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There are crates and crates of supplies in there too

Breadisgood4eat

Some terrifying shit. Drone warfare must be the scariest new shit we’ve come up with.

StokedNBroke

This stuff is scary as shit to me.  This is still baby steps drone warfare.

The next major conflict is going to be crazy.  You'll have a C-130 fly overhead and dump 20,000 drones out the back, and they will autonomously kill every vehicle and person in the theater of operations.

Real terminators won't be slow, zombie-walking metal men.  They will be lighting fast and won't miss.

untetheredgrief

The narrator describes the hardware as a “wired guided FPV drove” and that blows my mind. These drones have wire attached for potentially miles? Can anyone explain the purpose of the wire?

Oxygenitic

I was a Bradley driver in the army. Not a tank, but still seeing that drone attack right at the drivers hatch gave me chills. Glad I never saw combat.

Newplasticactionhero

Calculated defined. POV in modern warfare is equivalent to fps gameplay, which understatedly is wild.

thejohnthomasfoster

This is giving me flashbacks to that RC helicopter mission in GTA Vice City.

wbrameld4

superminingbros

As a former tank driver this is nightmare fuel lol. 

But also... would've never had my hatch unbuttoned in a combat zone that's just headass shit.

One-Earth9294

Just like Sentinels from the Matrix

![gif](giphy|MTJvzJEtuDkfihWMuA|downsized)

Internal_Wolf2005

Ok-Frosting-7746

Pfinnalicious

Warfare always evolves..this drone shit is crazy though

Tropic_Summers

This war seems so surreal to me. Like it's eternal killing for YouTube views.

LeoLaDawg

rainorshinedogs

I shot a lizard with a BB gun once and I felt fucking terrible

sideways_cat

War is terrible, horrible. I hope it ends as soon as possible.

ch3rl0

AshyWhiteGuy

I’ve got a Matrice 4T. Out of the box the GPU on board can recognise people, cars &amp; boats. 1,000 targets per frame. 

Via their AI developer programme you can build a model to recognise anything (and bind this model to the drone). So you can recognise a kangaroo. Or a particular humans face. Or skin colour. At day or night. 

There are some guard rails for the moment but the capability to deploy a drone to attack a particular target in a certain vicinity without any RF connection or human controller interaction is already here. 

Targeted autonomous killing machines are already here my friends. 

And this is just the beginning

SavingsDimensions74

I know that voice [https://www.youtube.com/@PrestonStewart](https://www.youtube.com/@PrestonStewart)

sheogor

Warfare has officially become a video game.

Codyfuckingmabe

Umustbekidney

When he first approaches the tank, you can clearly see the upper body armor is just some 7/8 millimeters steel plates. All bent and rusty.

I just wonder the conditions those soldiers are just 'left' there. Pretty sure they also dont want to be there

Poor dudes

jofe077

What a surreal world, where we have footage from war narrated like it's football commentary.

caffpanda

AvailableAd7874

Wire-guided? What the hell? That sounds wild.

Screwbles

I’m retired Marine Corps and a combat vet with three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Indirect  fire and IEDs were the threat and were unnerving for sure but the thought of drone warfare is just scary to me.

Brahma__

STALKER X0-10's sacrifice will be remembered.

Press X to pay respect.

