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I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
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Re: I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
#22You need to compare this to hit rate with mortars and attrition by counter battery fire on mortar teams. Not to detract from a sober assessment but it's hard to judge without the other parts of the story. Thr tldr would be "temper expectations"
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Re: I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
#23FPV drones don’t suck if you know what you’re doing. If you don’t have proper training, you’re going to suck at it.
Re: I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
#24The article talks about signal jammers, but as far as I know most drones there are remote controlled using fiber for exactly that reason?
Yes, he writes that after he left the battlefield they became more common. There was a video of a soldier wading through massive amounts of fiber near the front line. Just imagine that for each drone attack there will be 10-50km of fiber dropped on the landscape. It will not rot and stay there until someone cleans it up.
I've always wondered if the burning batteries and electronics in the drones have any significant environmental impact when compared to conventional weapons.
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#25I've seen some of these FPV videos of kills of unarmed Russian soldiers. I honestly don't know why the pilots are not prosecuted for war crimes.
(and I'm sure Russia does the same to Ukraine, I just haven't seen those videos).
Re: I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
#26The article talks about signal jammers, but as far as I know most drones there are remote controlled using fiber for exactly that reason?
> Today, some Ukrainian and Russian units are also using drones controlled by fiber-optic cable, rather than radio, though I had no personal experience with this type of drone in my unit
Re: I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
#27This tracks with the earlier ~12% drone kill efficiency estimates. However drone is a mass deployment weapon. Ukraine did about 2 million frontline sorties in 2024 and aims for 5 million this year. This 1 out of 9 ratio translates into absolutely devastating damage, that artillery and airstrikes (which are also hardly "easy to use") can only dream of.
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War is one of humanities oldest past times. If men can’t figure out their differences, they try to kill each other, as witnessed in the entire animal kingdom.
Re: I fought in Ukraine and here's why FPV drones kind of suck
#29I've seen some of these FPV videos of kills of unarmed Russian soldiers. I honestly don't know why the pilots are not prosecuted for war crimes. (and I'm sure Russia does the same to Ukraine, I just haven't seen those videos).
> I've seen some of these FPV videos of kills of unarmed Russian soldiers. I honestly don't know why the pilots are not prosecuted for war crimes.
An enemy combatant doesn't stop being an enemy combatant just because he dropped his weapons.
War crime is executing prisoners. And there are a few videos were Russians gleefully murder prisoners
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Unhappy that rapists and baby killers are stopped before they can commit more war crimes?