Love it. It is really cool to see those explosions from a distance but to see the POV leading up to it is chefs kiss. Something about seeing all the ammo and equipment about to blow up.
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Yes!, and the way the drone looks for best way in is pretty neat as well.
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It's gonna be crazy once police start using these on civilians.
Drone warfare is insane. A small flying machine equipped with an explosive can cause massive damage for little cost. Those tanks don't come cheap. The landscape of anti-tank warfare has completely changed.
The whole landscape of warfare has changed.
And disturbing as fuck as well when you see how the IDF is using them in Gaza.
Fr. Tanks are nowadays seem to be used more as up-armoured mobile artillery.
There is quite a bit of that, but don't forget the videos that have circulated of one or two tanks stopping entire columns of IFV's and APC's.
Also in modern warfare, the tank is a devastating, well armoured and highly mobile system, that you need specialised equipment to take out. If you're taking line-of-sight fire from a tank, you probably don't have time to wait for a drone to come and hit it.
I do wonder how tanks will be upgraded to deal with small drones though. Just adding more topside armour probably isn't viable, but development of something (like TROPHY) probably already started around when top-attack weapons like the Javelin began proliferating.
I probably doesn't take much to make a hardkill-system be able to take on drones.
I've been thinking the same: Drones are small, cheap, accurate and pack a heavy punch. At the same time, they're slow, loud and unarmoured, which should make them relatively easy to detect, target and take down with real cheap means. Those means just need to be developed.
Perhaps closing the hatches might be a start.
Russian tanks have really poor crew ergonomics and bad visibility so having the hatch open is preferable. And bad discipline, training and tactics have the crew open them when they shouldn't.
I was wondering why they were circling around it when it's low-armor butt is right there. Then it zeroed in on the open hatch. Can't go lower than zero armor!
Maybe I've been watching too much Top Gear but I totally imagined a bunch of operators huddled around the screen with one going "what are you waiting for, hit it" and the other going "wait, no, what if they left it open".