$10M Russian "Osa" air defense system is destroyed by an FPV drone that costs several hundred dollars.
$10M Russian "Osa" air defense system is destroyed by an FPV drone that costs several hundred dollars.
💥 Scouts burned the Russian "Osa" for 10 million dollars
🫡 Soldiers of the Kryla special unit of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine discovered and destroyed the Russian anti-aircraft missile system "Wasp".
💰 The cost of the enemy's automated air defense system is 10 million dollars. The cost of the fpv drone, which the scouts used to burn down the "Wasp", is several hundred dollars.
😎 Interesting math lessons will continue!
🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!
That does seem to be the story of this war, doesn't it? I bet all the major militaries are looking at stuff like this and investing in more drones for themselves, too.
That would be stupid. Drones are easy to take out with cheap anti aircraft. they work today because it will take a couple yeas to develop and deploy and so they are useful today but it won't last.
there are good options for drones but based on something like the f35 with stealth or other things that make them harder and more expensive to shoot down. However those are not cheap.
Drone defence will be the big issue of the next couple of decades. There's no easy solution right now and it will be a constant arms race between better drones and better defences.
The problem is that the >$100 million dollar planes that this was designed to shoot down is still a threat, so they can’t just stop deploying these because of drones.
Interesting math lessons 🤣
Those ruzzkis have a very expensive bridge, too 😉
Why do they always add the fake static right before the drone hits? They do it to every video.
That's actually happening, and isn't an effect. They're using analogue recorders because that's good/cheap enough to blow up after one use. There's a bit of a delay to process and transmit the signal, so it cuts out during the last bit of processing before it even registers the hit.
Which does make piloting it a bit tricky, too. And if you've ever flown any type of drone, you probably noticed it's faster than your reaction time, which makes these skilled attacks even more impressive to me. But I guess they also have a lot of practice, by now!
Analog video transmitters also work better at longer ranges, because a staticky signal is better than an "all or nothing" digital signal.
Couldn't that be a loss of signal due to adversarial jamming?
Maybe they don't want to let the Kremlin know how effective their electronic warfare systems are.
Does it transmit in HD until impact? Is it just barely able to hit the target?