>be vanka
>18, poor as fuck
>drafted
>12 weeks training
>get to front
>cold as shit, miserable
>see someone's science fair project flying towards you
>two dozen grenades fall out
>cyкa
>be vanka. >18, poor as fuck. >drafted. >12 weeks training. >get to front. >cold as shit, miserable
I want to see drones dropping cinder blocks
Think more comedic: bees
Drop a beehive on some vatniks to cause a panic while you sneak by in stealth to ninja their gems
Worked for the Germans in WW1
would this bee considered chemical weapon?
if not, someone should definitely breed bees stinging with neurotoxins.
no, bees are clearly biological weapons
the X-Files did that
Bioweapon of mass destruction from the hohil nazi biolabs
a battlefield woefully underpopulated by bees?
Think more practical: Lazy Dogs. 13x44mm drag stabilized cast iron bullets dropped out of planes. No UXO, can be can dug up after securing the area with a magnet, hit like a .50 cal bullet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Dog_(bomb)
Unironically this might be useful. Everyone has allowed their industrial capabilities to degrade so far that raw production of high explosive and shells is a limiting factor right now. But fucking any industrial nation with some level of steel production/use could churn those things out by the tens of millions.
Flechettes were already reported in Bucha a year ago.
Is this the future of modern warfare?
IIRC isn't Australia testing drones with fuselage made out of literal cardboard?
Yeah, that's the one. Specs, cost, etc.?
$100,000 plus tip
I thought cardboard was out, with no string or cellotape either
I want to be perfectly clear that it is highly unusual for the front to fall off one of these drones
But what about this one?
Well it was hit by wind - one in a million chance of that happening in the air
I just want to clear up that the allegations that these drones are made as cheaply as possible to drop as many grenades as possible onto vatniks to be completely nonsense
Well thank you for visiting us Senator
That's only for shipping
>Nintendo Labo expansion pack
>I can now call my foam board r/c planes military grade uavs
Sometimes I almost don't hate this timeline.
moron that's foamboard, and the good stuff too.
someone decided to try and copy Flite Test's homework to get defense dollars? lmao
why not?
If by "testing" you mean "actively shipping to Ukraine for use against the Russians" then yes, Australia is testing cardboard drones
Great, given the average lifespan of a drone, that’s rather smart.
Too many man hours for something that could be made way cheaper, but yes, soon the era of cheap, man-portable anti-personnel PGMs will be upon us.
>Too many man hours
That's plywood, styrofoam, duct tape and a simple controller. That wouldn't take someone with a bandsaw more than 2 days to make.
>12 weeks training
They'd be lucky to get 12 days before being sent to the front.
The twelve weeks includes walking from the other side of the Urals to Leningrad and then from there to the front.
Eбaть))
Eбaть is the literal verb "to fuck." It is not usually used as an exclamation. блядь would be a better fit.
>It is not usually used as an exclamation
It is though.
It is.
t. native russian speaker
It is an exclamation of surprise
Synonyms:
Eбaнyтьcя
Ёбaный cыp нaхyй
Oхyeть
>two dozen grenades fall out
Surely that thing is designed to drop grenades one by one.
Quadcopter drones are accurate because they hover. A fixed wing drone dropping unguided bombs is only getting WW1 levels of accuracy so you need to drop a lot of them at once.
While hovering does help this
>is only getting WW1 levels of accuracy
is way too far anon. For one thing a slow fixed wing drone is still massively closer to the ground and moving far slower. Even guided by a human it's just plain a lot fucking easier to hit what you're aiming at from 100' up vs 12000' up. Also while given how ghetto it looks I'm assuming it's probably full manual, in principle there is no reason, even with hyper ghetto hardware, that the software can't still be fairly sophisticated. Such is the magic of software, something that took a team of phds a year to write might then still be run on any toaster in the world for zero marginal cost. Cameras and a basic 1000' laser range finder are fucking cheap too. So in priniciple it'd be perfectly feasible to rig up a plenty decent "operator highlights target, computer figures out the release timing" setup. Don't need a whole lot of math to crunch that even with pretty minimal data when you're that low. That'd get you a relatively tight cep.
Though since grenades are also very cheap and russia favors meatwaves doesn't hurt to release a spread. Computer timed spread would be even better.
>drafted
>12 weeks training
>>12 weeks training
more like 12 days training
There's no way that actually flies, right?
They didn't mount the wings for the picture.
Even with them I still have my doubts
I don't see the novelty of it, really. There are already stacked mine spreading devices. For helicopters mind you, but the idea is not exactly new.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSM-1_mine_system