Ukraine claimed that its forces destroyed nearly 50 Russian tanks in one day, as Russia tried to capture Avdiivka, a small city in the east of the country.
The Ukrainian General Staff said that in one day of fighting, nearly 900 Russians were killed and 100 units of their armored equipment were also destroyed.
A video shared by Ukraine’s military on Friday appeared to show Russian tanks and armor being destroyed as they headed towards the eastern Ukrainian city.
By the looks of the videos I’ve seen, the Ukrainians have turned small drone warfare into an artform.
They use them to find the Russians from up high and either send artillery or other drones, and seem to have designed a sport like “from how high can you drop a grenade into an open hatch?”. I believe that any high, whirring sounds on the front will make Russians nervous in the future.
There was one account here on Lemmy saying that the drones cannot be heard due to ubiquitous tinnitus and the low range of high pitched noises.
That’s why those soldiers never react to drones flying overhead.
Even with good hearing you can fly consumer drones high enough that no one on the ground can hear them.
That high makes them pretty difficult to see as well.
You could probably use this as a tactic to cause mayhem on the front lines.
If there’s a line you are having difficulty pushing through just fly like 2 dozen cheap drones over head and soldiers may start to run just because they hear the whirring, the drones don’t even have to have grenades equipped, or maybe just a few so they hear some explosions.
From the clips I’ve seen, if this ever becomes an Olympic sport the rest of us have 0 chance.