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Russians warn on social media of Ukraine allegedly using weather balloons to improve the use of FPV drones. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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The weather probe flies over the BPR, scatters tags for connecting to FPV...

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would bet these are mobile RTK stations to improve the accuracy of the drones to centimeter level. That looks like an ESP32 and LoRa transmitter on the board, probably with a uBlox F9P on the back for positioning.

[–] flappy@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

That's pretty clever.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 11 points 5 months ago

First pic is a danger pickle.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is a retro-slator?

[–] Motorheadbanger@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The poor translator app couldn't into bad spelling. It's "retranslator".

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think re-transmitter or repeater would be a more accurate translation.

[–] Motorheadbanger@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not a native speaker, so you're probably right. I checked to see that the word exists before posting, but oh well. Bad spelling part still stands tho