OmniGamer321

Marsupial_Impressive

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&gt; # [Russia launches hundreds of drones and cruise missiles into Ukraine, killing at least 6](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2025/07/12/de4e0676-a8c1-4c37-b364-c34009f5a575/thumbnail/1200x630/f4b84dab8e2424cd171b49a210514b5e/ap25193370785170.jpg)
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&gt; Updated on: July 12, 2025 / 12:44 PM EDT
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&gt; Russia launches attack on Kyiv
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&gt; [Russia launches massive missile, drone strikes on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv
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&gt; Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles overnight into Saturday as part of a stepped-up bombing campaign that killed at least six people and wounded dozens, officials said.
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&gt; Two people died and 26 were wounded when Russian forces overnight attacked the Bukovina area in the Chernivtsi region of southwestern Ukraine with four drones and a missile, regional Gov. Ruslan Zaparaniuk said Saturday. He said that the two died from falling drone debris.
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&gt; Another drone attack in Ukraine's western Lviv region wounded 12 people, regional Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi said. Poland's air force scrambled fighter jets in areas bordering Ukraine in response to the overnight attacks, which targeted again a region that is a crucial hub for receiving foreign military aid.
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&gt; Three people were also wounded in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine when the city was hit by eight drones and two missiles, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
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&gt; Russia fired 597 drones and decoys, along with 26 cruise missiles, into Ukraine overnight into Saturday, Ukraine's air force said. Of these, 319 drones and 25 cruise missiles were shot down and 258 decoy drones were lost, likely having been electronically jammed.
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&gt; Two people were killed Saturday morning in a missile strike in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to regional Gov. Serhii Lysak. Two other people were killed Saturday in the Sumy region by a Russian guided bomb, local officials said.
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&gt; Firefighters work at the site of Russian air attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, July 12, 2025.
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&gt; Russia's intensifying long-range attacks have coincided with a concerted effort to break through parts of the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, where Ukrainian troops are under severe pressure.
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&gt; Russia's Defense Ministry said it shot down 33 Ukrainian drones overnight into Saturday.
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&gt; One person was wounded Saturday in a Ukrainian drone strike on Russia's Belgorod region and another in the Kursk region, both of which border Ukraine, local officials said.
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&gt; Earlier this week, [Russia launched its largest drone attack on Ukraine in a single day](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-war-putin-trump-criticism-drone-attack-deaths/) since the war began more than [three years](https://www.cbsnews.com/ukraine-crisis/) ago, the Ukrainian Air Force said. In a statement, the air force said Russia fired 728 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as 13 missiles.
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I know this is a tragedy and all but I'm always surprised by the low casualty rate during this kind of operation. During WW2 or whatever the civilians were always the most affected part and killed by the thousands.

Can somebody explain?

naktakalah

Oh so you're shilling for Russia out of the goodness of your own heart then? It would actually be less embarrassing if you had just polarised yourself against the west.

Your parent comment is utterly undiluted bullshit, and if you cannot condemn open and proud revanchism, but instead look for ways to blame Ukraine for being invaded, then yes - people will call you a shilling because there is no nuance there, it's just cover for military aggression.

How can you possibly gloss over "no big army" as a precondition for any Russian demand, as though Ukraine disarming itself wouldn't lead to easier occupation.

Ukraine rejected proposals such as this because they saw what occupation looked like - murder, population replacement, and war crimes. If they wanted to agree to Russia's demands and experience this, they could.

How, specifically, would a referendum in the Donbas work given the millions displaced and the tens of thousands killed by Russia, whilst Russia occupies the region, do you think?

Narrow_Program80

&gt;Russia fired 597 drones and decoys, along with 26 cruise missiles, into Ukraine overnight into Saturday

I don't know how Trump thinks he's going to have any impact at all on this with his plan to launder money through NATO.  The **total** NATO budget was like $22.5b in 2023, which is a drop in the bucket for this war.  

And if they drastically increase the budget that means the US pays 16% of the new higher figure, it isn't as if we're just selling weapons to Europe and letting them pay for the war.  Although it seems like that's what Trump wants everyone to think so he doesn't have to admit he's just doing what he bashed Biden for doing - uselessly dumping cash in Ukraine to prolong the war.

imunfair

It needs to be pointed out that each drone only has a payload of ~90kg (198lbs) 

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2025/05/21/russian-shahed-136-drones-now-carry-198lb-warheads-ukraine/

While this is pretty big for a suicide drone, Israel loitering munition drones only carry 16-32kg payloads, it is still much less than a cruise missile or even a regular bomb. 

