In the face of death, the occupiers show their true essence. They throw their helmets hysterically, fight back with automatic weapons, try to escape, but get what they deserve. A forest of EW antennas on the back of one of the occupiers did not help to escape from the "penal sanctions" of the soldiers of the "Rarog" Battalion of the 24th OMBr.

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[–] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Horta@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh, interesting. The disadvantages of the centralised vs distributed approach really makes sense here.

The Russian tactics seem like total madness. Might have worked in WWII still but looking at the videos in this community, surely they will eventually have to run out of vehicles and willing men (if they haven't run out of the latter already).

Ball bearings, Jesus.

I wasn't aware they had been used in terror attacks, but I saw an article about an attempted assassination of Maduro on the site you linked.

I'll take your word on that Amazon link, disturbing shit.

Are these attacks on single soldiers tactically relevant too, or is it mainly intended as a psychological weapon, knowing that these things could hunt you down and you basically can't do anything against it? I'm not Russian, or a soldier, or in Ukraine but I'm scared of these things.

[–] LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

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