The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to actively use FPV drones with air blasts

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1. You can run but you can’t hide.

2. Hats off to them….

3. Blew his plate carrier right off.

4. Seems to be more of a recoilless dircetional charge than an actual airburst projectile.

   IMO this is an important technological step to build multi-use / multi-charge loitering munitions.

5. Oh yeah, this is good!

6. A hint to anyone: when you are running away from a threat do not jog, use all the power you have immediately, do not save anything for later. You are running for your life.

7. The pattern spread on the ground is indicative of a pipe bomb loaded with shrapnel of some sort. Basically a giant shotgun shell. Very nice.

8. That’s terrifying. I’m penning a new ballad of the “Claymore in the Sky” sung to the tune of the “Green Berets” by Barry Sadler.

9. Monty Python did it so much better. The guy was chased by topless bikini-clad women wearing bicycle helmets over the edge of a cliff where he fell to his death.

10. Run bitch run.

11. It might have been airburst, but that still looks like a heat round.

    Heat Is WAAAY less effective as an air burst than a jar filled with explosives and bearings.

12. The winged blunderbuss

13. Was waiting for this capability to show up. Instead of proximity fusing it’s more likely operator initiated remoted detonation. Should still have impact detonation redundancy.

14. Died dead tired

15. Just wondering is the drone ok and able to be used again?

16. ……looney tunes……dab dabbba that’s all folks.

17. Wow…hits like a giant shaped shotgun shell

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19. His best chance probably would have been to drop everything and surrender.

    Otherwise, he should’ve stayed in his own fucking country.

20. ❤️

21. You can run but you’ll just die tired

22. Tally Ho, motherfucker! Here comes the grape shot!

23. I hope the drone is alright 😉

24. Nowhere to hide.

25. Oooof, that was brutal…😳

26. Not sure why they need an air blast in this particular case when they can just hit him in the fucking head.

27. Damn… Guess he wanted to die tired😬

28. He did survive with a mild concussion.

29. Prometheus school of running away.

30. 😂 run piggy run 😂😂😂😂 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧💪🏻

31. I would have blocked the blast with a double back flip.

32. Motivational jogging drone.

    Run back to Moscow or wherever you orcs came from as fast as possible, get tired? slower pace? *KABOOM*

33. He went from his morning jog to yoga pretty quickly

34. If you run you just die tired.

35. Was about damn time. So much more effective agains troops

36. Jesus!

37. Titled: “Don’t run, you’ll just die tired”.

38. A bit of terminal PT for Ivan.

39. Needs rocky jogging music..,

40. jogging is good before going to hell.

41. He died tired.

42. That drone was playing w its food

43. Caption was confusing. It would be more like “air bursting function.” Air blast makes it sound like an air horn or something, lol. Definitely not the case here.

44. Remote detonation. There’s a somewhat famous radio engineer who works with the 47th brigade on these remote control devices specifically. The Economist published something about their work.

45. Okay… A question I’ve been pondering for a while.

    What happens if a soldier detects a FPV drone and immediately disarms and puts their hands up to surrender? Because at that point aren’t they technically non combatants and therefore under the Geneva Convention be protected from harm?
    If so then would that be a tactic to avoid getting blasted like this? Just knee down with hands on head and wait for the drone to run out of battery or something. Im aware Russians don’t give a F, but it seems Ukraine does. So what happens if this occurs for them?

46. Getting chased by a drone looks like something you would see in the movie ‘Squid Games II’.