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2025-05-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian Armed Forces announced that Russians are preparing to storm Khar'kov region

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Posted by badanov 2025-05-22 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [126 views ] Top

#1 EurAsia Daily: Russian FPV drones began to fly to Kharkov. This is reported by Ukrainian volunteer Roman Donik. According to him, an FPV drone with an RPG was shot down over Kharkov.

Posted by mossomo 2025-05-22 12:50|| 2025-05-22 12:50|| Front Page Top

#2 From Kharkiv:
480 KM to Kiev
298 Miles

Posted by mossomo 2025-05-22 12:52|| 2025-05-22 12:52|| Front Page Top

#3 They have RPGs now?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-22 15:50|| 2025-05-22 15:50|| Front Page Top

#4 They have RPGs now?

Launching rocket propelled grenades would be a cool innovation, but they might mean just dropping the warhead. Journalists.

Posted by SteveS 2025-05-22 19:19|| 2025-05-22 19:19|| Front Page Top

#5 True.

As I heard a Vietnam vet state:
"A Recoilless Rifle, isn't."

That said, I saw an ad for a FPV RC Race car where a person sits in a race seat with steering performance and a screen. Couple that with a short I saw about testing remote controlled mini-tanks with what looks like a Recoilless Rifle on it.

Would make a wicked combination.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-22 19:55|| 2025-05-22 19:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Picture a killdozer upbuild ATV with a RR.

Me, I'd have a series of cameras on the kill-ATV so operator can use VR Goggles.

Nerding Deeper: seen the game coming out which is an accurate render of WWII aircraft and flight mechanics, made for VR? If that is available commercially, not much difference to do that with, say, an F-16.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-22 20:06|| 2025-05-22 20:06|| Front Page Top

#7 a recoilless RPG on a drone would be hard to achieve, it would seem to my unskilled (but physics aware) eye

Posted by Frank G 2025-05-22 20:06|| 2025-05-22 20:06|| Front Page Top

#8 I think there were planes with recoilless rifles way back when.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-05-22 21:02|| 2025-05-22 21:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, the original Tank Busters.

It would depend on the stability of the areal platform, but I wouldn't dismiss an 'auto-balance'. To continue the story from the Viet Vet, the shot perpendicular to vehicle is only funny because they lived, the jeep laying on it's side.

Even the original 'Doom' game had a cool-down period with the shotgun, and the Abrams (for example) with an auto-stablize aiming system.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-22 21:29|| 2025-05-22 21:29|| Front Page Top

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