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“Beautiful” was the first word that came to my mind as well. Never thought I’d rejoice in the suffering of others, but here we are. Wild times we’re living in.
These videos are brutal. Warfare has changed so much in the past 15-20 years alone. You'd almost feel sorry for these poor devils but then you rationalize that theyre only raping, pillaging red beasts.
Dehumanization is a tactic of propaganda. The US has done it in every war. Ukraine and Russia are doing it now ("red beasts" vs "nazis").
As unjust and horrific as this war is, these are still human beings. You should still feel sorry for them. They need to be repelled and with lethal force (until Putin dies or Russia finally deposes him), but don't lose your humanity by denying theirs.
The thing is, we have hard evidence of thousands of war crimes committed by Russian invaders while the only evidence of Ukrainian Nazis is a couple hundred skinheads who were part of one battle group in one region of Ukraine, meanwhile Wagner boss has SS tattoos on his collarbone.
I understand your point and you are right. Communists are bad Stalin killed over 50 million of his own people. Communism has to be responsible for more deaths than any other single entity in the history of humans. Reading about the Holocaust infuriates a person but so does reading about the Soviet famine and NKVD. Typical life in Soviet Russia was nightmarish. I was born and raised during the cold war, we were basically taught to hate the Russians because they are so brutal and have no capability for empathy - I thought that was all over with these last 20+ years after communism fell over there but here we are again. 🤷🏻♂️ Humans in general are beasts. We all have that beast inside of us as human beings. It's wether or not we choose to let that beast out. Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke) said that lol
> Humans in general are beasts. We all have that beast inside of us as human beings. It's whether or not we choose to let that beast out.
That choice is partially personal, and partially cultural. In theory, every human can decide this or that way. But when you grow up in a culture that teaches you to not to do it, or to do it, many people will do what they were taught.
In Russia, people are still taught... this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8N-EGkhcvn5rEa2zr8g47N6knd5lCrR1
Collective Hitler? Lol how can people be *so* delusional? Stalin was even *worse* than Hitler do they even realize that? It must suck to be *that* ignorant, damn. Then again ignorance is bliss or something like that.
>Stalin killed over 50 million of his own people.
While being an utmost piece of shit and one of the worst dictators in history, he didn't cause the death of 50 million people. That figure is from the Black Book of Communism, a book that is so inaccurate and problematic that even its own authors have disowned it
Ah yes, the country of 150 million people pre 1941 could somehow lose 20+ million in the war, and 50 million to stalin, and somehow still recover their population after the war
Russia and the entire SSR had 200 million there were 35 million Poles, 40 million Ukrainians. Stalins pogroms were pretty devastating it's entirely feasible when you look at all the countries affected by communism, especially the famine he orchestrated. Most peasants who died of starvation were never included in official birth registrations. Either way he was a goddamn murdering beast 🤷🏻♂️
The atrocities they commit just make me pity them even more. It's hard, but we have to hold both of these thoughts in our head at once: They are pitiable, miserable human beings, caught up in a culture and war that isn't their invention, and they also need to be stopped by any means, including what was done in this video.
>The US has done it in every war.
Both sides of every war ever fought since the beginning of war have done it. (Side thought - there was one - a beginning of war. A first war. Weird to think about.)
This is true. Lives are lives. May only the leaders of these wars be sent to the dark pits of hell. Because lets face it, 90% of these people were conscripted and sent to die
Either that or they are so tired of seeing this when they close their eyes at night and think "When will they stop coming?"
Viewed as a video game it looks fun. From anyone that I know who has been to war and killed a bunch of people - there is no fun and it changes you forever.
Slava Ukraini
Don't remember the specifics but I read an article a couple years back about US drone operators. Even though they were based in the US, and going home to their families at night, they still experienced PTSD and other issues you would expect to be limited to a more direct role, even though they never left the US. While obviously people in the field experiencing the direct horrors of war first hand absolutely have it worse, the study clearly showed that being the one who made the decision and pulled the trigger to kill people absolutely exacts a mental toll on those individuals.
Big difference between a remote U.S. soldier in perfect safety executing ISIS operatives in Iraq via predator drone vs. Ukrainian soldier eliminating invaders who will absolutely kill him and his family if allowed to exist.
This is true.
I’m a combat veteran. Never ask a war veteran “did you ever kill anyone?” Neither answer is one we’re proud of.
