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Video from a Russian crew member aboard the "Caesar Kunikov" the night it sank on February 14th.
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Why do the drone boats weave and loop around so much? Seems like they're lingering in the "shoot me" zone.
Edit: could it be that they want to draw fire to themselves so other boats can move in instead?
I base this on absolutely 0 military experience BUT
Could be a distraction vessel to draw fire
Could be to give Russia a chance to use countermeasures and evaluate their effectiveness + come up with next Gen drone to mitigate current countermeasures
Could be that it is impossible to get a good video from a drone bouncing around in the water and they wanted to make contact with areas that ensure sinking
Could be a test to see how much punishment the drones can take while maintaining combat effectiveness
Could be that it's pure chaos and neither side has a great strategy aside from do/do no explode if possible
Either way, this footage is wild! Give em hell Ukraine!!
Apparently there is a 3 second lag too, so I bet it's better to turn (left, right, left right) than going straight with that kind of lag if you don't have a clear idea where you want to go.
Also the drone boats have different objectives, so if there us a filming-boat, it seems logic it'd turn a lot.
Armchair general Valmond ar your service.
Wow if it's really that high, then organizing an attack with 10 drones is extremely impressive!
I'd have hoped that the lag would be lower, because Starlink has a lower orbit than geosync satellites. My hunch would've been 100ms one way, for a complete round-trip delay of 0.5s at most.
I'd bet that after starlink was disabled once mid operation, they'd rather eat a donkey's dick than rely on Musk's ass again.
I imagine a bunch of drones zig-zagging around your ship in the middle of the night are much less predictable and harder to hit than if they are coming at you fast but in a straight line. You are bound to lose track of one of them in the chaos. There's also less of a risk that the drones blow each other up when one gets inevitably hit. Plus, there's probably a significant delay in the controls on top of the difficulty of steering an unstable watercraft like this.
Because watching that trigger a primal fear in me.
Fuck... that....