The War in the Ukraine

Footage of Russian Geran-2 kamikaze drone strikes on Ukrainian Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters. The video was filmed at an airfield in the Kirovohrad region of Ukraine, using Geran-2 drones under direct control.
The first Geran-2 strike targeted a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter, causing it to catch fire. The Geran-2 drones then attacked a nearby Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter.

Footage of a Russian precision-guided Krasnopol missile striking a Ukrainian army drone control center located in a bunker. Observers reported that the Ukrainian control center launched drones in the direction of Kupyansk and Slovyansk. The bunker was fired upon by artillerymen from the Russian Zapad group using a 152mm 2A65 Msta-B towed howitzer. The missile strike destroyed the Ukrainian bunker housing the drone operators, as shown at the end of the video.

Footage of a Russian Iskander missile striking a concealed Ukrainian drone launch site located in a forested area. The video was filmed near the village of Fayivka in Ukraine's Chernihiv Oblast. The video shows the arrival of a Ukrainian supply vehicle and UAV launchers.

Footage of a Russian 300mm Tornado-S MLRS strike on a temporary deployment site for Ukrainian units located in an abandoned building. The location of the shooting is not disclosed. The Tornado-S missile strike partially destroyed the Ukrainian building.

Soldier30 said:

Footage of a Russian Iskander missile striking a concealed Ukrainian drone launch site located in a forested area. The video was filmed near the village of Fayivka in Ukraine's Chernihiv Oblast. The video shows the arrival of a Ukrainian supply vehicle and UAV launchers.

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Talk about using a sledgehammer on a mosquito. But then these drone teams are especially dangerous and annoying mosquitoes, so the cost of the Iskander is probably paid back many times over in terms of lives and equipment saved from the elimination of those drone teams.

plawolf said:

Talk about using a sledgehammer on a mosquito. But then these drone teams are especially dangerous and annoying mosquitoes, so the cost of the Iskander is probably paid back many times over in terms of lives and equipment saved from the elimination of those drone teams.

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I don't think these are FPV drone sites but rather launchers of long ranged winged drones used to attack infrastructure within Russia. The clue of what class of drones are hinted by the strike location.

As for FPV drone crews they are struck with what's available at the moment, right down to even drone directed mortars and indirect tank fire.

Kyiv residents have published footage of the flight of the Russian heavy drone Italmas. The Italmas drone was equipped with a Starlink terminal and conducted a reconnaissance flight over Kyiv for 4.5 hours. It is still unknown why Ukraine's air defense forces remained inactive for so long.

The use of drones and robotic platforms in Ukraine has become so widespread that the war in Ukraine has been called the first drone war. Footage has been published of Russian FPV drone strikes on tracked and wheeled robotic platforms of the Ukrainian army. Russian FPV drones, including VT-40 "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" drones, and other models, including those controlled via fiber optic cable, are being used in the fighting in Ukraine. The exact location of the footage is unknown.
Currently, robots in Ukraine are used primarily for transport. With the advent of artificial intelligence, robot warfare will look something like this. It's worth noting that in the future, even a small country could become quite powerful with a robot army. Afghanistan, which no one has ever conquered, could be controlled by robots and drones.