Commentary-themed posts tend to deal with recent developments. These will typically be much shorter and less detailed than my analysis-themed posts for which commentary-themed posts may serve as “building blocks.”
The following two undated videos offer fairly uncommon documentary evidence of the employment of armed “first-person video” (“FPV”) multirotor drones, seemingly of the fiber-optic cable communication uplink/downlink variety, to navigate inside buildings and attack targets therein.
As I’ve explained in several recent posts, armed “FPV” multirotor drones, especially those of the fiber-optic uplink/downlink variety, should not be viewed as just another type of battlefield armament but miniature strike munitions that enable highly surgical micro-level targeting. Prior to the advent of these uncrewed aircraft turned munitions, which are notably composed of quite inexpensive commercial-off-the-shelf components, militaries had to, in effect, destroy a building so as to kill its occupants and/or destroy the objects placed within. Militaries can now use armed “FPV” multirotor drones of the fiber-optic uplink/downlink variety to attack persons and/or objects located inside buildings—these uncrewed aircraft turned munitions can also be used to breach an opening if required. As things stand, the maximum practical range of armed “FPV” multirotor drones of the fiber-optic uplink/downlink variety is around 30-50 kilometers. The maximum practical range may, however, expand, at least in certain operational contexts, as new approaches to employment are developed, tested, and refined. As with so many other areas of military technology, developments in the Russia-Ukraine War are likely to spread far and wide, not least when it comes to uncrewed aircraft-turned-munitions that are built from readily accessible commercial-off-the-shelf components.
Several relevant posts:
Russian Armed Multirotor Drones Used To Target Electricity Generation Equipment Inside Power Plant Building In Pioneering Attack
Viewing so-called “First Person Video” (“FPV”) drone footage from the Russia-Ukraine War is often a quite sordid affair. There are, however, several “genres” of “FPV” drone footage that are not only more palatable to non-sadistic audiences by virtue of not (directly) depicting the injuring or killing of any human beings but by offering a window into the…
Another Documented Case Of A Fiber-Optic Multirotor Drone Being Used Inside A Building
One of the most consequential possibilities afforded by the advent of armed “first person video” (“FPV”) multirotor drones of the fiber-optic—as opposed to the radio frequency—communication uplink/downlink variety is the ability to operate these uncrewed aircraft-turned-munitions indoors/inside buildings. Documented cases of the employment of armed “FPV…
Video Offers Rare Documentation Of An "FPV" Multirotor Drone Breaching A Structure
Anyone interested in the implications of armed “first-person video” (“FPV”) multirotor drones of the fiber-optic communication uplink/downlink variety must confront the fact that there are many plausible use cases for which there exists little, if any, publicly available documented real-world footage. This notably includes the employment of such armed “…