❗️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
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.
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
It’s a recoilless anti tank launcher. The force goes out the back so there’s no real force on the tube itself.
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)_/¯
One can dream of a time where all fighting is just done by drones without any human casualties but right now painful truth is that the only two modern armies are russia and Ukraine. If russia wanted to orc up some more places, they would have a huge advantage thanks to the drones as rest of EU is not ready to deal with the drones.
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.
Foreign fighters and drone operators often urge NATO to start retraining troops and working out new doctrines for the drone era, as small drones make even the smallest things obsolete. according to the interviews with the foreign fighters nato troops are not trained to even move through an area filled with or react properly to enemy drones.
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.
Drones are the future of warfare and have changed it as much as planes, tanks or machineguns have. With russia constantly threatening to invade and mass murder everyone bordering it, the best time to start retraining troops would have been yesterday.
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.
One can home foreign warriors come back home and train a new generation fast enough
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.