• venusaur@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    That’s so badass. As an FPV hobbyist this is like a fantasy. I’m curious though, why do they all say failsafe, yet they’re seemingly still in control of most of them. I see there’s no GPS lock. Maybe it calls failsafe when no GPS but doesn’t trigger the drone to shut down.

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      7 months ago

      cope tires, aka anti drone high-technology, there are other overhead pics of planes fully covered, which might help but from most of these shots they clearly were running low on tires and just looks really odd.

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    7 months ago

    I suppose all the planes where fully tanked up and ready to fly in order to be so flammable. I wonder if the damages would be so bad if a plan would be empty of fuel ?

    Also, why do they put tires on top ?

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      7 months ago

      There is a video, with close up, of a loaded 101 cruise missile under the wing, those motherfuckers were loaded up and ready to go in the Zeus lightning operation, putin wanted it to be the biggest air attack in the war just before the “peace negotiations”. That didn’t pan out as expected lol.

      The exceptions are the two AWACS who seems to be kept for cannibalism (to keep the two-three flying ones with pieces they can no longer produce).

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      7 months ago

      If they weren’t then they wouldn’t be full of fuel. Also, russia has been using these to launch cruise missiles at Ukraine.

      Edit: upon further viewing of the footage, some of the bombers even have missiles mounted to hard points on their wings when the drones hit them.