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Russia is now deploying FPV drones equipped with flamethrowers to drive Ukrainian forces out of the forests by spraying incendiary mixture.
X ^ | King Chelsea

Posted on 09/02/2024 6:15:37 PM PDT by hardspunned

Other outlets say this is a Ukrainian drone.

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KEYWORDS: drones; fire; friedukies; killkillkillforpeace; mic; spammer; ukraine; war; welfarewar
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If you’ve watched the day to day battle, you know this is a war of tree lines. Rather than multi million dollar planes, this is a potential wonder weapon for both sides.

Looks too “War of the Worldish” for me.

1 posted on 09/02/2024 6:15:37 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned
Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

2 posted on 09/02/2024 6:20:11 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

” Smell of napalm in the morning “


3 posted on 09/02/2024 6:23:35 PM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. " )
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To: hardspunned
Fire !

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

4 posted on 09/02/2024 6:26:21 PM PDT by OldHarbor (strained statutory arguments, appeals to inconsistent history, reliance on out-of-circuit authority)
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To: hardspunned

I’m not saying it was aliens...but


5 posted on 09/02/2024 6:26:42 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: piroque

6 posted on 09/02/2024 6:27:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: hardspunned

The amount of senseless killing that this administration has encouraged is staggering.


7 posted on 09/02/2024 6:30:44 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

They’ve never batted an eye about it.

The Harris/Biden/McConnell walk up music:

https://youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU?si=jckyHbxjD7TridLN


8 posted on 09/02/2024 6:38:59 PM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: JonPreston

Madness!!

Too many treat war as just a video game.

The vast majority of very young men, on both sides, who are maimed so horribly, don’t want to be suffering in these insane battles.

Just following orders from old men, at desks, far from the front.


9 posted on 09/02/2024 6:44:58 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: hardspunned

Whether this is Ukrainian or Russian technology… it has potential and bears watching for developments,


10 posted on 09/02/2024 6:53:42 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.”
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At some signal, terrorists NOW in the US can use the power of arson in our forests against us.


11 posted on 09/02/2024 7:02:07 PM PDT by Does so (Our Zoo-Animals are Safe--For Now...! 🇺🇦.....)
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To: JonPreston

Biden, Zelensky, and Putin, all 3 three.

Its another NWO exercise at wiping out as many white males as possible for no good reason.


12 posted on 09/02/2024 7:03:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: House Atreides

Yep. I assume you watch the same endless “tree line to tree line” battle updates I do.

Why put an APC of your best assault troops in near certain death by Uke drone jeopardy when you can do this?

What are we talking, a five gallon aluminum tank of napalm on a thousand dollar drone?

If you have a square field surrounded by four tree lines, burn the first and the other three would self evacuate.

That’s nasty business in this war, right there.


13 posted on 09/02/2024 7:15:39 PM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

14 posted on 09/02/2024 7:24:22 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: JonPreston

The desperation is reaching its peak.
I still would not be surprised if someone in the NATO side, us, doesn’t sneak in a nuclear tipped missile to supplement The Ukraines desperation.

Former “advisor” to this administration commented lately that they will supply every means to The Ukraine to be able to “win” this war.
That is how delusional these people are.
That advisor was on Fox News and made those comments


15 posted on 09/02/2024 7:51:35 PM PDT by crz
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To: hardspunned

First, they are not FPV drones. FPV drones are the small drones the fly into things with bombs attached or some times use to drop grenades on things. This is more like an airplane drone.

This video is the best story I have seen on this tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA0BAcntunU&t=116s

Suchomimus always does a good job to dig through the twaddle to find the true picture of the battle on the ground. He shows that this was in Russian held territory so it was a Ukrainian drone.

A short video, I hope you like it.


16 posted on 09/02/2024 7:56:38 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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I still would not be surprised if someone in the NATO side, us, doesn’t sneak in a nuclear tipped missile to supplement The Ukraines desperation

Putin and Lavrov have already calculated that desperation will set in.

They publicly announced last week they have changed their nuclear doctrine and they will assume that any such attack from Ukraine is really an attack from the USA.

Given that the US has no functional President at this moment, a neutered Congress, and is catatonic with woke activism, the risk of WWIII is very high.

17 posted on 09/02/2024 7:57:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

The nuclear doctrine did not just change last week. It is now not MAD, it is launch on anticipation. Has been for some time now.
But your correct in the respect that they would, lay the catastrophe at the USAs feet. The old “Who did that?” “We had nothing to do with it!” Won’t work.
The point I make is that the “advisors” within this administration are mentally deranged enough to think these things are actually viable.

In short..as above, the nuclear doctrine is now preemptive. Has been for a while. Like you mentioned. The Russians have stated that they may strike first if they even suspect they will be hit.

That is where we are at this point.


18 posted on 09/02/2024 8:19:55 PM PDT by crz
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To: hardspunned
What are we talking, a five gallon aluminum tank of napalm on a thousand dollar drone?

This is an $1100 drone with two extra batteries, a charger and a cute little kit to clean the camera. It weighs about 8 ounces and if you are lucky might carry a couple more ounces.

https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Mini-Pro-Controller-Mini-Drone/dp/B0CNTZX2Q1/

If you order it now Amazon will get it to you on Thursday.

Five gallons of napalm weighs 30 pounds not including the container. Drones that will carry 30 pounds are huge, far more sophisticated and cost many, many thousands of dollars.

19 posted on 09/02/2024 9:30:55 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: hardspunned

They’re Ukrainian, not Russian. When I first saw the video some hours ago, I was horrified. But those thermite armed drines are not as bad as they look:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/09/02/dragonfire-flamethrowing-drone-burns-up-russian-positions/

“Rather than staying in one place, the moving drone spreads the product of the thermite reaction along its flight path as it burns. This is not likely to cause casualties. The droplets of molten iron fall like a sprinkle of white-hot rain, but anyone in a bunker or covered trench will be safe and even in the open troops in helmets and body armor are well protected, so long as they do not make the mistake of looking up.

What the thermite rain will do though is set alight any flammable material it falls on. After a dry summer, crops and vegetation burns easily and the thermite spray leaves hundreds of thousands of tiny fires in its wake. As the video shows, some of these spread and join up to create larger conflagrations. The combined effect of smoke and flame may present more of a problem to occupying troops and force them to abandon the position.”


20 posted on 09/02/2024 9:34:53 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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