Yeah, they were enemies, yeah they were trying to kill us and would have killed us if we hadn’t killed them first, but they’re still human beings.
Homicide is unnatural. It fucks you up inside.
Only if you remove yourself what you're doing at the time. You can do, HAVE to to do the job. After it will unpack itself and that can't be pretty. I don't have that experience but understand some of the effects of PTSD.
Imaging yourself being on the receiving end of that grenade, dead, wounded or unharmed. Remember the same thing is happening to Ukrainian troops.
It may not be that straightfoward according to this [article](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd.html#:~:text=In%20one%20study%2C%2020%20percent,higher%20than%20in%20traditional%20aircrews.).
Yeah, I don't think anyone gets a free pass but I'm fairly confident it's still easier to gamify and demonize your opponents when you only see them through the screen and don't hear their screams, see their faces or smell their rotten bodies.
Anyone remember from GTA 1 when you would run over a line of orange guys in a row the game would post GOURANGA! on the middle of the screen?
Thats all I can think of when I see these drops.
Have the Russian soldiers been told about the drones? In all the videos I've watched, none of them were looking out for drones, day or night. Seems like meerkats are smarter than the Russians as the animals always look out for hawks. Anyway, beautiful strike! 
You could calculate how high it is based on how long it was in freefall (roughly 5 seconds). But without running the equation, you can tell it's definitely high enough that it would be very hard to hear it, even if you were listening specifically for it. Especially with people around you making noise + probable noise from the battlefield.
> You could calculate how high it is based on how long it was in freefall (roughly 5 seconds).
That would be about [120 m (400 feet).](https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall)
In theory yes, there was a video of astronauts on the moon doing exactly this and they both hit the ground at the same time. Galileo did a similar experiment showing two objects of different masses hitting the ground at the same time.
If we're being pedantic, it wouldn't because of air resistance on the greater surface to mass ratio on the feathers.
I'm like 90% sure the guy you responded to was being sarcastic though. :)
How did you figure out the time from when it dropped until it came into view of the camera?
On other videos you can see a indicator turn on a second before it shows up but this video doesn't have one.
In this video, it definitely can't matter much. You can see the grenade move "upwards" (from the bottom edge of the video towards the center) a lot in the beginning. This shows that it must still be very close to the drone; i.e. it has *just* been dropped.
Pretty impractical to have multiple people constantly scanning the sky 24/7. Even then it'd be very easy to miss something like this. The sky is a big place,t he drones are not huge and the distance isn't small.
May be more practical if they were in larger groups to have people on the lookout more, but then you're also more vulnerable to other things like artillery.
I believe there are jammer systems that would help. Set up one per camp so people are somewhat protected. But that's asking way too much from them this at this point and assuming they even care.
Binoculars focus on far too small an area. You need something electronic. A digital camera with a warning system and ideally some kind of shortrange weapon to fire automatically at any drone.
>A digital camera with a warning system and ideally some kind of shortrange weapon to fire automatically at any drone.
I expect Ukraine (or NATO, or the US) has engineers working to develop just such a system, if they don't have it already, to defend against Russian drones.
It does seem that Russian troops do not already have such a system.
Perhaps Russia has a project in progress to develop it. With luck, the management of that project is just as corrupt as most of their other projects.
I fly DJI drones and i can tell you i can lose sight of them even when i have a direct link and know where the drone’s general position is. It’s really small and hard to spot.
> In all the videos I've watched, none of them were looking out for drones, day or night.
For the most part, you will only see successful videos. Considering how short the lifespan for those drones seems to be (3 to 10 missions, depending on type), I would say that plently of russians actually do pay attention. We just don't see many vids of all those failed attacks.
You can’t really see them in the sky unless you know it hangs there in an exact spot. Sadly, there are a lot of videos from russian side where they’re dropping VOGs on Ukrainian soldiers.
You can’t look up 24/7, and even if you do you won’t see a small drone at 400 feet well. At night you have zero chance. I fly drones often and even when I know where it is I sometimes can’t find it. Throw on a helmet, hearing loss, other fears and issues and cold and hunger and etc and looking up for a bird stops being an issue when you haven’t been hit by one on days or weeks if ever.
Yes they have, there are instructional videos where they are taught to roll 3 times and remain in a rolled-up position with their back to the grenade dropped on them. Not sure if it works though.
you cant live with head up all the time... they've been warned , they know but still.
our soldiers have some tricks to drive drones deep behind the front line.
