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It may be the first time a drone has destroyed a helicopter in mid-air.

Ukrainian forces deploy more than 100,000 explosive first-person-view drones a month all along the 700-mile front line of Russia’s 28-month wider war on Ukraine. The drones smash into armored vehicles, chase down exposed infantry and follow artillery fire back to its origin in order to target Russian howitzers.

And today one of the small quadcopter drones—remotely steered by an operator wearing a virtual-reality headset—shot down a Russian helicopter, apparently for the first time.

Photos and videos that circulated on social media depict the Mil Mi-8 transport helicopter burning near Donetsk in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. “A speedy recovery to the survivors,” one Russian blogger wrote.

This new use of explosive drones has been a long time coming. As long ago as September, Ukrainian operators first tried ramming their flying robots into Russian helicopters mid-flight. The drone threat got so serious that the Russian air force began assigning some helicopters to escort other helicopters.

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[–] Weirdmusic 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Be careful what you "wish" for.

[–] ashok36 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not wishing at all. As soon as it happens, they'll outlaw all drones. They won't be covered under the 2nd amendment of course.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They won't be covered under the 2nd amendment of COurse.

What if I strap a gun? Then it's patriotic and family friendly!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I have a constitutional right to glue an Uzi to a quadcopter to protect my GMC Sierra

[–] lennybird 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I would be absolutely astonished if as part of the no-fly zone established at these rallies that they don't have frequency jammers at the very minimum.

I feel it's only a matter of time before they put a plexiglass bunker surrounding the president at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We're getting to the point where even a frequency jammer might not stop an AI piloted drone. Just teach the drone what a 'rally' looks like and where the target typically stands, and then launch it. No radio or GPS signals required.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All of the public events now have some heavy anti drone measures set up. Like the Olympics currently.

I'm not sure how this works as they often rely on drones for filming though. So it's not jamming.

[–] lennybird 1 points 4 months ago

Possibly whitelisted frequencies that must hop in a certain pattern to avoid jamming?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Consumer drones already exist, that can recognize you by face and follow you.

[–] lennybird 1 points 4 months ago

I was reading a company in Ukraine has completed a functioning drone that does just this. Basically permits it to fire-and-forget as it has basic optimal image recognition built into a chip. Crazy.

Alternatively if you knew the target's static location, you could bypass GPS and controller jamming by utilizing good 'ol fashioned orienteering principles with an accelerometer, compass, and provided coordinates.

[–] Maggoty 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For that rally they didn't have it. It's in the report. And yes the entire security world spit their coffee out when we found that out.