Even when Russia launches 400 upgraded Geran-2 drones, it is only 36,000 kg of explosive. 

Collectively, the drones deliver just 36 tons of explosive onto targets. 

To put into perspective, during the Gulf War air campaign, the average tonnage dropped was 2,100 **tons**, which is roughly ~85% of the daily tonnage dropped on Germany &amp; Japan in WW2. 

So these drone strikes deliver only 1% of the tonnage in the Gulf War. 

However, given how cheap these drones are to make and how easy they are to make, I think we will see steadily increasing levels of drone strikes. 

Every night we will see a few hundred drones launched. This number will slowly increase as Russia increases its production and makes their existing production more efficient. 

In six months, we may see 1,000 Geran drones launched every night.

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Russia tried to end the conflict multiple times and in multiple different ways up until now; ways that didn't have to involve the complete destruction of infrastructure and manufacturing. This isn't a conflict with the regular people of Ukraine's, who would end up suffering from this the most - but with the ruling class, elites and uhh.. "radicals", which happily dance to someone else's tune.

Russia doesn't need a completely destroyed failed state of a country on its border. That's chaos, disorder, criminality and humanitarian disaster that Russia would have had to deal with. Once the conflict was over Ukraine needed to have the capacity to carry on and rebuild by itself, and maintain a functional economy and trade with its neighbors. 

Towards that end up until now the majority of Ukraine's manufacturing and logistics have been receiving disabling hits, that took them out of commission for a while but still with the possibility of being a restored a relatively quickly, cheaply and easily. Just so they don't contribute to the ongoing, active or effort.

This does not seem to be any of Russia's concerns anymore. Key industrial capacities are being targeted and thoroughly destroyed with multiple, repeat hits: manufacturing shops, repair plants, cement factories, etc. They're not going to becoming back online anytime soon, and often it is easier to demolish whatever remains and rebuild from scratch rather than trying to fix it.

The west made it into a long game, and Russia is beginning to react to it as such. Today's attack was a record 700-something flying ordinance strong, compared to the previous record of 500-something - and that number is looking up to be over 1k in a few months time due to the ramping up of the production. There is no way a rational thinking person can simultaneously see 700+ explodey things raining down while causing only 6 casualties and call it a deliberate attack on civilians. 

Meanwhile USA agreed to send Ukraine 10 Patriot interceptors. Not batteries, but individual missiles. Count them.

VintageGriffin

Unbelievable /s Russia literally used Belarusian territory to invade Ukraine in 2022.

Honest-Estimate4964

No surprise.  Lukashenko owe his political life to Putin and Belarus is independent country in name only.

macross1984

Real question; Why isn't Ukraine attacking bases in Belarus? If Belarus is letting Russia operate on its soil, that makes it a legal target for military action, no? What's stopping Russia from just slowly amassing a large force of men in Belarus and then overwhelming Ukrainian lines in a single go?

SeeminglyUseless

Russia and Belarus are one in the same at this point

grayfox0430

brnccnt7

I'll take "Things That Were Predictable" for $2000, Alex...

PansophicNostradamus

Appropriate_Fill_956

I hope the 30k proposed "Peace Keeping Force" is put all along the Belarus border with appropriate air defense. It would release Ukrainian troops to shore up their other fronts &amp; give them more protection.

Of course, I'd prefer they got proper involved but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen any time soon.

BigBananaBerries

Why not have Ukraine attack Russia from Finland? Just to even it out

LurkerOfFineWares

I believe that makes Belarus a legitimate military target, right?

edfitz83

Aren't russia storing a lot of equipment in belarus as well?

Hadleys158

Nevermind they are partners and they are allowed to share airspace...

DarthDork73

txxner_the_nimble

Putin showing his contempt for Trump. Trump has completely bungled this and been played like cheap kazoo.

UnclePatrickHNL

&gt; Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated.

