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Watching some of the UKR and RUS drone bombers by 88_92WSND

in some cases, all the overhead cover does is contain the explosion. Even a bunker with an opening on the reverse face of the trench is vulnerable to a quadrotor swinging around and flying right in.

Saw footage today from an observation drone. Russian soldier sitting in a shell hole with some dirt piled up, some branches pulled over it. Rifle at his feet, looked like he was eating lunch. Small first person video drone with probably an RPG warhead comes in from behind him, hits him on the shoulder. When the smoke cleared, the shell hole was empty.

How the hell do you deal with that? I mean, historically you had a chance of catching a bad break when a mortar shell with your number came down, but this is freaking aimed right at you. It will follow you. It will come back again if it misses. That's just malignant. And that's just while it's still got a human in the loop. When it goes full autonomy with IR/thermal sights...fuuuuuu