Ukrainian fiber-optic FPV drones of the “Murchiki” unit of the 57th Motorized Brigade hit several Russian soldiers in Vovchansk. 16.08.2025

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1. that first sequence was some insane piloting skills.

2. That’s the most insane display of flying skill I have seen in this war so far goddam

3. A noob question. How many kilometers of fiber optic can these drone hold? I know they a not nearly as thin as a spiders thread. But they look extremely thin?

4. Do Russian soldiers get no anti-drone training at all?

5. There is no where to hide from the drones.

6. I wonder if militaries might consider training soldiers in regards to the standard approach when a FPV is coming straight at you or is hunting you.

   Maintaining some spacing is important, but I’ve seen so many soldiers trying to evade or run from an FPV that I wonder how often a soldier survives from this.

   On the other hand, I’ve seen plenty of videos of soldiers surviving drone attacks because they stood their ground and fired at the drone. Obviously there’s a survivor-ship bias here, but I haven’t seen any footage of a soldier surviving a drone attack because he dodged it. I’m not saying it never happened, it surely does but I’d be interesting to see the survival rate for this. I’m pretty sure most drones that fail an attack (where the drone isn’t destroyed by the target) is because of a pilot error.

   Obviously it’s easy to say when there’s death charging straight at you. Still, I’ve lost count of how many videos there are where the FPV charges at a group of soldiers and instead of all trying to shoot that thing, there’s 80% of the group that straight up runs.

7. The first sequence is wild, they’re searching the building with the drone while being shot at.

8. Jesus, is that a dude with a PBS-1?

9. first clip was great work

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