

[@bdubs8620]

6:39 I question what type of footage is really on that vhs

[@ColinLennard]

Thanks for that.

[@Hajile_Ibushi]

Nice reporting. I'm curious how advanced the fabs have to be to make the chips for these. The technology for these things is open source and they can't be as advanced as the new intel CPUs. The complex parts of the electronics are the ARM cpu's (minimum of five; one main cpu and four for each esc), and the sensors (a six axis chip, a barometer, magnetometer, and GPS). If you can source those locally, you can mass produce them. The source code for the software and firmware for every component are available online. 8:22 Yeah the jamming has become a problem. I've seen Russian platoons rotating in and out while carrying boxes with antennas which i presume to be jammers. If you can simplify the jamming to just "Here's a box, bring it everywhere you go, don't unplug the battery, it's big enough to last you atleast three days, bring it back to me when you rotate out so i can recharge it.". The jammers are cheap, almost every squad has one, and simple enough to be considered idiot proof. 11:16 I'm guessing that drone detector is listening for the 900mhz telemetry it's sending back to the operator (elrs, crossfire), a 5.8ghz video signal, a 2.4ghz video signal for the mavic. Even if you can't decode what they're actually transmitting, you can guess what it is by which frequency it's on. Distance is kinda iffy as the only thing i can imagine it gauging on is signal strength. I'm not sure how reliable that is considering how drastically our own radios can be affected by tilting the radio or how close we hold it to our bodies. I wouldn't rely on it for gauging distance if i'm holding it inside a metal car. 15:18 I'm not sure if it can properly be called a hack. These vTX's aren't encrypted, they're just off the shelf 5.8ghz analog transmitters you see used in large farms, they've been adapted for drone use by removing the large heatsink and just relying on continuous airflow to keep it from overheating. If you have an FPV goggles, you can set it to autoscan to sequentially run through the 40 channels (5 bands, 8 channels each) until it hits a video signal. 17:20 Yeah, these mavics can fly for a long time, but they do it by shaving every gram they can off the frame. I seriously doubt they'll be able to take down a plane because of how flimsy they had to be, you get more damage from hail. This also makes them very sensitive to weight which has a large impact on their flght time. Their range is also halved because they have to come back. An extra battery does help with flight time but that's even more weight it has to carry and you quickly reach deminishing returns as it's not designed to carry a payload. 17:40 These are more like it. You can potentially mount a rocket launcher or guns on that thing, flight time is still an issue but it's a heavy lifter so it can carry more. It's also potentially faster than a kamikaze drone. Flown a heavy lifter and you can really feel the weight through the controls, acceleration is so-so and can't exactly turn on a dime, but it was FAST. Turn off GPS and autolevel to let it lean further forward and floor it. 19:15 That's not going to be much help if the unit is already broken up. The russian are moving in smaller units so they're spread out more and the drones don't have large groups to attach and it's mostly just 1 drone to 1 target these days. 20:00 I can only imagine what it's like to coordinate that many drones. There are 40 video channels, but in practice, you're actually down to 8 if you want these high wattage video transmitters have their frequencies spaced far enough apart to not bleed into adjacent channels. If you take off, and another drone five miles away takes off on the same channel, you'll stomp over each others video. Heck that might be a good way to jam. If you know the direction the drone came from, you can use your FPV goggles channel scanning to find the frequency of the video, mount your own drones VTX on a directional antenna, point it in the general direction of the opposing pilot and you'll likely end up sending a picture of the ground into his goggles effectively blinding him. 21:06 We still don't know what a proper drone unit is going to be. Right now it's a mishmash of DIY drones and scraped together drone operators. If this is going to be adapted by the west, i'm sure it's going to involve specialized drones that cost thousands of dollars each, with a completely specialized (and expensive) supply chain, that will be beyond the reach of a typical military outside of nato. The closest thing the military had to a quadcopter at the time it was developed was the MAV (If you've played BF3, they're the scout drones the snipers carry), they run on gas so they can be deployed in the middle of nowhere for weeks but they're pretty complex machines. The other one that became popular was the hornet which is a palm sized helicopter used for scouting urban environments. Those were EXPENSIVE. I'd like to see if the western military will even integrate quadcopters as is considering how finicky they can be. For comparison, one of the popular radios I've seen is the TX12, (which i am holding right now btw). If someone on the front line of Ukraine needs a replacement, they can potentially bypass the military procurement system and have a civilian buy one online and shipped to them directly. The US military isn't going to accept that, they'll want the entire drone system custom manufactured to the lowest bidder and integrated into their supply chain along with custom encrypted communication protocols, basically reinventing the wheel in the least efficient and costliest way possible. PS: I just found out the US recently gave a 1B$ contract for switchblades. There you go

[@norwegiansmores811]

Next video is probably going to be "Cluster bombs, an amazing Ukrainian invention never seen before (and definitively not a war crime because ukraine is perfect in every way)"

[@acmhfmggru]

New Ukrainian invention: use war prisoners for labor and production in organized camps of detention.

