This Russian serviceman was apparently a witness to a “flock of Ukrainian FPV drones led by a repeater drone Queen” which descended onto Russian positions and started the bombing

This Russian serviceman was apparently a witness to a “flock of Ukrainian FPV drones led by a repeater drone Queen” which descended onto Russian positions and started the bombing
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  2. This man has not been anywhere near Combat….he has however visited McDonalds recently….

  4. IIRC, Perun talked about this as a possibility in the video he did on drones, or at least something like this.

  6. sounds like something he learned but has problem saying it XD

  7. Yep, self repairing wireless mesh networks, I should know, I have been working with the stuff now for close on 12 years. I was wondering how long it would take for people to realise you can deploy drone swarms with this technology. Some of the new stuff we offer can deploy over 8000 wireless nodes all working in a secure self repairing mesh network and each node able to connect up to 30 devices. Terrifying stuff, as you can destroy 99 nodes out of 100 and the device will still be on mission.

  8. Sounds like in the Switchblade 300 demo videos where they sent them as a swarm in formation, yet there they had no repeater drone with them, but it may be a option to boost signal.

  10. It’s the Bee Theory, honey comes to those who wait.

  11. The large drone is nearly always to be a birds eye view camera to confirm if mission successful or not. It probably can also work as a relay. I don’t think they are using mesh though as theres latency in mesh and fps needs as low a latency as possible. I do think they are using analogue rather than digital fpv. It’s as low tech as you can get. The Ukrainians strap a mention to an fav drone and fly to the target. No idea why the russians aren’t shooting them down. FPV drones are noisy as fuck but maybe they’ve never seen one before so its too late as boom.

  13. Is this the kind of shit they use for drone shows normally?

  15. What he’s seeing is ISR working with the FPV guys as they coordinate targeting. The russian imagination is hilarious though.

  17. Poor guy looks really worried about these drones. Maybe they wouldn’t be a problem if, I dunno, you hadn’t invaded a neighbouring country you fat orc fuck.

  18. I’m waiting for a found footage Russian news report that descends into moviesque alien invasion chaos. I also ask that it be called Hoverfield. It’s a small ask.

  19. So? Please deposit your complaint in the nearest trash can

  20. That would support the claim of a russian soldier, who said there were 17 drones in the air at the same time.

  21. I’ve been wondering when this sort of thing would appear. I was always imagining a duo rather than a swarm, but a swarm makes more sense.

  23. I know Rheinmetall Germany had a project with a Motherdrone that could release a swarm of small drones and they planned to test it in ukraine. But I’m not sure about it and I can’t find the source anymore.

  24. Queen drones with flocks of FPV drones.. now only need the mechs and lasers..

  27. Really. How fucking awesome *and* terrifying is it that this technology is no longer sci-fi.

  32. He said about 10 “worker drones” and 1 queen. You know this is just the beginning. I can see the numbers climbing so that you have a real swarm of hundreds on workers ready to strike. I am guessing the only limitation will be how many an FPV drone operator can fly at one time. It would make no sense to fly multiple drones against soft targets like troops in a trench. I can see how the operator would want to target several workers against a tank, artillery piece, structure or other hard target.

    There is little doubt drones have crated a whole new paradigm in warfare. The relatively low cost and high return plus the easy access to the technology means every military will be using them in any conflict. The U.S. and other western militaries would do well to invest a lot of research and funding into anti-drone technology.

  33. UWVR has shown many videos taped by observation drones of FPV drones killing individual soldiers. As cool as it would be to posit a swarm of autonomous Ukrainian killer drones, I’m not sure we have to accept this soldier’s assessment of what he saw. Eleven drones (one stand-off observer and 10 FPVs) operated by eleven operators would look the same.

  36. Didn’t someone post a video here a few months ago of the Ukranians testing the exact thing he’s describing, or atleast some AI concept of it?

    I have a vivid memory of seeing one of those giant bomber drones releasing loads of smaller wasp drones

  37. They should equip one of the drones in the flock with a kickass speaker system that plays “Ride of the Valkyries.”

  38. This has to be worse than a flock of canadian geese flying over your cat. (Their poop is huge and kinda looks like cat scat.)

  40. Sounds like an 80s band. Flock of Drones ! I like it.
    New Title: Russian Love Song

  41. This is fascinating. Ukraine needs to ramp this up by 100x if they’re going to make any progress. Speaking as an American, our support for the war is on a short time clock. We have the attention span of monkeys. Tech like this is probably their best investment now.

  43. Welcome to the 2020’s

    Making Skynet real one day at a time…

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