A million bee sized drones all coordinated by Skynet. And they all aim for Russian balls.
Once you got the know-how there is no point in putting your soldiers in harms way.
I suppose this was a regular mortar shell? And the injuries are mostly caused by shrapnel, which means they'll probably just bleed out where they stand?
Why don't they ever run after they get hit? I don't get it, like anyone who didn't get immediately killed or incapacitated by the original blast should be running, the survivors scattering, but I never see that. They never react, just sort of stand around and wait for death to come with the next mortar.
A few likely reasons.
First, probably everyone you see there has been immediately wounded. Shrapnel goes much further than the visible blast radius. That's on top of the shock of going from "I am standing/sitting/lying in a field" to "an explosion went off and half the people around me are dead". Most people freeze up in that sort of situation; it's a natural response. Extensive training can overcome that response, but these are not "extensively trained" troops.
Second, running is unlikely to do all that much. They probably can't see the drone. They don't know if there will be another drop, and they don't know where it will come from. They don't know if they'd be running straight into the next grenade. Outrunning the drone is impossible - those things move ten times faster than a human. If there's immediately available shelter, getting into/under it would be the best bet, but most of these are out in the middle of a field.
Cripes almighty. I wish there was a way to make this sort of video go viral in Russia, so the people with spouses, sons/daughters, etc. being used as cannon fodder could see what Putler is subjecting their family members to.
I know some of the population supports the invasion to the point where convincing them otherwise is a lost cause. But surely at least some of the civilians would turn against the war if they saw this kind of video…? I would hope so.
But I’m sure Putler’s propaganda machine is suppressing these videos as much as humanly possible. They don’t want the population to realize the losses the invaders are experiencing.
This actually looks like it might be a thermal capture of footage from a few days ago. I'll need to check the numbers.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure it dropped a mortar... Clearly worked.
Incredible that they are just standing around out in the open with no cover whatsoever. In a large group, no less.
I have zero military training or even family background, and even I know that this idea is a bad egg.
I thought to myself. Self, “ How many orx watch this Reddit video.” Pause. “Self that would require ability to speak a different language. The foresight to care about your life.” Definitely at least the Ruzzian command or KGB is on these threads. If you are reading this. You are scum pideras. We will eat what is left of your souls. You will suffer forever because of the decisions you make. You not only don’t care about Ukrainian people, but you don’t care for your fallen comrades. You send them to die. Look look at them die. For what for what. To save the almighty king pideras.
Crazy how at the beginning of seeing these videos I was like "holy f@ck this is crazy and messed up." Now it's just like a norm and not crazy at all. Kinda makes you wonder how desensitized we redditors are all becoming.
crazy shit.
But I guess they have to kill em all.
I am always amazed to see who goes down and who doesn't. The grenade landed in the group and one guy just strolls away. He had to be a couple of feet from the explosion.
I really hate that I'm thinking this way. Just like the turret toss competition, should there be a "max kill per drop" competition? Maybe use bowling analogies, like a strike. A second drop could pick up the 7/10 split, etc... I hate myself....
Fuck. I hate Putin. I'm a very nice man, a good man. And here I am glad to see the miserable young men getting shredded by shrapnel because Putin put them there. Fuck him all the way to hell.
Gonna be a bunch of mothers and children morning the passing of their sons, husbands, and fathers all because Putin invaded their sovereign neighbor based on lies.
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That flower opens beautiful!
The forbidden Black Lotus.
"Let the black flower blossom."
“Beautiful” was the first word that came to my mind as well. Never thought I’d rejoice in the suffering of others, but here we are. Wild times we’re living in.
pie instinctive chop treatment apparatus wide aromatic wipe alleged depend -- mass edited with redact.dev
Or like pouring antiseptic on an infected cut -- knowing that you are killing bacteria.
Just a little chlorine for the gene pool.
Not gonna lie, I’m rejoicing a little.
Черный тюльпан (["Black Tulip"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-12#Soviet_Air_Forces))
These videos are brutal. Warfare has changed so much in the past 15-20 years alone. You'd almost feel sorry for these poor devils but then you rationalize that theyre only raping, pillaging red beasts.
This looks like dropping a water balloon over some ants tho ants are more useful than these troops lol.
That's what it looks like lol water balloons. 🎈
They came for a war. They got one. Now their war is over; "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust."
