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❗️First combat use of a drone with a grenade launcher

🔫Novopavlivka direction.

😷Pilots of the BULAVA unit from the 3rd Mechanized Battalion of our brigade successfully tested a drone with a mounted grenade launcher in combat conditions.

🔫In the video — confirmed elimination of an occupier at 00:34.

#3MB #opbr #drone #grenadelauncher

https://t.me/opbr_zsu/556

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First combat use of a drone with a grenade launcher in the AFU

Pilots of the BULAVA unit from the Separate Presidential Brigade named after B. Khmelnytskyi mounted a grenade launcher on the Queen Hornet drone and successfully used it against enemy infantry.

The video shows an occupier being eliminated.

That moment when an occupier received an exclusive death.

https://t.me/wild_hornets/2941

  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    2 months ago

    I’m surprised how little visible recoil there is, I assume they’ve got some sort of compensation built in ahead of the firing but still…. WW3 looks scary af

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      It’s a recoilless anti tank launcher. The force goes out the back so there’s no real force on the tube itself.

    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      2 months ago

      Fr. I mean, I type this from my armchair, but I think infantry is going to have a greatly diminished role in the (hopefully) hypothetical WW3. Maybe they’re no longer going to be used to take positions but rather just hold them after the drones have cleared it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          I can’t say anything certain, but I think it would be foolish to believe that the NATO militaries haven’t been watching intensely and working overtime on developing their own drone capabilities. Not to mention what they already had. A video posted years ago already showed an F16 (I seem to remember) that was equipped with a pod, from which it deployed a couple hundred drones that could be controlled simultaneously (i.e. a drone swarm).

          If that’s what was shown off before the current war started, I can’t imagine it’s any worse now.

          Not to mention that NATO militaries have been using various semi high-tech drones for years, so adapting to using a larger volume of cheaper drones shouldn’t be that large of a shift.

            • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              It’s definitely true that most NATO troops have never trained for battlefield situations where drones are everywhere, and most current NATO gear isn’t built with the idea in mind that drones will be constantly attacking them from above. NATO definitely has a lot of adapting to do.

              My point was just that light drone capabilities aren’t completely unknown to NATO, and that a lot of tech and doctrine had already been developed and implemented before the war. That should make it easier to adapt than if we were starting from scratch.

                • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  I know that Norway started training its standard infantry with light drones a year or two ago, I can only hope other NATO countries are doing the same.

      • Comment105@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        The third and final great war will come.

        It’s just a question of how many generations get to avoid it, living out full lives in the shadow of the threat of it.