Tausend Scharfschützen am Himmel: Der neue Krieg in der Ukraine | Drohnen verursachen jetzt etwa 70 Prozent der Todesfälle und Verletzungen, sagen Kommandeure
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/03/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-drones-deaths.html
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„Drones now kill more soldiers and destroy more armored vehicles in Ukraine than all traditional weapons of war combined, including sniper rifles, tanks, howitzers and mortars, Ukrainian commanders and officials say.
Drones armed with shotguns are now shooting down other drones. Antiaircraft drones are being designed to take out surveillance drones flying higher in the sky. Larger drones are being developed to serve as motherships for swarms of small drones, increasing the distance they can fly and kill.
The Ukrainians make use of a wide range of explosives to arm drones. They drop grenades, mortar rounds or mines on enemy positions. They repurpose anti-tank weapons and cluster munitions to fit onto drones, or they use anti-personnel fragmentation warheads and others with thermobaric charges to destroy buildings and bunkers.
Surveillance drones that guide themselves with A.I. — instead of being remotely operated by radio — are starting to take flight, too.
Ukraine often sends its drones to hunt in “wolf packs,” hoping the lead drone can blast a path for those that follow.“
Everyone should listen to the stories of the Israelis using drones in Gaza. The purpose of this comment is not political just the real tactical experience of drones going door to door hunting down people in the streets.
The terror they described was straight out of the terminator future world.
The nature of war is changing entirely and the way these can now hunt soldiers and citizens alike is terrifying
It sounds like a very pleasant future. I can’t wait for AI to be 1000x more capable than any human and blindly obey the order of any wannabe king.
Can’t wait for all accountability being taken out of war and some billionaire asshole deciding to let these drones loose on the general population.
You wait till we start having lunatics building armed drones and going for a fly down the road. Quite a probable, damn upsetting problem.
What is stopping soldiers in Ukraine from keeping portable jammer with them? I remember a story of a guy who spent a few grand on an old truck, then built a simple jamming set up in the back of it by blasting energy on all frequencies and completely disrupted comms in a practice scenario.
Why can’t they do that for drones? You’d have no communication while it’s on but surely you could just turn it off briefly to communicate when it’s sage then turn it back on right?
Time to start making carbon filiment shotgun shells
The future is here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU)
A passing fad in warfare that will quickly be solved with another generation of counter-drone technology. Falling for articles with headlines like these designed to spur defense stocks and expand the military industrial complex.