Pilots from the 25th Airborne Brigade landed an FPV drone next to the invaders’ shelter door and waited for them to come outside.

Wilshire · edit-2 2 months ago

Pilots from the 25th Airborne Brigade landed an FPV drone next to the invaders’ shelter door and waited for them to come outside.

@jws_shadotak · 2 months ago

The added cost and weight of a solar panel might not be worth it

@[email protected] · edit-2 2 months ago

What about landing the drones in a hung position between exposed electrical power transmission wires? Like lurking death bats.

Unlimited lurk time, and they could just activate and be flown off home if the power goes out for too long.

They would need a way of lowering the input voltage, but it can probably be done.

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

there is a demo for powerline maintenance that does just that! it only needs to hang on to one wire too. quite a bit bigger than the fpv attack drones ukraine is using though.

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

That’s awesome confirmation. It’s able to pull 50 W of power just off of one wire. The clamp mechanism is a bit big, but it can probably be left behind when it goes after a target.

The future is going to be scary.

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

Wouldn’t even tiny panels help to some degree? My calculator has a tiny strip at the top that doesn’t add a significant weight and powers it.

Presumably with lurk it would just be sitting there for days so even a small not heavy panel could be of some use.