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An FPV operator of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroys two AFRF fighters at once with one drone.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And one other point. I would guess that at this point, Ukraine probably has people review and edit the videos to avoid leaking important information. They probably have spent time looking at what to cut. But I still feel like there's likely a good argument that some of the information should be censored.

For example, I think that that number in the right is a "distance traveled" number. That's going to tell someone viewing the video -- assuming that the drone flew in a fairly-straight line to reach the target -- about how far away the launching point is. It may be that the way this works is that the drone operators are not at the location that the drone is being launched from, that there are some "field guys" that transport the drone to the launch point, and the "office guys" that fly it, with a radio relay being set up. Maybe the field guys "shoot and scoot", so that that information doesn't say much about where the drone people are by the time that the video comes out. But even general knowledge of how close the "field guys" are getting seems like it might be useful information, give Russia an idea as to where to have recon drones look. Ditto for the battery meters, which gives an idea of the range of the weapons.

I mean, Ukraine could put out the video, make the point that they hit the guys, but not provide any of that information.