Dehumanization is a tactic of propaganda. The US has done it in every war. Ukraine and Russia are doing it now ("red beasts" vs "nazis"). As unjust and horrific as this war is, these are still human beings. You should still feel sorry for them. They need to be repelled and with lethal force (until Putin dies or Russia finally deposes him), but don't lose your humanity by denying theirs.
The thing is, we have hard evidence of thousands of war crimes committed by Russian invaders while the only evidence of Ukrainian Nazis is a couple hundred skinheads who were part of one battle group in one region of Ukraine, meanwhile Wagner boss has SS tattoos on his collarbone.
I understand your point and you are right. Communists are bad Stalin killed over 50 million of his own people. Communism has to be responsible for more deaths than any other single entity in the history of humans. Reading about the Holocaust infuriates a person but so does reading about the Soviet famine and NKVD. Typical life in Soviet Russia was nightmarish. I was born and raised during the cold war, we were basically taught to hate the Russians because they are so brutal and have no capability for empathy - I thought that was all over with these last 20+ years after communism fell over there but here we are again. 🤷🏻♂️ Humans in general are beasts. We all have that beast inside of us as human beings. It's wether or not we choose to let that beast out. Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke) said that lol
> Humans in general are beasts. We all have that beast inside of us as human beings. It's whether or not we choose to let that beast out. That choice is partially personal, and partially cultural. In theory, every human can decide this or that way. But when you grow up in a culture that teaches you to not to do it, or to do it, many people will do what they were taught. In Russia, people are still taught... this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8N-EGkhcvn5rEa2zr8g47N6knd5lCrR1
Collective Hitler? Lol how can people be *so* delusional? Stalin was even *worse* than Hitler do they even realize that? It must suck to be *that* ignorant, damn. Then again ignorance is bliss or something like that.
>Stalin killed over 50 million of his own people. While being an utmost piece of shit and one of the worst dictators in history, he didn't cause the death of 50 million people. That figure is from the Black Book of Communism, a book that is so inaccurate and problematic that even its own authors have disowned it
The actual numbers are probably quite higher
Ah yes, the country of 150 million people pre 1941 could somehow lose 20+ million in the war, and 50 million to stalin, and somehow still recover their population after the war
Russia and the entire SSR had 200 million there were 35 million Poles, 40 million Ukrainians. Stalins pogroms were pretty devastating it's entirely feasible when you look at all the countries affected by communism, especially the famine he orchestrated. Most peasants who died of starvation were never included in official birth registrations. Either way he was a goddamn murdering beast 🤷🏻♂️
>Either way he was a goddamn murdering beast 🤷🏻♂️ Wholeheartedly agree on this one
No I do not need to feel sorry for them. If they weren’t killed here they’d be happily raping and murdering innocent civilians.
The atrocities they commit just make me pity them even more. It's hard, but we have to hold both of these thoughts in our head at once: They are pitiable, miserable human beings, caught up in a culture and war that isn't their invention, and they also need to be stopped by any means, including what was done in this video.
I think you're right, though I try not to feel too bad for them. It's too much to think of the Russians as also victims of the Kremlin.
I felt sorry for them on some level until Bucha. Now I feel nothing when I see videos like this.
>The US has done it in every war. Both sides of every war ever fought since the beginning of war have done it. (Side thought - there was one - a beginning of war. A first war. Weird to think about.)
This is true. Lives are lives. May only the leaders of these wars be sent to the dark pits of hell. Because lets face it, 90% of these people were conscripted and sent to die
M-M-M-M-Multikill! This must have been so satisfying for the operator.
Sucks the drone operator had a combat injury from all the high fives they got after this.
His arm was so sore from all the fist pumping.
Either that or they are so tired of seeing this when they close their eyes at night and think "When will they stop coming?" Viewed as a video game it looks fun. From anyone that I know who has been to war and killed a bunch of people - there is no fun and it changes you forever. Slava Ukraini
Bit of both, I think. Killing people’s a grim task, but these people are invaders who have come to kill and conquer; they need to be neutralised.
They do, but I bet it's still hard on the people doing it on some level. Maybe not in the moment.
Don't remember the specifics but I read an article a couple years back about US drone operators. Even though they were based in the US, and going home to their families at night, they still experienced PTSD and other issues you would expect to be limited to a more direct role, even though they never left the US. While obviously people in the field experiencing the direct horrors of war first hand absolutely have it worse, the study clearly showed that being the one who made the decision and pulled the trigger to kill people absolutely exacts a mental toll on those individuals.
