• ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I base this on absolutely 0 military experience BUT

    Could be a distraction vessel to draw fire

    Could be to give Russia a chance to use countermeasures and evaluate their effectiveness + come up with next Gen drone to mitigate current countermeasures

    Could be that it is impossible to get a good video from a drone bouncing around in the water and they wanted to make contact with areas that ensure sinking

    Could be a test to see how much punishment the drones can take while maintaining combat effectiveness

    Could be that it’s pure chaos and neither side has a great strategy aside from do/do no explode if possible

    Either way, this footage is wild! Give em hell Ukraine!!

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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      9 months ago

      Apparently there is a 3 second lag too, so I bet it’s better to turn (left, right, left right) than going straight with that kind of lag if you don’t have a clear idea where you want to go.

      Also the drone boats have different objectives, so if there us a filming-boat, it seems logic it’d turn a lot.

      Armchair general Valmond ar your service.

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        9 months ago

        Wow if it’s really that high, then organizing an attack with 10 drones is extremely impressive!

        I’d have hoped that the lag would be lower, because Starlink has a lower orbit than geosync satellites. My hunch would’ve been 100ms one way, for a complete round-trip delay of 0.5s at most.