Bad news for Russians. It's simple algorithm to look at the rate edges are changed and how many are changed. There would be no need for any communication by the drone; just wait for the front of a vehicle to swamp the background or for headlamps to get a certain width apart on the image sensor, then pop up. Add a small sonar module and the height is managed within an inch or so.

I have wondered when parked drones would enter the war. Save the batteries and maybe have some solar cells to extend a bit and listen for a noise or other indicator to wake up and pass information back. Making an aerial mine is icing on the cake.

They can work both ways, though. The interstitial zone (temporarily-occupied Ukraine) is becoming more and more of an obstacle course for friend and foe alike. If the car is a non-combatant, does the drone rise up to let it past, or does the drone just get flattened??

Long time since I played in that field, but notching would be the usual defensive manoeuvre even at relative low TAS, doing a 180 doesn't complicate the tracking problem for the missile at all. What Russias tactics are are a mystery, seems they mainly involve spreading metal in all directions and correcting the OOB and seniority lists. Operating at medium or high altitude into an area near a country that your own clown has been lobbing missiles from airborne platforms against civilians is hardly a wise move, about on par with the tactics of the A-50 and the IL-22's.

This will rapidly ruin your day.


Home made Frags

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lol, watch it to the end.

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Says it all really

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Lithuania to join Ukraine and scale up drone production.

What can one say but

A Russian APC stopped carrying troops on the outside, one survives, GRAPHIC, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Using a drone to damage a bridge, what is the large pot thing on the top, a mortar?

Some form of shaped charge perhaps?

Is that a Drone? The way it moves looks more like a radio control device?

But isn't that what flying drones are, radio controlled, just as the one on the ground that is being navigated by the flying one.

Kind of pointless if we don't know Ukrainian losses.
Not to mention that I would not believe either data set.

Admikar. Nutloose has been posting these datasets since the very beginning of the war, and you only choose now to criticise them?

I am not criticising them.
I'm just saying that I think its kinda pointless as any sort of progress marker if we don't have other side to compare. Doesn't really make difference if enemy lost XYZ if you lost the same.
Not to mention that we have no idea how accurate this data is in the first place (coming from either side).
And I said this same thing way back when he posted one of the first datasets

A drone controlling an rc car :-) I hadn't considered that.
It is true the original drone or Queen Bee Tiger Moth was radio (or was that wirelessly) controlled. My understanding of a modern drone is an autonomous device that you tell where to go rather than fly.
It's all semantics of course. I'll go with whichever one is correct.

I have made the same comment over the months and I think it is a valid comment.
Perhaps the time for such information is after the battle, when the battle is won but not for now. Lets not help the enemy. Loose lips and all that.
I think we can all agree that it's not going `Vlad the Insaner's` way.