Ukraine got like 30,000 of them and there don't seem to be any videos of a Switchblade killing something
Were Switchblades a failure of a weapons system?
Ukraine got like 30,000 of them and there don't seem to be any videos of a Switchblade killing something
Sold to the black market / captured
yes local shopkeeper sold a bunch of them to tourists for a nice profit, works wonders
Oh god, please. It’s a pointless discussion because nobody here has data. The entire war should have clarified a few things:
1. Western propaganda about the strength of an enemy or the power of western weapons should never believed at any point.
2. Russian propaganda about its own strength or western weapons should never be believed at any point.
3. WW1 style of just hammering positions with artillery for days and weeks is a viable strategy.
4. Tanks and technicals are consumables
5. Wunderwaffen don’t exist, no single weapon system, even if deployed en masse is able to compete with WW1 style artillery
>5. Wunderwaffen don’t exist, no single weapon system, even if deployed en masse is able to compete with WW1 style artillery
Disagree, drones are a game changer. They just need enough of them with long enough range to bomb the shit out of the orc artillerymen.
Every wunderwaffen ever invented would have been a game changer "if they had enough of them".
moron post. Nothing we're seeing in Ukraine is indicative of anything because both sides have a shitty useless air force.
Footage from the drones themselves is most likely heavily classifed because the Americans dont want the enemy to know how got their cameras and video feed are. And when seen from the air the explosions are just the side of a 40 mm grenade anyway.
>how got their
*how good*
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_of_the_peoples
This too, I feel the weapon system wasnt really what they needed the most tbh.
The 300s we gave them are outdated and can only kill lightly armored vehicles at best. Which is fine since Russia has a lot of trucks.
anon it's not meant for armored vehicles of any kind, it's an anti-personnel weapon meant to push in positions that are otherwise heavily guarded, like artillery or pillboxes
Remember when Bayraktar footage stopped coming for a while and vatnik shills laughed at everyone who suggested Turkey had asked them to keep it under tighter wraps? Then we got four or five videos of them fricking up snake island.
Similar principle here, except the US likely had a very strict policy against leaking videos from it from the very beginning, as to my recollection we've only seen one or two.
one was a leak from a spotter using a different UAV, then one of the drone fricking up that tank with the morons poking their heads out of the hatch, then finally there was a carefully edited and timed photo op video
nothing more ever since
I would think they'd want to talk up the 300's since they're marketable and the morale deficit of angry murder-hornets might give Ukraine a boost, but it does seem very under wraps
>one of the drone fricking up that tank with the morons poking their heads out of the hatch
This is the only one that featured footage actually from the drone system. I wonder how it got leaked.
If they were asked to keep the footage under tighter wraps, why did 4/5 videos subsequently leak out? Especially around the much-hyped Island of Snakes?
It could be anything. Maybe they're not as effective as anyone thought, maybe they're super effective, maybe 29,997 of them are on the black market and only the three we've seen got used. Who knows? Everyone's lying through their teeth and has every reason to continue doing so.
Wake me up when everything gets declassified.
The Ukrainians discovered it was far more useful to use the Switchblade as an observation drone than as a suicide drone.
Why waste good cameras and good feeds on a single use item?
That's the most logical explanation. They're using them as recon drones.
OPSEC [ *redacted* ]
its very expensive and circuitous way to deliver weak grenade size payload
they have their uses but not so much in regular combat
Urban combat maybe but more useful to attackers than defenders
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1541049828288905218