The ability for drone operators to function like this without depth perception is astounding to me. The end felt anticlimactic because I had so much trouble determining the scale of everything I was looking at.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
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Drone op (sort of, not dedicated but have for years as a camera op) here. It's difficult! You really have to get your bearings on the way up looking towards the horizon and then add up context clues based on the shifting scale as you move, kind of taking each object in relative to each other.
Lol kidding. We have a spotter 99% of the time. You're in goggles or watching a monitor, they're going "Stop. Left. Turn 40 degrees. Drop a few inches slowly. Stop." etc.
Nah. I accept your initial explanation as fact.
Love it
That totally makes more sense. I really liked the fake description as well. You definitely had me going.
It was fun, not my usual style lol
how soon until cheap drones have two cameras so operators can perceive depth directly?
When I started to need glasses in my 40s I noticed that my eyes are wildly different, so I had no depth perception at all for all my life before. You get used to using other clues.
I wonder what was the situation here. Looks like they placed two explosives on the camera-unit and took their sweet time to take that down. Isn't there operators around with shotguns to drop drones or any other kind of personnel on site? Additionally that Murom-M seems to be commercial system meant for building and area surveillance, not military use. That of course doesn't mean much, it can still be quite useful hardware.
Still, that scene with a bit better camera and action music could be a part of a movie, not something I'd expect from a war zone.
This is probably a remote border security post. Removing these blinds russian boarder security and causes them to have to spend manpower to replace the unit, and until they do, manned recon is needed to prevent Ukrainian boarder raids in that area.
This is tactically important. A small attack increases the work load for boarder guards... during a war. These attacks require a much more intensive response to repair than their cost. And while the systems are down, Ukraine can attack outposts, and sneak in agents, through that part of russia.
They're pretty much playing missions from video games.
Drone tech like this would have made those Farcry radio tower missions a fucking breeze.
Or GTA's helicopter missions... screw that timer
Noice!
The song is probably INTERWORLD - METAMORPHPSIS for anybody curious
Intense crane game action!
Years of training in the depths of Akiba's game centers have readied me for this moment