Cannot wait to see 8K drone footage from Ukraine
On average the commercial drones in Ukraine survive 3 missions. I doubt anyone would spend the price of 5 mavic drones just to have more pixels at a trench.
3 flights actually seems pretty good given the conditions-- I suspect they aren't walking out to fetch any crashed or malfunctioning devices in an active combat zone and the analog video signals are exceptionally easy to interfere with.
The RC control channel is unencrypted and the video feed is analog. If I'm being attacked by FPV drones I'll take a freshly certified ham radio operator over a world champion duck hunter any day.
This is completely wrong, as long as you're talking about the most common drones in Ukraine, the DJI Mavic Mini and Mini 2.
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1607790/FULLTEXT...
For these types of drones all the consumer and FOSS control links are unencrypted and critically vulnerable to frequency hopping hijacking attacks [4]
The video and control for all of these systems (including DJI) can be disrupted by jamming consumer and hobbyist frequencies; 300-975mhz, 2.4ghz, and 5.8ghz.
As with any information coming from active modern war zones, the incidence of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda will be high.
[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/03/24/russia...
[2]https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/03/24/...
[3]https://dronedj.com/2023/03/01/ukraine-reportedly-assembles-...
[4]https://www.vox.com/2016/10/28/13406082/hackers-control-cons...
It's there.
> stuff I really wish I hadn't seen
Or hadn't read.
Your choice to visit "/combatfootage" doesn't match your wish not to have seen combat footage. What did you expect? Non-combat footage?
We shouldn't advocate for censorship. We should advocate for more common sense on the user's side.
I never watch gore and shock videos, but I've read about plenty of them and even the descriptions of what's in them haunts me, even after years and years I can't get them out of my head. This thread has added a couple of those now...
I watched a lot of combatfootage previously that wasn't as traumatic but the use of small drones in ukraine with grenades has upped the level of very close range footage to a new level in ukraine.
At the same time I do think freedom of speech is important, I think everyone who wants to should be able to see ISIS beheading videos or whatever so we know what barbarism is possible and to fight against it. But that doesn’t mean I want to see it all the time.