Posted on 01/24/2024 3:43:08 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian forces are contending with Ukrainian "gamers" using first-person-view (FPV) drones across the front line against Russian strongholds, a top Russian official has said, as uncrewed vehicles gain an ever higher profile in the 23 month-old war.
Ukrainian unmanned vehicle operators carried out a "continuous raid" on Russian positions for several days at an undisclosed location along the front line, said Dmitry Rogozin, former head of the Russian Space agency, who is now a Moscow-installed official in the annexed Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine.
"In four hours, 24 FPV drones flew to the stronghold of only one of our volunteer battalions," he said in a post to Telegram on Tuesday.
"This is a new type of artillery—high-precision aerial art," Rogozin added. "It will gradually replace conventional cannon and rocket artillery, since it is much more accurate and cheaper, and the recording of target hits is visible to the operators of these UAVs."
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It’s the new warfare. Many countries are developing them and adding them to their arsenals.
Zeepinglist!!
Now it’s gamers!
Bubushkas throwing potatoes aren’t enough!
The Ghost of Kyiv disappeared!
I am guessing that Russia or Iran will be making a bunch of autonomous hunter-killer drones to protect against stuff like this.
just a newer form of weapon that has traditionally not been used, but will be used in most future combat situations.
you are going to end up seeing huge swarms of ai powered drones where the idea is that an enemy cannot down them all.
Putin told his troops to pack their parade uniforms.
zElensky didn't tell his returning Azov POW heroes to pack their parachutes.
It gives me the heebie jeebies, watching the video from some of these drones. Poor dumb grunt humping it across a field and you get a ring side seat as the drone approaches zaps him. Like field mice and hawks on both sides.
What Ilyushin Il-76 doink?
There has been a huge increase in the use of weaponized civilian drones. It started on an amateur basis in 2022 but has multiplied through 2023.
Both sides are doing it but it seems Ukraine is now using them in vast numbers. They are expendable munitions.
Kyiv in 3 days!
I thought you all liked him because he rode bears?
Yep but there is also the risk they could be hacked and come right back at you. I'm glad I'm too old for combat, infantry and armor has never faced such opposition.
When I see videos of Russian and Ukrainian solders trying helplessly to hid from these new weapons, I can't help but to feel sympathy for their plight and the hopelessness of their situation.
All so corrupt old men can fight for who gets to sit on the thrown of rubble and bones.
I sure hope the US military in on top of this new reality.
The problem with autonomous hunter-killer drones is that heat/radar sensors will be expensive, especially those sensitive enough to lock on to FPV drones. They will also have to carry their processing with them.
The FPV ones use humans for the back end of their sensors and “processing” power. Their targets also arent as tiny and elusive as the hunter-killer drones.
In this case the offense has significant inherent advantages.
Better option I think is signal jamming. Im pretty sure this can be improved. Big area jammers are not so good, they tend to be big targets for artillery/HIMARS. Small point defense ones may be better, so every vehicle can have one.
From 15,000 feet to the ground in Belgorod in 20 seconds!
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