🔥Chasiv Yar. Surroundings - the 24th Brigade staged a "choreography" with the occupants with FPV drones.

Soldiers of the Battalion of Unmanned Aerial Systems "RAROG" 24 OMBr named after King Danylo chased one Russian with a drone on the outskirts of Chasovoy Yar.

The invader tried to "loop" around the battered armor, but his end was obvious.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Fuck the Russians, but I can’t imagine how terrifying that must be. I’m sure they make some sort of identifying sound when they’re flying around and that must be the most terrifying sound you ever hear, not a plane or a bomb blowing up, but the whirr of a small drone flying around.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let’s face it: this kind of resembles deliberate torture.

The vietnam war might have been the first to show us war in our living rooms, but this war may be the first to really capture the absolute ugliest part of war: the sadistic torture of victims, done by soldiers who have their enemies captured or cornered.

(Unless there is a tactical reason to maneuver the target away from the vehicle— which there could be that I just haven’t thought of)

This war could bring that to the home consciousness for the first time.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It is definitely seems a bit sadistic, but I’m thinking they wanted to get him away from the vehicle, as it is a cover. If the drone explodes on one side, and the enemy just manages to duck around the corner half seconds before, the truck catches most of the shrapnel, and they have wasted a drone

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

I have a DJI drone, and it is a whisper/buzz that would totally freak me the fuck out if I knew that whisper/buzz had a RPG or similar explosive strapped to it.

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm scared of drones even without bombs strapped to them, when I'm the one driving. Can't imagine how terrifying this would be

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

It’s an angry buzzing sound that is very distinct, you can usually hear them from dozens of meters away.