[@spikefunakoshi5667]

@@acmhfmggru Great idea, but of course the Russians would never do that.

[@JimmyJohnson-uq6um]

How do they trigger it to drop the bomb? You only have so many controls on the transmitter.

[@hoosierplowboy5299]

I envisioned the military use of drones back when the Chinese hosted the Olympics and put on an aerial display using them...

[@Mand-jw9gi]

Hey genius...drones were being used by the military way before that, lol.

[@thomasbrand2650]

ISIS was doing this to us back in the 20-teens. Just not at the same scale as Russia and Ukraine.

[@AxelOlsson-ks2gu]

Yeah I recall they stole the technology from the West.

[@stefthorman8548]

@@Mand-jw9gi not this type of hovering drone, which is pretty much single handily pioneered by DJI, way cheaper, then the million USD fixed winged drones

[@ManuelRiesgo-Garcia]

it is curious how you said one thing and how the situation on the ground is...

[@IBRAHIMATHIAM124]

Dji didnt create these drones to be used for war

[@steamon2]

Where did you get that very old tv from

[@AR777bomb]

Chinese tech has advanced so far

[@winstagram1785]

I would add an update to the video with the new fly-by-wire drones. They have a long fiber optic cable attached to defeat EW. Very clever.

[@pathfollower]

Halfway through and no mention of FPV drones. Those seem to constitute most of the successful attack videos I see posted.

[@lancelotkillz]

Fr fr or wire guided cheap Russian drones

[@tbyte007]

@@lancelotkillz The wire guided are not cheap. They are much more expensive, Ivan.

[@thirtythreeeyes8624]

@@tbyte007 Still easily under $1000 and all things considered that's cheap and also they're not just in Russia anything one side is doing you can guarantee the other side is either already using it or they will be within the month.

[@lennart266]

Last months the Ukrainians have unveiled their AI guided drones, which aren't stopped by jammers making wire-guided drones not necessary anymore.

[@pathfollower]

@@lennart266 I didn't realize they had attained that goal. I know they were pursuing it.

[@poppashots994]

Necessity is still the mother of inventions.

[@roadmound429]

Ukraine 🇺🇦 has been the Pioneer in low cost drones’ warfare…

[@schrimpf]

Ukraine has been the pioneer in losing one battle after the other. ..

[@FlorinSutu]

It was Azerbaijan in its was against Armenia.

[@AxelOlsson-ks2gu]

...as if their lives depended on it.

[@Styphon]

Would a thermite grenade need to get into a hatch to deatroy a vehicle, or could it burn through the actual armored top for a kill? 🤔

[@TamasMateffy]

Sure won’t burn trough armour. It’s useful if you place it in the breach of a cannon,it will mess up a breach or a barrel. It could melt outside gas tanks, set them alight. Or it can cause fires in wooden buildings.

[@RetroJack]

Cute set, but they clearly know nothing about VHS tapes if they store them directly on top of the CRT TV.

[@petermgruhn]

I loved that VHS tape lie. It was stunning.

[@vch911]

Antenna on top is a CRPA to counter GPS jamming

[@fourpointzero8315]

Cheapest drone in the video is my dream drone

[@ChrisGWGreen]

It's kinda worrying how cheap this tech really is. You could build 100s of drones for $80,000 from parts offline.

[@citsu_Official]

Hunter bidens got the contract no doubt

[@waty0usay1]

Actually every single soldier could independently operate a grenade dropping drone, quite simple, just need to train the operator.

[@ddegn]

You'd be limited to about 8 drones in the air at once. At least with normal drone hardware. There's about 8 video channels which are commonly used for drone video.

[@CiaranMcHale]

My assumption is that within a few years many of the drones will be flown via AI, and they will become increasingly accurate.

[@acmhfmggru]

​@@ddegnmilitary doesn't use the same channels as civilian...