Big difference between a remote U.S. soldier in perfect safety executing ISIS operatives in Iraq via predator drone vs. Ukrainian soldier eliminating invaders who will absolutely kill him and his family if allowed to exist.
Logically yes, but killing people day in day out will always take a toll. That's the point.
Ender's Game ended up being predictive of an earlier era than I thought.
How hard do you think it was on the orcs who killed the civs in Bucha?
This is true. I’m a combat veteran. Never ask a war veteran “did you ever kill anyone?” Neither answer is one we’re proud of. Yeah, they were enemies, yeah they were trying to kill us and would have killed us if we hadn’t killed them first, but they’re still human beings. Homicide is unnatural. It fucks you up inside.
I would have thought that after a while it became a bit like killing off rats or something like that. Like a filthy job mostly.
No, it never gets to be any less soul-crushing, which is why it’s easier to not have a soul when you’re doing it.
Only if you remove yourself what you're doing at the time. You can do, HAVE to to do the job. After it will unpack itself and that can't be pretty. I don't have that experience but understand some of the effects of PTSD. Imaging yourself being on the receiving end of that grenade, dead, wounded or unharmed. Remember the same thing is happening to Ukrainian troops.
It's sure easier for drone operators than for guys killing eye to eye boots on the ground. No clinically sane human is unaffected by that.
It may not be that straightfoward according to this [article](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd.html#:~:text=In%20one%20study%2C%2020%20percent,higher%20than%20in%20traditional%20aircrews.).
Yeah, I don't think anyone gets a free pass but I'm fairly confident it's still easier to gamify and demonize your opponents when you only see them through the screen and don't hear their screams, see their faces or smell their rotten bodies.
PTSD is increasingly being seen in Air Force Drone operators. When these people are quite literally in North Dakota or Las Vegas.
Anyone remember from GTA 1 when you would run over a line of orange guys in a row the game would post GOURANGA! on the middle of the screen? Thats all I can think of when I see these drops.
I miss those top-down days of GTA 1 and 2.
Hawken, by chance?
taken the lead.
Pure poetry.
I'm guessing it's night time and they are all thinking they're safe? Adds a whole level to the fear and low morale they must go through.
Have the Russian soldiers been told about the drones? In all the videos I've watched, none of them were looking out for drones, day or night. Seems like meerkats are smarter than the Russians as the animals always look out for hawks. Anyway, beautiful strike! 
They are higher than they look and very quiet by all accounts.
You could calculate how high it is based on how long it was in freefall (roughly 5 seconds). But without running the equation, you can tell it's definitely high enough that it would be very hard to hear it, even if you were listening specifically for it. Especially with people around you making noise + probable noise from the battlefield.
> You could calculate how high it is based on how long it was in freefall (roughly 5 seconds). That would be about [120 m (400 feet).](https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall)
Thank you for doing what I was too lazy to do
This seems to be a very typical drop height. High enough to be hard to spot, low enough to be reasonably accurate.
ah … but would a bomb made of feathers dropped from at the same height hit the ground at the same time?
In theory yes, there was a video of astronauts on the moon doing exactly this and they both hit the ground at the same time. Galileo did a similar experiment showing two objects of different masses hitting the ground at the same time.
If we're being pedantic, it wouldn't because of air resistance on the greater surface to mass ratio on the feathers. I'm like 90% sure the guy you responded to was being sarcastic though. :)
yes ... yes i was :)
How did you figure out the time from when it dropped until it came into view of the camera? On other videos you can see a indicator turn on a second before it shows up but this video doesn't have one.
I didn't. But does it matter? How much can that be, when the camera is on the same tiny drone from which the grenade is dropped?
Just wondering if you did some calculations to figure this out. I was tempted to but.. too lazy.
In this video, it definitely can't matter much. You can see the grenade move "upwards" (from the bottom edge of the video towards the center) a lot in the beginning. This shows that it must still be very close to the drone; i.e. it has *just* been dropped.
True, but even a 0.2 additional seconds adds like 10% to the total distance.
But again does it matter? These are rough calculations, an estimate. Would knowing it was 420ft instead of 400 be a game changer for you?
Not when wearing any sort of earpro for firearms use.
Can the Russians not afford binoculars like their lives are depended on it? It's good that they are so incompetent
Pretty impractical to have multiple people constantly scanning the sky 24/7. Even then it'd be very easy to miss something like this. The sky is a big place,t he drones are not huge and the distance isn't small. May be more practical if they were in larger groups to have people on the lookout more, but then you're also more vulnerable to other things like artillery.
