The commander’s name is Robert Magyar.

Numbers may rise as rescue work is still ongoing.

That’s why they’re often called Mopeds

Thumbnails are broken now using mobile.

https://files.catbox.moe/vbncft.mp4

It’s politically embarrassing for Putin to start 2025 with Ukraine still holding Russian territory.

From Kyiv Post

Russia’s kamikaze meat assault strategy ramps to record level, with the past 24 hours hitting the highest number of Russian personnel losses of the war, 1950 casualties.

Previous records

1770  November 11, 2024 1740  May 13, 2024 1710  October 21, 2024 1690  October 26, 2024 1680  October 28, 2024 1660  November 9, 2024 1630 October 25, 2024

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That’s a drone detector beeping.

I believe a [Combat] tag/flair in the title would be a fair compromise.

It appears that lemmy.today has blocked the community.

Disregard, see comment below. Lemmy.today instance admins marked the community NSFW.

Mandatory military service in Russia lasts only 12 months and is required for men aged 18 to 30. To maintain troop levels, Russia has to rely on paid contract soldiers in addition to conscripts.

Muscles react slower than electric motors.

UAV

Relevant funny video from today

There are contact trigger wires that protrude from the front of the drone.

Yes, it’s a blurred-out watermark of a Russian channel.

A little from column A, a little from column B.

Yes, they produce them about equally, but issues with corruption and bureaucracy in Russia hamper their use.

Russia’s offensive strategy is to use constant “meat assaults” to gain ground via attrition. The most efficient way to defend against that is with cheap FPV drones. The net effect is drone videos of hundreds of Russian troops dying per day.

Anything under 5kg that goes burns or goes boom has been attached to an FPV drone at this point. The most effective against infantry are the 3D printed ones that use ball bearings.

They do sometimes get caught on a net, but some brands have remote triggers. Magyar uses them a lot in his videos.

These have been used in terror attacks for some time, but it’s becoming far easier and cheaper. They even sell the grenade dropping mechanism on Amazon.