>>65085380Why do Shaheds fly during day?During night such intercepts would be massively more difficult.
>>65085380Thats some shooting, someone needs to crowdfund them a 240
>>65085385They are flying both day and night to exhaust AA
How does Ukie AA know the Yak isn't a shahed?
>shooting down Russians with yellow nose markings on their planeSehr gut.
>>65085390They are not Russians and have read the chapter about deconflicting in the AA manual.
God this looks like so much fun
>>65085388>to exhaust AAExcept interceptor drones are doing the majority of the work when it comes to shasneeds these days.
>>65085385Because it causes more work disruptions when the air raid siren goes off at 2 PM.
>>65085380Ukraine really was an attempt to remake WW1 with modern tech. All we need now is a railway gun.
>>65085516russia uses them unless they all got droned by now, they still have armored trains
>>65085529>they still have armored trainswhat happened to those anyway
>>65085380kino
>>65085380unironically how hard would it be for them to retrofit these two seater trainer aircraft with a ball turret?seems way more capable than just having the gunner carry around an ar
>>65085386I'm not actually sure that would be an improvementthe extra dakka is nice, but the gun would be heavier and harder to move around and aim from inside the plane
>>65085380how much does the wind affect their shots? it doesn't look like they're leading much.
>>65085675It is kind of amusing that the Defiant would legit be one of the best ideas for taking on drones built using modern materials and given modern instruments.
>>65085675I would wager they are purposefully keeping them light as all hell so the teams can have long as fuck fly times. Adding a ball and MG is going to add the weight of another man to the plane
>>65085682Just a bit longer range compared to an AR so you don't get as close to the things explodingMind you, still massively impressed hitting a drone while moving yourself, its not easy to do the leading on something like that with variable speeds between two moving vehicles. They sadly, probably don't lack for practice
>>65085380Replace AR with
>>65086130Since top speed's not nearly as much of an issue for a good prop plane against these, I'm sure you could also fit external fuel tanks to them.
>>65085675>>65086316It wouldn't be THAT hard but it wouldn't be free and instantaneous either, and that's clearly the main virtue here. Yaks, ARs, and a couple of dudes up for going terror drone hunting are something they already had and have everything needed to operate too. But it's also not some sort of long term path I think, even though it's super cool. Long term path is ASF drones that can be mass produced and automatically patrol all the skies, reinforce based on ground and air detection and intercept anything without the right IFF, minimal human involvement required. Based on all the other drone stuff going on seems damn near certain they've got projects going for that, so probably not a lot of incentive to sink anything into improving bandaids unless they thought it'd be another decade.
>>65086332I could at the very least see them add fuel tanks for extended range and flight time.
>>65085566Have you see what happens to a tank that gets anywhere near the frontline? How do you think a train would do when it can literally only follow a single path of advancement/retreat?
>>65085380Why can’t they nig rig up a flex mounted MG?
>>65086308I don't think that would work because I don't think the shaheds are operated by signals like the smaller DJI-style drones you see on the front lines. the target coordinates are already embedded in the shahed iirc. I could be mistaken so someone correct me.
>>65085380That guy has the world's coolest job and I am BEYOND jealous
>>65085380That's the coolest shooting ive seen in a while, I hope they are getting recognized for it.
based ukies defending freedom and democracy (with common sense restrictions to combat antisemitism) from russian nazis
>>65086538Are you even making an argument here?With Putin's blessing, Russia has had similar laws for years.
>>65086538antisemitism is illegal in r*ssia
>>65085380honestly seems like a dream aviation job for a civilian
>>65086481that's a grenade launcher, anon
>>65086335>I could at the very least see them add fuel tanks for extended range and flight time.I guess, and maybe some of them do. But dunno if that's actually a limiting factor? IIRC a Yak-52 can go like, 2-3 hours or so at cruising speed (which is slow) so that'd be a range of like, ~300-350-ish miles. Their stall speed is just 55 mph, you can take them off from damn near fucking anywhere. So I assume they operate them in cells that each cover a zone of like 100 miles or so, little airfields that may just be converted road or actual fields with some support stuff, maybe some simple buildings or netting or whatever to give them some small drone coverage. Obviously this will be well back from the front line, they're trying to stop stuff going deep aiming to hit more maternity hospitals, apartments and pedestrian sidewalks with secret hato boris cloning labs beneath them. So they might well just not need more then they've got. They get the word shaheds are heading into their cell defense zone, they head out and get everything they can, they head back.
>>65086545>>65086551fuck off ivan, russia is helping iran which is a jew-hating dictatorship
>>65085516However, there have been occasional uses in the late 20th century and early 21st century. Russia has used improvised armoured trains during the Second Chechen War (1999–2009) and in its invasion of Ukraine (2022–present).[1][2][3]
>>65086545>>65086551On paper only you mongrel.
>>65086538>>65086545>>65086551Either you're a faggot russian shill trying the standard divide and conquer or a faggot israeli shill trying to make everything about you. Neither changes my general recommendation to suckstart a shotgun. Hate crimes against any ethnic or religious group in most democracies are crimes by definition, nothing there has changed. That's the way it should be. In most ME countries being jewish is itself a crime, while in the US you can lose your job and have your hurricane aid money denied for refusing to support Israel. there's just fucking no middle ground or nuance to this anymore. Either you rightfully condemn Israel and their psychopathic government and you're expected to ALSO hate an entire ethnic group for the crime of being born or you're a beta cuck, OR you condemn antisemitism and you're expected to support a genocide and a parasite apartheid state. Anyway shooting down multiple drones out of a moving airplane with a semiauto AR is one of the most impressive feats of marksmanship thus far recorded in this war. That everyone should agree on.
What ammo are they using? Can standard ball or greentip have those effects or are they using tracers to cook off the explosives / fuel tank
>>65087967>muh both sides
>>65086130streamlining and extra range/accuracy of a few sheets of plex-glass and an AR-10, maybe shooting 7mm Rem mag, or just 7.62 incendiary tracer, to make the big fuel tank able to "indicate" its been hit with just one bullet, so hunter can move on to next target, on a mount, maybe with gyro-stablizer, would more than make up for it.IMO a fairly narrow 60deg "cone" of movement would be OK, since the drones are on fixed straight course.Probably easy to Bubba a scope with a few extra lines to show exactly how much to lead given drone's size in the scope, to engineer all the skill out of the operation.They say over 30mph its better to run the AC with windows up to save fuel.
>>65086545>laws>in Russia>with Putin's blessing
>>65086866It's like Catholic France siding with the Protestants in the 30YW.
>>65088085What is that? An image for ants?
>>65085390>How does Ukie AA know the Yak isn't a shahed?They're part of the ukie air defence network and it's all ground controlled intercept, so they're in an air defence zone that they're supposed to be and the controllers coordinating the ground teams put them there deliberately and know which ground teams could possibly conflict.
>>65088221Oh you :3
