I droni termiti ucraini hanno colpito la prima linea in forze, ora operativi con diverse unità

Sources

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1831320689925648827

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1831071273499455869

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1831320691695665493

and some more footage that came out after i put these clips together

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1831323867308085593

Send em to the rigs ♡♡

Thermite for the Thermite God, Drones for the Drone Throne.

Looks like Ukraine is getting some good pest control in these woods!

I wonder what the effectiveness of them are. They’re flashy as fuck for sure, and id be painting my pants a solid fall brown color if it happened to me. But I’m really wondering how much they’re accomplishing. Guess they’re valuable at either flushing out entrenched positions, or exposing them.

Incredible that the drone can survive being so close to such an intense heat source. The thermite must be in some kind of crucible slung beneath the drone, but it is 2500C, less than a meter from a drone with sensitive electronics, and possibly plastic rotor blades. The airflow from the rotors is helpful, but there must be some very effective shielding against radiant heat. I’ve been around a kiln that hot, when the door opens it feels like the sun is shining out of it. If you’re near the kiln, the heat is acutely uncomfortable, even though the air temprature is cool.

Will this be a good way to smoke them out of trenches?

I am pretty sure they could mount one of the guns that shoots Ping Pong balls filled with potassium permanganate. And injects some Vegetable Glycerin in the ball when firing.

They could load a gun in the drone with a few thousand rounds of ping pong balls and fly for hours lighting up the treeline. Even return and reload

Looking like dry forest in some places

Interestingly enough, forests cover 800 million hectares of Russia, right at 50% of its land area. Russia has historically relied on its army to fight forest fires, but they’re a little tied up with something at the moment.