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    The war in Ukraine and Donbas

    Ukrainian designed drone detectors. Has operation frequencies for Lancet etc
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    The war in Ukraine and Donbas

    https://www.twz.com/air/russia-now-looks-to-be-using-wire-guided-kamikaze-drones-in-ukraine I have been waiting for this. Jaycar/Radioshack EFOGM......and I kinda dig it.
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    Any First Drone Recommendations?

    The only real solution to this one it to use an open flight controller system (pixhawk + ardupilot) or something similar. That pretty much eliminates everyones spyware. Probably not a 'first drone' thing though
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    Any First Drone Recommendations?

    I think they only make a few specific models in the USA (probably only solely so they can get the government contracts). The rest is .ch
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    Any First Drone Recommendations?

    I think Skydio is all American. And maybe some of the Autel/Parrot models as well. There are also a few smaller more specialised companies
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    Any First Drone Recommendations?

    Yeah, pretty comfortably under most conditions. Fog or misty rain seriously effect range though.
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    Any First Drone Recommendations?

    I have a mini mavic 2 and am reasonably happy with it as a first one. My only real gripes are related to the app: 1. Every time it updates (and sometimes just randomly) it logs you out of 'DJIfly' and you have to log back in before you can fly. Which isn't a big deal if you operate in areas...
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    The war in Ukraine and Donbas

    These could be interesting if they can make them in any quantity.
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    Sniping In The Ukraine

    Possibly. At 2:36 it looks like at least one guy is running handloads. While you can't read the headstamps, just going off memory the headstamp on those isn't 'crowded' enough to be hornady. Edit: At 15:16 you have different primers in what looks to be other handloads. I think this is just a...
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    Sniping In The Ukraine

    Is it just military guys? Or is it one of those competitions that you see in Europe sometimes where they combine the civilian long range guys and the military for informal comps? I only ask because there isn't any consistent uniforms between them and basically every model of high end rifle that...
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    The war in Ukraine and Donbas

    More pics of the new Shahed-238 dropped: Upgrades look to be: 1. Speed increase with addition of jet engine (although it doesn't look to be shielded?). 2. A more RCS friendly profile. All the sharp edges where body tube joined wings etc are gone. If I get bored/get time will do it in CAD and...
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    The war in Ukraine and Donbas

    I think it may have reached the point where they really have no idea what they are going to do, so they have just left the machine running while they try and work it out. The first plan was to keep Ukraine fighting long enough for the sanctions to bankrupt Russia which obviously didn't work...
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    Sniping In The Ukraine

    From the article: It is unclear what the jackets are made of or if they differ from space blankets made of Mylar. 🤨 I mean full credit to the Ukrainians for battlefield improvisation and all that, but I would have thought checking it's not just spraypainted space blankets before writing a full...
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    Fieldcraft Sniper war in Ukraine

    So even Aliexpress-tier jammers aren't available? Or have the Russians just worked out that always running their drones on 2.4ghz isn't a particularly good idea? So you are sniping from almost in the trenches? Not forward of the lines at all? Is it almost a WW1 style no-mans land?
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    Fieldcraft Sniper war in Ukraine

    How do you deal with 360 degree threat of drones? I know you have a thermal blanket in front, but how do you deal with top cover and sides? So when you say it's not synthetic, what exactly is it? When you said thermal sheet I just assumed you were repurposing Mylar sheets or something....
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    Fieldcraft Sniper war in Ukraine

    Why standing? Just vegetation height? I guess the PRS guys will feel vindicated that there tripod rear assembly is indeed practical for real world applications
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    Fieldcraft Sniper war in Ukraine

    FWIW - some advice for you..... Assuming you are who you say you are, your best option is to just come here and post what you want to post. If you want to tell/show everyone your experiences just come and do that. If you want to post questions/get help with certain elements of what you do ('how...
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    US halts exports of most civilian firearms for 90 days

    Yeah, I strongly doubt this is an effort to address that risk though. Particularly with the 'Ukraine' exemption (who are literally the biggest arms smuggling risk of all). I think it's more likely an attempt to screw the manufacturers in the wake of Maine. There may even be some backroom deal...
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    The war in Ukraine and Donbas

    That was related to the AI control statement, not the detection and tracking statement.......I understand that work is ongoing (and secret) on alot of the detection and tracking stuff - all I was trying to show was that merely changing the actually weapon used on these tanks wouldn't be 'the end...
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    The war in Ukraine and Donbas

    I'm kinda surprised that it has taken so long tbh. The bar for entry is super low. Basically any comp sci/software eng student with an AI interest and who isn't completely terrible at maths is all you need. Basically all the building blocks are out there in ready to use forms.