&gt; For the second night in a row, explosions and air raid alarms rocked Ukraine's capital and cities far from the front lines, as Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack across the country on July 10.

&gt; At around 1:15 a.m. local time, Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground began reporting explosions in the capital and the buzzing of Shahed-type drones. Reporters said large numbers of drones were flying over the Pechersk neighborhood, a historic district in the city center.

&gt; Later in the night, reporters said they heard several dozen explosions and the distinctive sound of ballistic missiles. At least an hour of near-constant explosions rolled through the city.

&gt; Blast waves also set off car alarms throughout Kyiv, adding to the roar of drones, ballistics, and air defense fire.

&gt; Ukraine's Air Force issued multiple alerts overnight, warning that groups of Russian drones were targeting regions throughout the country, including the far-western Ternopil and Rivne oblasts.

&gt; The attack caused fires at apartment buildings in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi and Darnytskyi districts, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. Gas stations and garages are also in flames, he said, and medics have been dispatched to the scene.

&gt; At least two people have been injured, with one hospitalized, Klitschko said.

&gt; Attacks are ongoing and information about the consequences of the strike are still being investigated.

SafeBodybuilder7191

Franklin_le_Tanklin

Hmm, right after air defense missiles were withheld by the Pentagon? What an odd coincidence.

ChanceryTheRapper

It's fkn hell here since around 6pm. First a shitload of drones to exhaust the air defense, now missiles. I have a feeling this will be yet another "record attack"

yuri_dr

Sanction them. Destroy their economy. Make them feel the pain Ukraine are going through.

Joingojon2

Put on the $45 oil price cap - $60 is far too low and still more profitable than Moscow selling via the Urals. Europe needs to push this, not let it fade into obscurity based on the US administration's mood. 

Crack down on the shadow fleet going through the Danish Strait. 

Throw some weight around and stop Hungary from importing Russian oil, it's absurd to have a NATO member working against NATO's security. 

Moscow won't stop until Putin changes the subject, so tripling down on raising the economic cost is far more threatening than any single weapon system. Obviously those weapons still (hugely) matter - attrition is an economic burden, too. But it _should_ be easier and faster to pass laws than to supply an army.

zatch659

I do not think tomorrow will be different.

bigmatch

Well, I was wondering why my friend in Ukraine was texting me so early in the morning (his time).

I just don't get Putin's rationale for these daily strikes. What is he hoping to achieve? I'm not in Ukraine right now but I frequently am, and all I can see is that these constant air raids only harden the resolve of the Ukrainian people. Is he hoping that the Ukrainians are just going to get so scared that they fold? I don't see that happening any time in the future.

Confident_While_5979

This is no surprise, and precisely shows just how weak trump is. He is not given knowledge of military aid being withheld. His threats have mainly been, "I will consider sanctioning you, I didn't say I will, just that I am considering it". Oh and let's not forget the, "Ukraine requested patriot missiles, they want it" and that is about it. 

The reason why the talk of bombing moscow, beijing, etc. is stupid because no one believes him. Because trump has shown nothing but weakness, and putin knows it.

KazeNilrem

This will only continue as Putin is placated and shown no resistance  from the US and Europe. We NEED immediate and unconditional support at a massive scale to make Russia stop. Ukraine carries the weight of the west on its shoulders.

DirtyMike101

Why moscow still not burning? Oil refineries? Sink all shadow fleet vessels, etc etc.. where is the response?

bandita07

We can spend trillions on a shit war in the middle east, that nobody supported, but a REAL threat by a genocidal regime and it's all hand wringing and 'oh no, the budget! How could we ever afford to support the ukranians?!'. At the same time giving our support to Israel so they can do the same shit Russia is doing in Ukraine. 

The USA is a fucking joke and morally bankrupt. Ukraine should have been swamped with more military equipment than they know what to do with, on day one of this war.

VacuumShark

Meanwhile, American congress is writing a letter to us here in Canada because the smoke from our rampant wildfires is "ruining their summer".


