CDRMITTENSWhich ones of you had the "air-to-air kill of a crewed aircraft by an FPV drone" on your 2024 bingo card?
verity_kindleThe drone fired an RPG or the drone crashed into the copter carrying an RPG? THE PHYSICS.
mars296If the picture is accurate it would have to have crashed into it.
Match!!save a lot of money if you just have a grenade and propel it yourself
Good luck hitting your target. With the drone even if you miss you can fly it back to safety until there is a new target too. Neither is meant for this type of combat and this case was probably just luck and an opertune target. The drone probably wasn't launched specifically to take out the aircraft.
Rocket-propelled drone when?
… oh god, that’s just the toon gun from Roger Rabbit. It’s a bullet that can stop and ask for directions.
Rocket-propelled drone
That’s called a missile
Missiles are very good at the go go go but not so good at the stop.
They’ve got one way and it’s not the sort of trick you can repeat.
The invention of the suicide bomber (circa 2024, colourised)
Didn’t rpg literally stand for rocket propelled grenade
No, it stands for Role Playing Game. The drone was role-playing as a suicide bomber, keep up.
LARP “fireballs” might work if delivered directly to the intake.
A true example of the action economy in combat.
Sadly no, it stands for “Ruchnoĭ protivotankovyĭ granatomet,” or “Hand Held Anti-tank Grenade Launcher” in English.
Yup
Kind of amazed the drone was going fast enough to trigger the impact fuse. but no propellant so couldn’t be fired
Presumably they tamper with the charge so a fast impact isn’t needed. Y’know, because what would be the point otherwise, regardless of the target.
I’d also assume they just flew the thing near the hovering helicopter and triggered it remotely, that would do the trick.
Or maybe they hit the blades?
It’s not mutually exclusive.