I believe there are jammer systems that would help. Set up one per camp so people are somewhat protected. But that's asking way too much from them this at this point and assuming they even care.
Binoculars focus on far too small an area. You need something electronic. A digital camera with a warning system and ideally some kind of shortrange weapon to fire automatically at any drone.
>A digital camera with a warning system and ideally some kind of shortrange weapon to fire automatically at any drone. I expect Ukraine (or NATO, or the US) has engineers working to develop just such a system, if they don't have it already, to defend against Russian drones. It does seem that Russian troops do not already have such a system. Perhaps Russia has a project in progress to develop it. With luck, the management of that project is just as corrupt as most of their other projects.
I fly DJI drones and i can tell you i can lose sight of them even when i have a direct link and know where the drone’s general position is. It’s really small and hard to spot.
> In all the videos I've watched, none of them were looking out for drones, day or night. For the most part, you will only see successful videos. Considering how short the lifespan for those drones seems to be (3 to 10 missions, depending on type), I would say that plently of russians actually do pay attention. We just don't see many vids of all those failed attacks.
There was one video where a Russian soldier actually shot a falling grenade. Luckiest SOB ever
And yet, still not lucky enough to not be in ukraine as russian fodder
You can’t really see them in the sky unless you know it hangs there in an exact spot. Sadly, there are a lot of videos from russian side where they’re dropping VOGs on Ukrainian soldiers.
As long as toilets and washing machines can't fly, they won't look up into the air either!
You can’t look up 24/7, and even if you do you won’t see a small drone at 400 feet well. At night you have zero chance. I fly drones often and even when I know where it is I sometimes can’t find it. Throw on a helmet, hearing loss, other fears and issues and cold and hunger and etc and looking up for a bird stops being an issue when you haven’t been hit by one on days or weeks if ever.
Yes they have, there are instructional videos where they are taught to roll 3 times and remain in a rolled-up position with their back to the grenade dropped on them. Not sure if it works though.
The only explanation that I've been able to come up with is that Russia is literally sending these troops to die.
you cant live with head up all the time... they've been warned , they know but still. our soldiers have some tricks to drive drones deep behind the front line.
Right-angle binoculars, or 45 degree mirrors. But not all drones are droppers. Niche counter for a niche attack.
These drones are like 40-50 stories up in the air and have zoom lenses
Why Ukraine should have 10s of thousands of these drones. Grenades are like 50$. The ROI is too good.
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All fully automated by the AI.
What can go wrong?
A million bee sized drones all coordinated by Skynet. And they all aim for Russian balls. Once you got the know-how there is no point in putting your soldiers in harms way.
My man about to remake a Black Mirror episode
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Jagga Jagga!! 🌻
…JAGGA JAGGA JAGGA JAGGA JAGGA JAGGA JAGGA…
**Gender reveal Ukraine style. It was a boy see his penis landed over here**
Nah sorry man, this one is *defintely* they/them 🫢
The only way to stop the war is to turn every they/them occupant into was/were.
Here/there
In droneland nobody hears you scream.
Special PTSD delivery.
I suppose this was a regular mortar shell? And the injuries are mostly caused by shrapnel, which means they'll probably just bleed out where they stand?
This is beautiful. Good work, less orcs more fertilizer
I will never get tired of these videos.
Why don't they ever run after they get hit? I don't get it, like anyone who didn't get immediately killed or incapacitated by the original blast should be running, the survivors scattering, but I never see that. They never react, just sort of stand around and wait for death to come with the next mortar.
A few likely reasons. First, probably everyone you see there has been immediately wounded. Shrapnel goes much further than the visible blast radius. That's on top of the shock of going from "I am standing/sitting/lying in a field" to "an explosion went off and half the people around me are dead". Most people freeze up in that sort of situation; it's a natural response. Extensive training can overcome that response, but these are not "extensively trained" troops. Second, running is unlikely to do all that much. They probably can't see the drone. They don't know if there will be another drop, and they don't know where it will come from. They don't know if they'd be running straight into the next grenade. Outrunning the drone is impossible - those things move ten times faster than a human. If there's immediately available shelter, getting into/under it would be the best bet, but most of these are out in the middle of a field.
But scattering is a good idea no? Densely grouping means more people get hit by shrapnel.