[@ddegn]

@@acmhfmggru The US military doesn't use the hobbyist channels but the ones being used in Ukraine certainly are using the same channels as hobbyist.

[@acmhfmggru]

@@ddegn no they aren't. Watch more videos about drones in Ukraine

[@chadellett4696]

Why doesnt ever solider carry a $10 jammer 🤔

[@mrgomelonsolaris]

The greatest advantage of drones is that their production facilities can not be destroyed and no large factories are needed. Drones can be produced in a dispersed network of assemblies.

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

All countries involved buy the basic parts from China.

[@michellerobinson372]

Thank you 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@DardaniaLion]

On telegram, I see so so so many videos how these drones with those small bombs are doing so much damage to Russians. It's mind blowing what these drones are doing.

[@Deno2100]

Russians have a lot more drones, and kill a lot more Ukrainians that UAF does. Russia and China are close allies and China provides Russia with literally 15,000 + FPV drones EVERY DAY. Go watch Ukrainian and Russian channels at the same time. The flow of Russia's confirmed kills with drones is multitudes higher than Ukraine. The drones Ukraine used are not sold to Ukraine by the Chinese but are bought by third parties and sent to Ukraine.

[@Kehk-in-a-MiG]

GMLRS only has a four-star rating on Amazon.😮‍💨

[@Warexkin]

Could they not put an Arduino/raspberry pi to run a CCIP? Would probably need a laser range finder, but would increase accuracy ten fold (Continuously Calculated Impact Point)

[@JohnR-gk7ch]

The speed at which Ukraine has developed this technology is astounding! It really places their military at a significant strategic advantage. There will not be a single Russian vehicle that will be safe. That Vampire drone is awesome!

[@ОлегНестеров-ы8ж]

Unfortunately you still don't know about russian drones. Their drone programm is far advanced. They've got variety of loitering munition "Lancet" drones which are a vexes for Ukrainian army and their surveillance "Orlan" drones are masterpieces let alone "Geran" aka Shahed drones which annoy all the territory of Ukraine. Keep in mind that russians spend a lot of money for their drone programm unlike ukrainians which often depend on volunteers So you westerners have to do more to supply ukrainians with all the necessary things to hold the russians from their advance towards your borders

[@stevesandgroper3241]

@@ОлегНестеров-ы8ж Orlan masterpieces? A cheap Canon camera, duct tape, and bottle top are the building blocks.

[@IshmaelAhmed627]

As clever as these drones are, unfortunately for Ukraine, it seems Russia is still winning, they have advanced technology toom Russia has a more bigger military, the west has spend billions in trying to help and now damaging their own economy, they tried hard to damage the Russian economy, but Russia's economy is pretty much stable, Britain's economy has gone down almost equivalent to third world countries, majority of people in Crimea are Russian and don't want to be part of Ukraine, in the unlikely event that Ukraine takes back these regions, they will just massacre the Russian population. Its about time Zelensky agrees to a ceasefire and a deal with Russia. All this begging and grovelling to the west is doing little for Ukraine and hurts the western economy.

[@whoisthis3038]

@@stevesandgroper3241 don't forget a bottle of vodka

[@wiktorpoliszczuk1372]

The problem is that the Ukrainians were not being prepared for the attack of Russians, but for the barbecue on May 9, "And the population rejoiced and applauded the invitation to the barbecue, not knowing that they and their children would be the meat for the barbecue.",,,

[@dafunkyzee]

you know that 80,000 is nothing when you consider the unit is being used on tanks that cost 4 to 5 million to build... there are many guided missiles which run in the 100k to 300k (per shot) and this drone is re-deployable, driving it's price per use far lower than traditional military munitions.

[@AxelOlsson-ks2gu]

You got that right!

[@citsu_Official]

I doubt the soldiers being killed are earning $80000 per year 😢

[@daejavue69]

We are seeing the most primative stage of drone warfare without the structure of AI command its one drone , one operator the future is just around the corner . AI control drones work with the master spotter drone where the spo🎉ter drone selects targets that fed to a group of bomber drones say a swarm of 5 . The operator in connection with Drone command , part of the human loop , who designate targets with info from the spotter which using IA sends each material of the swarm into its target as the others circle the targets . Imagine it as waves of drones with spotters AI as command & control Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦, 🇬🇧

[@jonny-b4954]

Yeah, that'll be BAD. AI swarms are already in prototype stage from the videos I've seen. If you can truly mass produce them, attacks of hundreds won't be an uncommon thing. Add in swarm AI controlling them? All that manpower saved, the potential increased effectiveness etc? It's crazy. They could make them even smaller too. With smaller warheads and just use a 100 of them at a time. I'm invested in Nvidia though, so in a roundabout way, I'll profit from it. It's wild.

