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I'm curious how they managed to control the drones from such a distance. I'll bet Russia is curious too.

by jqpabc123 1y ago

zzzeek 1y ago
obviously StarLink
- jqpabc123 1y ago
  After a call from Putin, this won't happen again.
  - fredthestair 1y ago
    Right the attack Milo Minderbinder sells in 2 quarters will look just different enough to not exactly be the same thing happening again.
- romperstomper 1y ago
  obviously StarLink doesn't work in the deeps of russian territories
  - zzzeek 1y ago
    Why, no antennas ? The shipping container has the antennas ? Starlink is a joke here but "satellites" in general are not
    - deleted 1y ago
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  - justsomehnguy 1y ago
    Civilian StarLink doesn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
    - romperstomper 1y ago
      Neither Starshield
- watwut 1y ago
  I doubt they trust Musk with operational security anymore. It is pretty much guaranteed he would betray them to Russia.
  - zzzeek 1y ago
    That was my intended joke to say the least Interesting that they claim the attack was shared with the Trump admin ahead of time. That seems very unnecessarily risky as well considering where Trump's loyalties lie
    - rasz 1y ago
      I read Ukraine leaked attack details ahead of time, except it was supposed to be 2000 mile range heavy slow drones striking in the middle of the night. Russians "somehow" got this info and prepared waiting ready until the morning with all bombers fueled up ready to take off. Drones never showed up, morning came, national aviation holiday, pilots went to celebrate, 12:00pm drones take off from trailers.
  - kcb 1y ago
    [flagged]
JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> curious how they managed to control the drones from such a distance The targets weren’t moving. As long as you have a cell connection in the trailer and up-to-date satellite imagery, you could send the coördinates and even flight path to the drones ahead of time and then have them deal with minor obstacles on their own.
- duxup 1y ago
  Presumably even a slow connection the drone could send some imagery, someone confirms it / picks out a plane parked, and the drone does the thing. Camera locking on to a parked plane, should be fairly easy to do the job.
danogentili 1y ago
Apparently they're using a simple 4g/3g/2g modem with Russian SIM, which is the reason why all russian ISPs completely turn off mobile internet (& voice) when drone launches are detected (clearly hasn't helped here as the drones were launched from trucks super close to the targets). These launches specifically seem to have also used on-board AI targeting models trained on photos of the plane models to hit, I assume as a fallback in case mobile connection isn't available inside the bases (and photos on some Telegram channels seem to show usage of the FOSS autopilot system ArduPilot (https://ardupilot.org https://ardupilot.org))
- tim333 1y ago
  Ah yes - this thing looks rather like the footage released https://9meters.com/technology/software/ardupilot-mission-planner https://9meters.com/technology/software/ardupilot-mission-pl...
berndi 1y ago
Someone claimed they used fiber optic drones [1]. So perhaps the drones were connected to the trucks via optical fibers and the trucks carried the modems. That way, jamming over the airbases would have had no effect. [1] https://nitter.net/bayraktar_1love/status/1929155563864146342#m https://nitter.net/bayraktar_1love/status/192915556386414634...

I'm curious how they managed to control the drones from such a distance. I'll bet Russia is curious too.

zzzeek 1y ago

obviously StarLink

jqpabc123 1y ago
After a call from Putin, this won't happen again.
- fredthestair 1y ago
  Right the attack Milo Minderbinder sells in 2 quarters will look just different enough to not exactly be the same thing happening again.
romperstomper 1y ago
obviously StarLink doesn't work in the deeps of russian territories
- zzzeek 1y ago
  Why, no antennas ? The shipping container has the antennas ? Starlink is a joke here but "satellites" in general are not
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
- justsomehnguy 1y ago
  Civilian StarLink doesn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
  - romperstomper 1y ago
    Neither Starshield
watwut 1y ago
I doubt they trust Musk with operational security anymore. It is pretty much guaranteed he would betray them to Russia.
- zzzeek 1y ago
  That was my intended joke to say the least Interesting that they claim the attack was shared with the Trump admin ahead of time. That seems very unnecessarily risky as well considering where Trump's loyalties lie
  - rasz 1y ago
    I read Ukraine leaked attack details ahead of time, except it was supposed to be 2000 mile range heavy slow drones striking in the middle of the night. Russians "somehow" got this info and prepared waiting ready until the morning with all bombers fueled up ready to take off. Drones never showed up, morning came, national aviation holiday, pilots went to celebrate, 12:00pm drones take off from trailers.
- kcb 1y ago
  [flagged]

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> curious how they managed to control the drones from such a distance The targets weren’t moving. As long as you have a cell connection in the trailer and up-to-date satellite imagery, you could send the coördinates and even flight path to the drones ahead of time and then have them deal with minor obstacles on their own.

duxup 1y ago
Presumably even a slow connection the drone could send some imagery, someone confirms it / picks out a plane parked, and the drone does the thing. Camera locking on to a parked plane, should be fairly easy to do the job.

danogentili 1y ago

Apparently they're using a simple 4g/3g/2g modem with Russian SIM, which is the reason why all russian ISPs completely turn off mobile internet (& voice) when drone launches are detected (clearly hasn't helped here as the drones were launched from trucks super close to the targets). These launches specifically seem to have also used on-board AI targeting models trained on photos of the plane models to hit, I assume as a fallback in case mobile connection isn't available inside the bases (and photos on some Telegram channels seem to show usage of the FOSS autopilot system ArduPilot (https://ardupilot.org https://ardupilot.org))

tim333 1y ago
Ah yes - this thing looks rather like the footage released https://9meters.com/technology/software/ardupilot-mission-planner https://9meters.com/technology/software/ardupilot-mission-pl...

berndi 1y ago

Someone claimed they used fiber optic drones [1]. So perhaps the drones were connected to the trucks via optical fibers and the trucks carried the modems. That way, jamming over the airbases would have had no effect. [1] https://nitter.net/bayraktar_1love/status/1929155563864146342#m https://nitter.net/bayraktar_1love/status/192915556386414634...