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Video from a Russian crew member aboard the "Caesar Kunikov" the night it sank on February 14th. (streamable.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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Video from the Magura V5 attack USVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmQCQXfN_SU

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[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Why do the drone boats weave and loop around so much? Seems like they're lingering in the "shoot me" zone.

Edit: could it be that they want to draw fire to themselves so other boats can move in instead?

[-] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

I base this on absolutely 0 military experience BUT

Could be a distraction vessel to draw fire

Could be to give Russia a chance to use countermeasures and evaluate their effectiveness + come up with next Gen drone to mitigate current countermeasures

Could be that it is impossible to get a good video from a drone bouncing around in the water and they wanted to make contact with areas that ensure sinking

Could be a test to see how much punishment the drones can take while maintaining combat effectiveness

Could be that it's pure chaos and neither side has a great strategy aside from do/do no explode if possible

Either way, this footage is wild! Give em hell Ukraine!!

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 points 8 months ago

Apparently there is a 3 second lag too, so I bet it's better to turn (left, right, left right) than going straight with that kind of lag if you don't have a clear idea where you want to go.

Also the drone boats have different objectives, so if there us a filming-boat, it seems logic it'd turn a lot.

Armchair general Valmond ar your service.

[-] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Wow if it's really that high, then organizing an attack with 10 drones is extremely impressive!

I'd have hoped that the lag would be lower, because Starlink has a lower orbit than geosync satellites. My hunch would've been 100ms one way, for a complete round-trip delay of 0.5s at most.

[-] Opafi@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

I'd bet that after starlink was disabled once mid operation, they'd rather eat a donkey's dick than rely on Musk's ass again.

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I imagine a bunch of drones zig-zagging around your ship in the middle of the night are much less predictable and harder to hit than if they are coming at you fast but in a straight line. You are bound to lose track of one of them in the chaos. There's also less of a risk that the drones blow each other up when one gets inevitably hit. Plus, there's probably a significant delay in the controls on top of the difficulty of steering an unstable watercraft like this.