[@acmhfmggru]

​@@jonny-b4954you profit, you complicit. Blood in your hands that can never be washed clean. Warmongers get their due reward indeed.

[@fre780a]

An idea: To increase the autonomy of a drone, we can imagine a drone that has a rechargeable main battery, and a non-rechargeable battery made with alkaline batteries. The drone first flies by powering itself with the alkaline batteries, then, when they are used up, the drone drops these heavy and useless used batteries, and continues with its main battery. What do you think?

[@js70371]

SLAVA ROSSIYA from CANADA 🇨🇦🤝🇷🇺

[@flashkraft]

With a 4 sec fuse on the grenade you can hover about 78m above the target and get the grenade to explode as soon as it hits the target. Hard to do with a hand thrown grenade.

[@AndyBoyde]

😮wow 78 m...your some pilot:)the best on here I'd say😮

[@ewingzhao9931]

The most ironic thing is that the manufacturer of these drones is China’s DJI, and the company with the best drone technology is China’s DJI. This is a threat that the United States turns a blind eye to. If the United States and Europe cannot even manufacture such a sophisticated small weapon, how can you believe that American drones can defeat Chinese drones on the battlefield?

[@justso1823]

DJI drones are only used for recon . The Ukrainians use Ukrainian built fpv drones on custom software. The software is actually made closer to home not china.

[@Martsims9]

LOL do you really believe that? Do you honestly believe that simply because a Chinese company makes the most popular "consumer" done they have a commanding lead over the USA in this technology? Everyone is entitled to their opinion and mine is you or I have no true idea what the USA military has BUT we do know they are fully capable of reverse engineering the tech offered by DJI. We do know the USA currently has large unmanned "drones" with FAR more range, flight time and payload capacity. SO, with that in mind I'm not really worried about China and or DJI, especially we there is proven tech that will bring them down.

[@kk-cy3sz]

@@justso1823 They buy all the parts and softwares from Shenzhen and then assemble those in Ukraine. Ukraine don't manufacture drones. They don't have a drone industry

[@amandagrant4331]

US likes to make expensive weapons. In fact, they hate cheap weapons (no matter who makes them)

[@justso1823]

@@kk-cy3sz yes they do have an underground drone industry on a small scale

[@deathski2]

War,war never changes.

[@FR-PL-UA-WARSZAWA]

Ukrainian well trained drones operators don't drop grenades on "moving objects" from several hundreds feet. But from a few pairs of feet only. A 6 kilos AEROROZVIDKA homemade drone with 6 motors and as many grenades costs a small portion of the 12,000 USD you mention.

[@AxelOlsson-ks2gu]

..."a few pairs of feet"..

[@joek511]

I have a Mavic. It's a blast, no pun intended. My son also has one. We've been using them hunting, on the beach...lol

[@robertamann2093]

Russian Federation has the same drones and in larger quantities.

[@amandagrant4331]

DJI drone are civilian products, and you can buy them in many stores. China also sells a large number of drone parts, which are full of Shenzhen electronic market.

[@russhall4064]

Excellent Video. ❤ Thank you Men. R.. Oregon. USA.

[@freiheits_gedanken1336]

Luckily we have counter drone companies like DroneShield that are defending us against drones.

[@AxelOlsson-ks2gu]

Moscow thanks you for that info.

[@freiheits_gedanken1336]

@AxelOlsson-ks2gu do you really think Russia doesn't know about NATO companies and their defence technology? They have a homepage. Everything is public.

[@miskomarkovic3446]

Thank you!

[@bummies1]

u(k)rine soldier or otan / mercernary?

[@iraa9935]

Is this really on tape? Or digitally recorded? Where are the countermeasures? Electronic jamming?

[@RagnarSigurdsson-g8r]

Usually, people really think that some eastern European countries are third world places. Ukraine is much more advanced than anyone thought. Glory to Ukraine!

[@acmhfmggru]

Using American 3d printers to drop Russian grenades from Chinese drones... Yeah, real powerhouse of manufacturing and science here...

