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Comment by zzzeek | Hacker News Reader

these shipping containers seem to be automated, with roofs that blow off, launching drones, then the container itself self-destructs

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1929166249348476968

video of the self-destruct: https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lq...

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Weird, it only shows one drone coming out. Do they come out one at a time? When I think launching a drone swarm deep inside a country, I imagine the top blowing off and thousands of drones swarming out at once like insects.

There’s at least one other video where you can see the drones flying out one after the other, with like 10 second delay. Launching one at a time needs fewer pilots and has no risk of collisions that might set off a chain reaction. They’re clearly not in a hurry since who’s going to go near a truck full of high explosive drones anyway.

Not true, not being in a hurry hurt one of the operations. "Russians climbed onto a truck in an attempt to prevent the takeoff of FPV drones and the attack on the airbase". https://nitter.net/bayraktar_1love/status/192916791054458931...

This is same parking lot from video of drones taking off

https://nitter.poast.org/Osinttechnical/status/1929149970566...

its after the attack and drones gone. Those idiots were lucky, there is another video from a truck that malfunctioned and caught fire on side of the road. russian forces the door, enters and boom. Appeared booby trapped.

Indeed. I stand corrected.

Oh yeah I forgot about pilots

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