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Ukraine Figured Out A New Way, Winning Battles: By Grounding Russia’s Drones. It’s not for no reason Russian assault. Is bad to worst.

Avdiivka, a key Ukrainian stronghold in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, seems to be stalling out, indications Ukrainians have deployed their new drone and counter-drone strategy: targeting  radio-jammers, using drones while setting up their own jammers to ground Russian drones.

“The advantage in electronic warfare seems to be holding in this sector,” analyst Donald Hill wrote in fellow analyst Tom Cooper’s newsletter. “The number of Ukrainian drone attacks have increased. A lot. The number of Russian drone attacks have decreased by the same amount.”
That’s encouraging for free Ukraine as the winter deepens and Russia launches its traditional cold-weather attacks in several sectors of the 600-mile front line.

Avdiivka is locus of these winter assaults. After failing to capture the city’s ruins with vehicular attacks and then also failing with infantry attacks that cost them 17,000 casualties, the Russians pivoted to an aerial assault—sending explosive first-person-view drones, some outfitted for night flights, to harry Ukrainian supply lines in the hope of strangling the garrison and forcing it to withdraw. The Ukrainians are grounding the drones before they can attack, and also preventing the Russians from grounding Ukrainian drones, means the Ukrainians’ supply lines might stay open—and the Russians’ supply lines might fray.

“There is no telling how long Ukraine will have this advantage, but it’s currently saving Ukrainian lives,” Hill wrote.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...c341734c55

Dangers Of Off-The-Shelf FPV Technology
Standard radio control can be enhanced with a transmitter that conveniently plugs into its back. Case of this transmitter is crafted using traditional 3D printing techniques. Although multiple methods exist to create such a device, it probably incorporates STM32 microcontroller,
STM32 microcontroller is a standard component in electronic devices made by Switzerland-based company. The one drawback of Magic Radio, the physicist remarks, is that including a remarkably luminous LED proves advantageous for Ukrainian snipers.

Hermes group has set up a pick-and-place Chinese-made machine, Neoden 10, that costs US$30,000. Shared on Telegram channel, this indicates that hundreds of boards are already being made per month. These boards exhibit a high level of simplicity, components utilized are readily accessible, inexpensive & commonly found. Upon inspection, an auto-router with standard configurations was employed to create traces, the firmware being used by Russians is proprietary, yet it uncomplicated. The Russians had made their FPVs more potent by equipping them with heat-detecting night vision to carry out strikes in darkness. This gave them an upper hand against the Ukrainians.

FPV drones commonly used for recreational, videography, and live-streaming events, can also carry payloads & maneuver swiftly. Some models can reach speeds exceeding 100 km/h.

In the Russian-Ukrainian war, FPV drones are utilized as high-speed quadcopters for surveillance, observation, ammunition delivery, and even as kamikazes by attaching combat payloads. In the hands of skilled operators, these drones become exact weapons.


The Ukrainian forces have actively incorporated FPV drones into various divisions since the initial phase of the full-scale invasion. These divisions include the Armed Forces, Security Service of Ukraine, Border Guards, National Guard, and Defense Intelligence operatives.

Regularly, they release footage captured by these drones. For example, the 72nd separate mechanized brigade, known as the Black Zaporozhians, recently utilized these drones to successfully destroy a heavy flamethrower system called Solntsepyok, estimated to be worth US$15 million.
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/russia-fla...nes-fronn/