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Posted on 07/13/2025 7:21:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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.
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.
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Are tanks now obsolete?
Just wait until military drones start being used for domestic “Law enforcement”.
Fake News: Ukraine is approaching the collapse of Prokovsk (sp?) and neighboring villages. Ukraine is still losing, and still expending Ukrainian soldiers like cannon fodder because Ukraine’s NATO handlers don’t care about Ukrainians.
True News: Russia is approaching collapse across the front. Ukraine is not losing and is not expending soldiers like cannon fodder; Russia is still unable to win and is expending soldiers like cannon fodder because Russia's political and military leaders don't care about Russians.
Interesting how the development of combat drones mirrors that of aircraft in WWI. Which, summed up:
General 1: “But these things will be used just for reconnaissance”.
General 2: “Hey, if we strapped guns and bombs on these things wouldn’t it be cool as hell?”
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Wrong.
Military Summary Channel
https://youtu.be/kIHca6rCr9k
On You Tube there’s dozens of horrifying videos of drones literally chasing down individual Russian soldiers and blowing them to pieces. In one video a drone is chasing some hapless and terrified Russian around the hulk of a burnt out truck.
The guy is trying desperately trying to fight the thing off and tries to dive under the truck but is blown to pieces. In another some terrified Russian kid is running across a field being chased by an FVP drone, throwing away his helmet, his rifle and the last thing is him turning toward the drone and then he’s a red mist.
Horrifying.
WSJ is BS
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