Meaty infantry assault actions!

This is what is happening in the Pokrovsky direction in the area of responsibility of the 47th separate mechanized brigade . Armored vehicles are protected by the Russian command, instead, they throw the Russians to the slaughter.

Strike Drone Company's Unmanned Systems Battalion repulses occupier attacks with FPV. In this way, drone operators prevent the accumulation of Russians.

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[–] SkyezOpen 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You realize fpvs only have a few km range right? This isn't some predator drone operator clapping cheeks from California, they're in this shit too.

What should they do instead? Risk going closer to Russian lines to try to take them captive? Let them stumble into Ukrainian infantry and get shot? Let them return to their own lines to get sent out again? They may not be an effective fighting force, but they are still a problem.

[–] slickgoat -3 points 2 months ago

That's a legitimate argument.

I still don't buy it for the reasons already mentioned.

[–] slickgoat -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm an Australian.

In the first world war the Australian's had an iron clad rule, one well known to the Germans. If Australians managed to reach the enemy's trenches in an assault, they refused to accept a machine gunner's surrender.

You don't get to shoot down your opponents from relative safety and then expect mercy at the very end. Machine Gunners were an elite force of the German Army. They wore special patches denoting their status. That is, the gunner's not facing the Australian lines. Those machine gunners tended not to wear their status on their uniform. They tended not to survive capture if they did.

There was an element of hypocrisy in all this too. The Australians also had machine gun battalions. But the difference was that we accepted the rules. Perhaps if drone operators started getting shot out of hand on capture it wouldn't be so bad? Seems reasonable to me.

[–] SkyezOpen 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ukrainian captives are tortured killed and starved regardless so I don't think your point stands. You talk about rules like Russia isn't treating the geneva convention articles like a checklist. Not to mention Russia has no right to be there in the first place. It's hard to feel bad for them when they've already raped, looted, and destroyed their way across Eastern Ukraine to even get where they are now.

Now on a human level, I do feel bad for those that are forced to the front against their will. But if you stack every one of them up against Ukrainian solders, civilians, and their very sovereignty, I'm gonna have to pick Ukraine every time.

[–] slickgoat -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a justification for murder.

"We're bad, they're worse".

I'm not arguing about the Ukrainians defending themselves, but the methods on both sides are pretty shitty.

If you are intent on drone murder, own it without pleading. Doesn't matter which side you're on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

pretty shit? fuck off, you want each innocent ukranian to go to a war that they didn't start and die just because drones are "pretty shit"? the soldiers that didn't surrender deserved it

[–] slickgoat 1 points 2 months ago

By all means, go and enjoy your snuff films.