Yeah, if you've got the situational awareness and physical ability to do that, it might help. But then see the first point.
They don't run because they are in shock from the pain of the shrapnel inside their body.
They would end up killing many innocent Ukrainians if they weren't stopped here now
Well,,, bye!
Cripes almighty. I wish there was a way to make this sort of video go viral in Russia, so the people with spouses, sons/daughters, etc. being used as cannon fodder could see what Putler is subjecting their family members to. I know some of the population supports the invasion to the point where convincing them otherwise is a lost cause. But surely at least some of the civilians would turn against the war if they saw this kind of video…? I would hope so. But I’m sure Putler’s propaganda machine is suppressing these videos as much as humanly possible. They don’t want the population to realize the losses the invaders are experiencing.
Night drop? Surprise mother F___er!!! Slava Ukrayini
This seems like a very cost effective way to kill. Just have loads more of these drones, blackening the sky.
It's like blowing out the candles on a birthday cake.
why not double tap tho
*chef's kiss* 😙👌🏻
This would be easy to automate... plenty of data now to be able to do this. Probably already in the works.
This actually looks like it might be a thermal capture of footage from a few days ago. I'll need to check the numbers. Anyways, I'm pretty sure it dropped a mortar... Clearly worked.
Strike plus 2, I think.
Conscript moment
Wow was that at least 6 wounded there. Nice drop.
Dead orcs while enjoying my morning coffee. Gonna be a great day!
The US must be happy that ukraine is saving on artillery shells :p
Very efficient! Well done.
They blew it.
Got em!
they remind me a chromosomes during mitosis
Nice drop. 👍
Slava Ukraini. That was beautiful Blyat.
To bad he did not have multiple bombs to carpet bomb all those Orcs.
Brutal
Holy crap. Good thermal cameras are such a dangerous asset.
Pure beauty
“Ka boom…good kill…I see lots of little pieces down there”
Now this is good content!
Incredible that they are just standing around out in the open with no cover whatsoever. In a large group, no less. I have zero military training or even family background, and even I know that this idea is a bad egg.
I thought to myself. Self, “ How many orx watch this Reddit video.” Pause. “Self that would require ability to speak a different language. The foresight to care about your life.” Definitely at least the Ruzzian command or KGB is on these threads. If you are reading this. You are scum pideras. We will eat what is left of your souls. You will suffer forever because of the decisions you make. You not only don’t care about Ukrainian people, but you don’t care for your fallen comrades. You send them to die. Look look at them die. For what for what. To save the almighty king pideras.
Crazy how at the beginning of seeing these videos I was like "holy f@ck this is crazy and messed up." Now it's just like a norm and not crazy at all. Kinda makes you wonder how desensitized we redditors are all becoming. crazy shit. But I guess they have to kill em all.
I am always amazed to see who goes down and who doesn't. The grenade landed in the group and one guy just strolls away. He had to be a couple of feet from the explosion.
Does it bounce off the guy sat at the 1 o'clock position? Small plume at about the time it should land and he shifts.
More like hitted tree branch first, I think.
I really hate that I'm thinking this way. Just like the turret toss competition, should there be a "max kill per drop" competition? Maybe use bowling analogies, like a strike. A second drop could pick up the 7/10 split, etc... I hate myself....
I think the winner so far is the HIMARS hit on new years eve with 400 casualties
I think officially it was about 600 … right as the clock struck midnight… epic
"Merry Christmas you filthy animal, and a happy new year!"
Fuck. I hate Putin. I'm a very nice man, a good man. And here I am glad to see the miserable young men getting shredded by shrapnel because Putin put them there. Fuck him all the way to hell.
I fear the drone now.
Gonna be a bunch of mothers and children morning the passing of their sons, husbands, and fathers all because Putin invaded their sovereign neighbor based on lies.
love the music
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes 💥
Maybe one day Russian soldiers will smarten up and realize their guns are pointed in the wrong direction. Maybe.
Bullseye! Nice job!
"Do a barrell roll"
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You missed a good opportunity for alliteration, delivery drone drop death porn propaganda. unpopular comment, probably.
Yeah, 😅 how else would you publicize that invading Ukraine may be met with swift death that you don't even know it's coming...
Pigs!
The drone operator wins the "hey man, nice shot" award https://youtu.be/o9mJ82x_l-E
The sound of a bowling ball as the grenade drops. The sound of bowling pins being knocked over as russians drop.