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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OK. And??
“And for Putin himself, you prefer him topless, on horseback.”
That would be the resident Kremlins who swoon over him.
I was recently told of reports that Ukraine planned to produce 1 million small drones mostly for military use.mmThey have been very creative with their use of military done capabilities.
“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.”
The Russians have tried drone jammers to no avail. The Ukrainians simply flip to a different frequency and finish the attack. In fact the Ukrainian EW capabilities is proving to be better than what the Russians have.
Ukraine has neutralized Russian GPS jamming.
Ukraine has neutralized Russian counter drone jamming.
VIDEO - Apparent Ukrainian drone strike
Ukraine ‘blows up Russian Black Sea oil terminal’
The Telegraph
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Jan 25, 2024 4:15 a.m. EST
1:18 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6NamT75ycs
A Russian oil terminal on the Black Sea has been blown up in an apparent Ukrainian drone strike.
Video footage from the scene showed a drone flying towards the Tuapse oil depot in Russia’s Krasnodar region on Wednesday night.
City mayor Sergey Boyko said there were no casualties and the fire was extinguished at 4.53am local time (1.53am GMT).
The prominent Baza Telegram channel said explosions were heard in the city before the fire started at the Rosneft depot as anti-air defenses attempted to engage the drone.
Ukraine is yet to officially claim responsibility.
It has attacked four other oil depots in Russia this month, including one in St Petersburg more than 700 miles from Ukraine’s northern border.
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