Ukraine’s New Killer Drone Hunts Down RUS Shaheds!

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2. This drone stuff is getting insanely scary.

3. I'm sorry but it's not amazing, 🙁 it's really really sad. Actual people are dying in this war..

4. 👍

5. The only thing in trouble and it’s deep trouble is Ukraine itself. Facing complete capitulation as Russian keeps taking one strong hold after another. Up to a brigade encircled in Kursk along with other cauldrens formed by Russian forces in Ukraine. Of course you won’t see Paul admitting that. He is just a propagandist and wants to sell you gum by giving you fantasy stories you may find appealing.

6. Wild Hornets is a manufacturer, not a combat unit. This sounds quite profane.

7. Put a shirt on Paul. You look ridiculous trying to show off muscles you don't have

8. Russian drones dropping bombs on ordinary civilians in Kherson, another effin’ war crime!

   https://youtu.be/bHT90DZpFZU?si=-hmmvaGs9FaUE5EU

9. One of the first uses of aerial bombing (of a sort) was by a German from his own private plane during the South African campaign of 1914-1915 in German Southwest Africa (now Namibia). The South Africans were advancing though the desert from Luderitz Bay, with the Germans mainly focused on retreating in good order. One of the locals took some bombs up with him in his plane (hitherto used for reconnaissance) and dropped them in the vicinity of the South African main camp. Most missed by far, and I don't think many even exploded (sorry, I've forgotten a lot of the details, because I was told this a long, long time ago). Every day the plane would come, and the South Africans on the ground would try to shoot it down with rifle fire (wasting ammunition, I'd think, but maybe it was good for morale to be fighting back). They got quite blasé about the "bombing".

   And then he started to drop bombs with a parachute attached to the end, and they had to run for cover again when he came. It ended when they overran the German positions. (Instead of following the railway line and the line of water holes, small mounted patrols (5 men each – many of whom had been shooting things since the age of 10) would ride through the desert instead, making things precarious for the Germans, and speeding up their retreat (I think). Anyway, that's the end of the aerial bombing part of the story, so now it's The End. (And later everyone lived happily ever after)

10. Just one more thing. Obvious idea someone must have already thought of and discarded (but just in case). Why not use netting or a weight dangled on a line, or held on a stick of sorts, to just snag the propeller? No prop, no power, drone plummets. (I suppose that means a dangerous sized chunk of debris loaded with explosives hits the ground somewhere, potentially killing someone, instead of lots of non explosive fragments scattering. That's possibly why the idea was tossed when they thought of it.)

11. I think (one of) the next step(s) could be to attach guns to drones again. The problem with interceptor drones is, that they need to be faster then their target. With short notice warning times, significantly faster is better. Even if you say you don't need as much range, that means a kamikaze shaheed interceptor will be pretty expensive, because it must be that fast. And i see "then let's make them reusable" as a reasonable conclusion. On attack drones this makes no sense now because with jammers and anti-drone guns you have so much attrition that the reduced cost and increased success rate of one-way bombers is worth it, because even "reusable" bombers have a high likelihood of not coming back. However, when a Shaheed has crossed into Ukrainian airspace and is heading for a power plant or so, then the Ukrainian drone should have a relative save target approach and if it just shot down the Russian drone with an assault rifle it could also safely end the mission (or possibly intercept a second one on the same mission if the fuel is sufficient). Ultimately an interceptor drone with twice a shaheed's speed and a remote-controlled gun would cost several times the cost of a shaheed but just a drone twice as fast already cost much of this and the gun-armed has the potential to take out many more then one. – And they would probably still be cheap enough that Russians would not risk to send their SU-35 up to intercept them, which would be the next escalation (in a tactical, not in the political sense).

12. Youtube sensors r an absolutely disturbed lot . I don't know how u tolerate . Even i got warned for a very mild comment . Gone AI ?

13. Remember During the Soviet Union, most of the mad scientists were Ukrainian and scientists from other Soviet controlled nations. The real Russian weren’t the smart one within the Soviet Union.

14. You do great work.

15. OMG not another change changer ? How many is that now ? Hahaha

16. The Shahed drones have a very distinctive sound. Doing a Fourier analysis on the sound and using a dense network of microphones, you can pinpoint the location of a Shahed and get a hunter drone to home into it. You could probably put the microphone and software on the hunter drone (it would have to be electrically driven to reduce its own sound) and network a whole bunch of them.

17. Kamala is a leader, Trumps a weak pathetic loser, adversary's easily play him and America loses – UNFIT FOR OFFICE

18. Didn't Marilyn Monroe work in a drone factory more than 80 years ago, computers, cameras and explosives have just been added to these drones.

19. There's something about AI slop art that just triggers hate.

20. Youtube: Is that war footage you got there? 👁👄👁

21. I developed a much better UAV-killer-drone, tried to contact, but wild hornets did not answer my email

22. oh no russia losing the ability to commit war crimes?! THATS A RED LINE!!!!!!!!!

23. Putin invaded Ukraine, Putin alone caused the deaths of millions of innocent people and soldiers on both sides. Putin is a threat to humanity…

24. Thought South Korea was dabbling in this exact tech…
    Is it ready? Will South Korea sell these units for eventual deployment to Ukraine…

25. Although the intercepting missiles cost more than the Shahid drones this does not take into account people killed and damage to property should the drones reach their targets.

26. Future is lasers, 3 dollars a shot

27. You probably have russian trolls reporting you in mass numbers to try to shut you down

28. Iran won’t be pleased that their main export just went redundant :o)