i had no idea these things could do that

mine is clearly visible but there’s also just a lot of trash so maybe that’s why it was ignored. magnetic influence fuze maybe? normal sized AT mine would shred this thing immediately, so it’s probably some AP mine? some unholy DIY contraption?

i think that’s the plot of Tenet (2020)

you would have to ask the Touareg militia, but it seems to be Soviet song “Священная война” (Sacred War) basically a second Soviet anthem during WW2. maybe they wanted to put there an Ukrainian war song of some sort as Ukrainians aided them, and there’s a photo of some of these militia members and foreign operatives (blurred, but white) with Ukrainian flag. oopsie

isn’t that a bit too vertical for it to be a JDAM-ER?

i think i’ve seen that before https://youtu.be/DnUTPwfuJHE?feature=shared&t=260

they had only 6 of these, 3 are visible in video. so that means at least 3 worked, or more realistically 3 worked. now 2

round pizza makes logistics inefficient

i understand that these are mass manufactured 7" drones made from standard components. commercial cloverleaf antenna, motors + blades, frames are sometimes bought and sometimes 3d-printed. battery pack, electronics, and of course payload are custom. there are also drones that use completely nonstandard bands for control and video, this is useful against jammers and if you’re printing your own boards, changing bands to something weird takes zero effort

with what looks like bulgarian variant of OG-7V warhead

so it seems, that drone probably isn’t even using frequencies that that jammer emits (probably it’s against small fpv drones, so we’re talking about 2.4ghz, 5ghz wifi bands + 1.6 ghz gps and maybe some others) but also it’s fixed wing so it’ll just glide to the target on its own

russians regularly launch cruise missiles over caspian sea during combined strikes on targets in ukraine. there’s enough range in them and over there, large bombers are safe

this is closest to dogfight that can happen in Ukraine

he’s well rested now

also trying to outrun all the pissed off dudes that had to carry him

might be relevant: i don’t think these three were equals. first and third one are kitted out, but the second one (targeted) had no weapon, no backpack, and sneakers as shoes. russians consider some categories of soldiers as expendable, maybe he was from penal unit or something like that

The invention of campism and its consequences have been a disaster for sane leftist discourse (in western europe. somehow it’s not a problem in countries like poland and baltics)

hostile reminder that government != people of a given country

there is some opposition, not much, and you won’t hear from them a lot because communications out of the country are tightly controlled and iranian security apparatus is on the more hostile end of scale, but there is something. iranian emigrants tend to be pretty liberal

believe it or not, remotely delivered (tungsten) disco balls are known technology https://imgur.com/a/oOPI7VX