Posted on 07/13/2025 4:44:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
In the battle for Ukraine, the front line is increasingly at a standstill. The reason: rapid innovations in drone technology.
From just a few commercial and homemade drones, which the Ukrainians used at the start of the war to locate invading Russian columns, unmanned vehicles now dominate the battlefield.
Each side has hundreds of them constantly in the air across the 750-mile front line. Drones can lay mines, deliver everything from ammunition to medication and even evacuate wounded or dead soldiers. Crucially, drones spot any movement along the front line and are dispatched to strike enemy troops and vehicles.
‘Wedding drones’ at war
When Russia sent tank columns into Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraine needed to find out where they were headed—and fast.
Enter the humble “wedding drone,” available in stores for about $2,000 and repurposed to scan for enemy units rather than capture nuptial panoramas.
Deployed by enthusiasts acting independently or attached to army units, the drones helped Ukrainian forces, which were vastly outnumbered and outgunned, to know exactly where to deploy to counter Russian arrowheads.
Drones turn deadly
Surveillance drones quickly became a necessity rather than a luxury. Often provided by charity funds, they were used to scan enemy positions for equipment, stores and headquarters. At first, teams of analysts would watch screens of footage stored on memory cards. Within a year of the full-scale invasion, the drones provided real-time images so artillery gunners could direct their fire onto a target.
A cheap and simple tweak made the so-called wedding drones deadly. Tech buffs realized that a simple claw-like contraption, created using a 3-D printer, could be activated from the radio controller by turning on the drone’s light, causing it to release a grenade.
The explosion could wound or kill a soldier or even detonate an armored vehicle
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I am confident that we are not prepared for a chicom terror attack.
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Putin conquer tree line in Donbas! Kyiv in 3 days!
How many drones could we launch from a air craft carrier.
One could be turn into a complete drone manufacturing plant and launch plat form
Subs would be better. Carriers are temporarily floating caskets in the 21st century’s drone warfare age. (not all drones are airborne)
Steven Seagal: "Ukraine was known for human trafficking, organ trafficking, narco trafficking, child sex trafficking, biochemical warfare labs, fascism and Nazism."
pic.twitter.com/7SID0xTdLG— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) July 13, 2025
Absolutely, we are whistling past the grave yard. The base I worked at had 12 tankers within sight of a public perimeter road.
REALLY?
We have something called submarines. I think we have a few right now as we speak not to far from China’s coasts.
Trump, BTW, has asked each Asian ally where they stand in the event Taiwan is invaded.
And everyone here, excpet you and me, is more dialed in to what the latest thing we can learn about Jeffrey Epstein.
Why use something provocative like an Aircraft Carrier or other obvious Naval vessel.
I heard this on a recent podcast; the example was Ukraine’s use of trucks with roofs that opened launching a few dozen drones. What if you used a cargo ship stacked with shipping containers, all rigged with roofs that open, launching hundreds if not thousands of drones at one time.
Now put that cargo just offshore in international waters and launch them on an American City like Washington DC.
I don’t know for sure, I doubt there is any defense for this type of attack.
It would not be a stretch to think someone could launch multiple attacks like this up and down both coasts of the US.
“Hunter/Seeker” from the Terminator.
I was responding to another post. I was speaking of using subs as dedicated drone launching platforms.
You found a picture of Marcus.
He’s a handsome devil.😄
Oh.
I think it is clear that we look at this war as a wonderful opportuinity to test out the latest offensive and defensive weaponry.
How do you fight against a swarm of drone bees, all the size of birds? Thousands descending like locusts into a city or an army on the ground?
I think the answer is pretty obvious, you respond with your own drones, and you wipe the enemie’s command center or real estate that might be thousand of miles away.
If China tries to pull this crap on our soil, that’s fine. We’ll take the hit, but the only response is to nuke their leaders within seconds.
WE saw this in Iran.
Trump, I am sure, has sent messages like the one to Bagdadi of his house, saying without words that we know where you are.
Theh cool thing I think is, unlike the Bushes, Clinton’s, Obama and Biden, that there is alternative to fighting over nothing, and that is prosperity, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
Frogman drones. Underwater ops. Like cutting cables, disarming mines, creating sabatoge. The possibilties are endless.
More likely, their attack will come against the grid. Both Spain and Portugal appear to be test cases.
Just thinking out loud
Tanks have been seen moving “quietly” into downtown Beijing in the last few days. They have been disguised with Russian-style turtling.
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