Ukraine releases dramatic FPV footage of drone attack on Russian airbases – video
Ukraine releases dramatic FPV footage of drone attack on Russian airbases – video
So my thoughts watching this is that it wasn't exactly a quick attack. The drones were actually being used as quadcopters, manually controlled instead of seeking a target or coordinates, and they seem to be launched sequentially, likely because they're piloted locally by a limited pool of operatives.
This means that there was no useful jamming going on, and I wonder if any base personnel even tried to shoot them down.
I remember reading that the drones were meant to be autonamous? (I refuse to look up how to spell that word and simply accept my incorrectness) so those pauses and such might just be whatever image recognitions is intended to identify the shape of an aircraft freaking out a bit. Would also explain sequential launches as it would stop them all dogpiling one plan and being wasted.
I'm feeling lazy with sources, but I've seen reporting that they were at least partially using Ardupilot for autonomous control, and likely were moving slower since they were tethered fiber optic drones that can't be jammed anyway. Hence, spider's web with all the fibers on the field.
Anyone know what the tires are about?
An attempt at optical camouflage.
cope tires, aka anti drone high-technology, there are other overhead pics of planes fully covered, which might help but from most of these shots they clearly were running low on tires and just looks really odd.
Thanks for the info.
I saw this exact video the day of the attack, why is this article phrased as if it was released just now?
Giving The Guardian the benefit of the doubt: because they took time to verify its authenticity before reporting on it.
More likely reason: urgency and BREAKING NEWS gets more clicks.
That’s so badass. As an FPV hobbyist this is like a fantasy. I’m curious though, why do they all say failsafe, yet they’re seemingly still in control of most of them. I see there’s no GPS lock. Maybe it calls failsafe when no GPS but doesn’t trigger the drone to shut down.
Is that even beta flight? Never seen it configured like this, I know that's what they were using at the beginning because that was basically the only FPV software available, but maybe they have a new "military-grade" one now?
Also it's interesting to see the different flying styles, some of them are like "let me carefully position myself slowly right next to this wing, yesss just right", meanwhile their buddy just flies full speed ahead straight into it.
According to the Ukrainians they trained an AI on some of the target planes they had in museums (some of the strategic bombers blown up were actually handed over from Ukraine in the nineties to russia (alongside the nukes), and I guess they kept one or two as museum pieces), so it could be the AI carefully chosing the good spot to blow up
Yeah idk what config they’re using. Doesn’t look like any that I’ve used.
Haha yeah and some look like they’re just falling from the sky. Not sure how the camera is facing straight down and moving down as well unless they just disarmed and let it fall.
The video from the article: https://youtu.be/aukyzgAGHM4
So how are them tires working for ya? 😏
That was really satisfying to watch
I suppose all the planes where fully tanked up and ready to fly in order to be so flammable. I wonder if the damages would be so bad if a plan would be empty of fuel ?
Also, why do they put tires on top ?
Some have theorized the tires disrupt object recognition in aerial imagery analysis (and possibly munitions or drone targeting). Obviously that didn't work here as the targets were already known and visually confirmed.
Were they even operatable flight-ready aircraft?....
There is a video, with close up, of a loaded 101 cruise missile under the wing, those motherfuckers were loaded up and ready to go in the Zeus lightning operation, putin wanted it to be the biggest air attack in the war just before the "peace negotiations". That didn't pan out as expected lol.
The exceptions are the two AWACS who seems to be kept for cannibalism (to keep the two-three flying ones with pieces they can no longer produce).
If they weren't then they wouldn't be full of fuel. Also, russia has been using these to launch cruise missiles at Ukraine.
Edit: upon further viewing of the footage, some of the bombers even have missiles mounted to hard points on their wings when the drones hit them.
Yes, they got deployed a lot over the last years