[@RagnarSigurdsson-g8r]

@@acmhfmggru : Actually, they have designed and made their own large caliber rifles. Also, they made some vehicles the way they wanted them. So, yes, they are advanced.

[@RichardWagner-hi4zn]

Ukrainians died for working in Poland. While the Poles were in UK and Germany. That is how advanced Ukraine was before the war.

[@acmhfmggru]

@@RagnarSigurdsson-g8r yeah the duct tape and 3d printing was mentioned...

[@RagnarSigurdsson-g8r]

@@acmhfmggru Maybe you should move to Russia!

[@williamlouie569]

Tiny drone can carry more than its own weight?

[@stevenwier1783]

i can also carry more than my own weight. Are you unfamiliar with this concept?

[@RW-ik6ij]

Good video with current relative info & live new footage that other postings don't show. Thx 💙 Good Luck Ukraine!🙏

[@matiusclicarelli700]

Bro, I'm a neutral-anti-war proponent from Australia. And sadly the the time for luck in Ukraine has expired. It expired when Boris intervened with the peace talks in '22. They need more than luck, my friend. I just wish they didn't get bought and corrupted by the US military complex to have them believe they ever had a chance to win this war. It's just sad. Thankfully, the Russians are treating POWS and new Russian citizens like their own brother. I hope this ends soon. 🙏

[@olegmakogon7447]

@@matiusclicarelli700 you comment is dellusional and deceptive. First: there was no peace possibility in 2022, if russia wanted peace, they've could just not invaded and destroyed hundreds of cities and villages. Second: POWs like brothers? All POWs look like skeletons... Beaten and starwing. My friend who had been released from captivity in Oct 2022 was nearly 60kg (~132 lbs) instead of 94kg prewar (~207 lbs).

[@Reid-xw2tb]

How did it change the war by them loosing the war

[@AxelOlsson-ks2gu]

"l-o-s-i-n-g"

[@_djcraig_]

Around @6:30 I have a tape😂 what you record that on lol. Not 80's now pal

[@terrific804]

Russia has their own. Bottom line Ukraine is losing badly.

[@serhii3194]

Both sides loosing badly, dude

[@terrific804]

@serhii3194 Russia, now the 4th largest economy surpassing Germany. Where do you think Ukraine is? Poorest country in Europe and getting poorer by the minute thanks to NATO and the U.S.

[@stevenwier1783]

@@terrific804 Hey man just a quik question for my curiosity, where do you live?

[@terrific804]

@stevenwier1783 ohio

[@walterosadchy9193]

was the video actually on a VHS tape ? 🙂

[@regould221]

The fact that the Russian like to leave the hatches open on their tanks really helps.

[@sanproekt]

You think that you are able to close the hatch during escaping?

[@Strider9655]

Interesting point, the Gatwick invisible drone incident (because 100'000+ people with smart phones didn't capture an image of it) took place around the time Ukraine started using drones in war (the whole thing really started in 2014 btw), and the laws about owning and using drones in the UK came about following that drone incident.

[@ronanrogers4127]

Ukraine is getting absolutely hammered, suffering significantly higher casualties than they did a few months ago. Even with drones, Russia has superiority, they’re more innovative eg now using jam proof optical fibre guidance

[@randomix4023]

So what, to surrender to the conqueror? Did the people of Stalingrand surrendered on WW2? So, neither Ukranians will do. At least, Not before the fall of the last Ukranian drone, but with prices of 1000 to 2000 $ i don't think will it happen. It is a war of endurance. Ukranians lead the way.

[@Jenseduca]

​@@randomix4023Yeah comparing WW2 with this conflict is like comparing an apple to a kitchen sink. Nazis wanted to totaly wipe out Slavic nations while Ukrainian conflict is about the political dominans. Hadn't Ukrainians been so d.m.b they would have kept their country, their economy and their people but now surrender or not surrender it doesn't matter, Ukraine has already lost no matter the outcome.

[@randomix4023]

@@Jenseduca war is politic with other means. Yes, of course the stronger decide. The same way Hitler invaded Poland. It is the same. Shame that you don't see it.

[@glassicblaster]

#NationalizeSpaceX #ElonMuskIsASecurityThreat

[@mddell24]

@@randomix4023 Hmmm Boris J, he could have accepted the "No more" war idea, but nop, somehow with Boris Smarts, war must be maintained. Drones are just moving the war faster to it's end. Everyone knows the winner.

[@neschek358]

funny is, that you can buy that drop device for your mavic 3 at etsy ----