The first bit of the video is sped up right?
Yeah seems like it. It runs at 20m/s and later it is way slower, like 1/4, but still at 16m/s.
Thanks for pointing that out
The plane this particular drone hits is missing one back wing so the drone was destroying spare parts.
Good. Destroy every single military asset the azzholes have until they completely retreat from Ukraine.
So my understanding is these drones were operating autonomously, meaning they were not teleoperated through an RC connection. If this is true this is a really nice engineering success. Finding the base can be done from preprogrammed flight paths.But then the drone needs to reliably detect the planes. That is not easy as you would have little previous data of the base and probably also of the planes, at least in their russian air force paintings. My understanding is that the planes are quite rare and are also not operated by Ukraine so quite a challenge. The drone also needs to distinguish planes that haven’t been hit and planes that are already burning/damaged. Probably having training data on this specifically for the planes is even harder. Maybe one could make a generic burning object detector? Then for navigating the drone it needs to combine these infos into a map that’s good for 3d navigation and precise enough to point to the weak points at the wings.And all of that needs to be reliable enough so that it doesn’t pose an overly risk for the civilian areas. And you basically have no way of really testing it out beforehand and doing development iterations.Really well done from a technical point of view.No, they were operated through the mobile internet network in Russia. The operators sat in Ukraine and controlled the drones remotely through Ardupilot. The drones sent a livestream to the operators and received the input, just like a conventional drine would from the remote.
