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DIY-HP-LED
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2-5 kg payload and up to 120km range, it can be laser cut from a cardboard by a dirt-cheap robot and assembled with tape, hot glue and rubber bands. The propulsion system, FC, GPS, servos, and battery can be had for a hundred bucks in bulk, and they can even be assembled by volunteer kids FFS!
You would not want 2kg of plastic explosive going off anywhere near you and if in a trench or a confined space the blast effects would be worse.
How Zelensky’s Forces Are Using Stealthy Cardboard Drones To Bleed Russian Forces In The Ukraine War
100,517 views Mar 30, 2023 UKRAINE
Ukrainian troops have been using Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS) drones that are made out of cardboard. At least 100 of the flat-packed drones are being supplied to Ukraine each month, as per a report by The Australian. These cardboard UAVs allow Ukrainian forces to drop bombs, deliver supplies and undertake vital reconnaissance missions. Watch the video to find out what the Precision Payload Delivery System is?
You would not want 2kg of plastic explosive going off anywhere near you and if in a trench or a confined space the blast effects would be worse.
How Zelensky’s Forces Are Using Stealthy Cardboard Drones To Bleed Russian Forces In The Ukraine War
100,517 views Mar 30, 2023 UKRAINE
Ukrainian troops have been using Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS) drones that are made out of cardboard. At least 100 of the flat-packed drones are being supplied to Ukraine each month, as per a report by The Australian. These cardboard UAVs allow Ukrainian forces to drop bombs, deliver supplies and undertake vital reconnaissance missions. Watch the video to find out what the Precision Payload Delivery System is?
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Flat-pack ordnance! Ikea goes to war
DIY-HP-LED
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An origami terror, dirt cheap and invisible to radar. You can make a better stronger one with regular cardboard or waxed, if you laminate the wings and fuse with 2" clear packing tape. I posted the kinds of parts and how much they cost, and with a bit of training a Ukrainian boy scout or girl guide group could assemble the kits. It's that simple and basic when you have FCs, GPS and use electric propulsion, give me a war wrecked tesla and I could give you a Helluva lot of Li-on 3 or 4S battery packs for drones! The laser cutters that can cut out sheets of cardboard and balsa are ridiculously cheap these days too. If ya set up an assembly line of kids, who knows how many of these things they could crank out in a day!
I don't favor child labor, but getting volunteers for this in Ukraine would be a breeze...
DIY-HP-LED
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Laminate it with muffler tape, gas power it and send it to Moscow to bait SAMs at 100 bucks a shot, mix in a few lethal ones with the same radar profile to keep them on their toes and firing expensive missiles at cardboard drones headed for the Kremlin...
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Muffler tape is the metalized stuff?Laminate it with muffler tape, gas power it and send it to Moscow to bait SAMs at 100 bucks a shot, mix in a few lethal ones with the same radar profile to keep them on their toes and firing expensive missiles at cardboard drones headed for the Kremlin...
DIY-HP-LED
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Aluminum tape reflects radar very well and a small cardboard drone covered in it will reflect bigger than a big drone with HE made of composite. A hundred of these mixed with a few explosive bigger ones headed for the Kremlin every night would get Vlad's attention.
A swarm of them hitting the victory parade on May 9th in red square would be a legitimate target with those tanks, ranks of goose steppers and Vlad standing in front of Lenin's tomb... Small gasoline engine powered carboard drones (not covered in aluminum tape) could reach Moscow carrying a Kg of explosives each and a hundred of them could swarm the big parade without warning over a few minutes causing mayhem on Russian TV, paint them Blue and Yellow... Ya might have to custom design the airframe to be bigger, but it is doable and cheap!
DIY-HP-LED
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I measured the straight-line distance from about 10km inside Ukraine's border to Moscow, about 290 miles, about 3 hours flight time for a cardboard gas-powered drone moving at 100 mph. There are a variety of cheap strong materials that can be used for cheap construction however, there are many modern options and a large number of potential designs.
BudmanTX
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well someone is gonna have a bad night in UA.....
buh bye!
buh bye!
BudmanTX
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that's something new, puts sending nudes to a whole different spotlight
www.jpost.com
Ukrainian hackers use Russian officer's wife's nude photos to gather intelligence
Mrs. Atroshchenko agreed to surprise the regiment with a pinup calendar, thinking she was speaking with an officer rather than Ukrainian hackers.
www.jpost.com
printer
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that's something new, puts sending nudes to a whole different spotlight
Ukrainian hackers use Russian officer's wife's nude photos to gather intelligence
Mrs. Atroshchenko agreed to surprise the regiment with a pinup calendar, thinking she was speaking with an officer rather than Ukrainian hackers.
Software does not like png files.
Wait, did it work? They all do not look like a very happy bunch. Probable have not had it for a while.
BudmanTX
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thanks printer, there's some lookers in there
Software does not like png files.
Wait, did it work? They all do not look like a very happy bunch. Probable have not had it for a while.
DIY-HP-LED
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RUSSIANS ARE WORRIED - UKRAINIAN MILITARY IS ALREADY USING US JDAM BOMBS || 2023
DIY-HP-LED
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'Here is hell! You will die!' – Russian POW prisoner from 'Wagner' confession
6,222 views Mar 31, 2023 #UATV #UATV_English #UkraineNews
Edgar Jabs – Russian POW from the infamous 'Wagner Group' mercenaries. He was sentenced to 8 years in a strict regime colony, and in November 2022 he was recruited into the Wagner PMC. The Russian POW is sick with HIV, as he himself said. During the selection for the PMC, the commission knew about this but recognised him as 'fit for military service.'
He spoke about how commanders sent the 'Wagner' prisoners to certain death, and about starvation in the Russian army.
'Don't come here. It's hell here. You'll just die. If you're in prison, you'd better serve your term there. Don't come here. Think about it before it's too late,' – the POW said.
DIY-HP-LED
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The Drone That Was Banned From War
118,997 views Mar 31, 2023 #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
The use the DJI Mavic drones was so effective during the Russo-Ukrainian war, that the company which made the drones banned its sale to Ukraine and Russian.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
like their artillery supplies merchants, they might consider using a shell corporation.
DIY-HP-LED
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It is not hard to make your own equivalent from parts, even the fancy camera, but they can be easily bought here and sent to Ukraine by volunteers, and they break down into two basic types, the Mavic commercial drone people and the RC plane FPV drone people and the Ukrainians have far more support from the international hobby group. The FPV hobby is very international with racing competitions and drone freestyle videos posted online and cinematic stuff. People meet online and take their vacations to places where the drone laws are lax and they know the local community, often in poor countries and gifts are brought along etc. Regulations have put a real damper on the sport, but the war in Ukraine illustrates why.
So, there is a large international community of hobbyists and others supporting the effort with donations, drone and parts which people have laying around mailed out to them. As I've posted, you can order this shit or parts especially from China on Alibaba by the shipping container load. The Ukrainian military and government have also realized that a million bucks buys more dead Russians with FPV drones than with switchblades. Most of the time they don't need the extra range and capability when a cheaper DIY solution is at hand and works.
This is changing the nature of war, from disposable cardboard drones to starlink controlled high-end reconnaissance drones and all the commercial products used for war purposes, dual use technology including cellphones and commercial drones of all types from FPV, to Mavic types, the Agricultual octocopters that can carry 50Kg of payload to stalk Russian tanks and troops at night, to RC planes of all sizes and types too, both gas and electric.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I must say, those FPV folks are demoing a game-changer. Our generation’s iteration of this.