Slava Ukraini!!

[deleted]

Remember when Trump said he'd have them at peace in 1 day?

megaplex66

This is Putin sending a big F-U to Trump, after Trump has revealed to the world that he's as weak and incompetent leader.

So much for ending the war on Day 1. Just more MAGA lies.

LizardWizards_

&gt; Two people were killed in the Russian attack, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, reported.

&gt; "Unfortunately, we have two dead. These people were killed by the Russians. This is a terrible loss. My condolences to the family and friends," he said.

&gt; At least 13 people have been injured, with nine hospitalized, local authorities reported, adding that some of the injured sustained shrapnel wounds.

And yet, no one has the balls to put Putin on his place...

Nostradamus_of_past

the Resilience Award goes to Ukrainians as Russia continually shows the world they can attack the hell out them daily without heavier consequences, particularly from the US… Putin may have dirty stuff on Trump in his top drawer but this evil sh*tshow makes everyone else look helpless and useless just the same.

memenmemen

Correct use of the word slammed for once.

minarima

Hate seeing Putler constantly attack civ areas but the good thing is people are resilient af and any structure can be rebuilt so hes just shitting on the place he thinks he will make his 💩

BoDaBasilisk

maxgrody

This is terrible and all, but from an outsider that knows nothing about warfare, it’s kind of wild that such a widespread bombing campaign claims so few victims.

HowManyEggs2Many

Wait for return fire... When Moscow burns..

Winter_Criticism_236

Widespreaddd

Triad64

It's simple - Trump is working with Putin while acting as the bad guy.

Total-Basis-4664

I don’t know if there’s an actual answer to this, but if they are sending these hundreds of drones per day, how many could they possibly have in reserves? Is there a potential for thousands upon thousands at the ready, or is this some kind of finale of sorts?

Unlikely_Ant_950

&gt; Two people were killed in the Russian attack, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, reported. Both fatalities were women – a 68-year-old resident and a 22-year-old police officer, the Interior Ministry said.

&gt; At least 16 people have been injured, with 10 hospitalized, local authorities reported, adding that some of the injured sustained shrapnel wounds.

&gt; In the Podilskyi district, a primary healthcare center "was almost completely destroyed" in the Russian attack, Klitchsko later reported.

&gt; The attack damaged the studio of the Kanal 5 television channel, owned by former President Petro Poroshenko. While no employees were injured, filming equipment sustained damage, causing a temporary disruption to broadcasting.

&gt; It remains unclear whether Russia targeted or hit any military or other strategic targets in the attack, as Ukrainian authorities largely do not disclose such information for security reasons. This makes the full extent of casualties and damage impossible to verify.

&gt; Russian forces launched 397 drones against Ukraine overnight, with almost 200 of them being Shahed-type kamikaze drones and the rest decoys used to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses, according to the Air Force.

&gt; Russia also fired eight Iskander-M ballistic missiles, six Kh-101 cruise missiles, and four S-300 guided air defense missiles, targeting primarily Kyiv, the statement read.

&gt; Ukrainian air defenses shot down 164 Shahed-type drones, eight Iskander-M missiles, and six Kh-101 missiles. Some 204 drones and missiles reportedly disappeared from radars or were intercepted by electronic warfare.

&gt; "This is a clear escalation of terror by Russia — hundreds of 'Shaheds' every night, constant strikes, and massive attacks on Ukrainian cities," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on X.

&gt; "Today, I will be speaking with partners — in particular within the Coalition of the Willing — about additional funding for the production of interceptor drones and the supply of air defense systems for Ukraine."

&gt; Meanwhile, in Kherson, two people were injured by drone strikes during the countrywide mass assault overnight on July 10.

&gt; "A 63-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man were hit. They suffered blast injuries and multiple shrapnel wounds. The victims were hospitalized in moderate condition," the Kherson City Military Administration said in a Telegram post.

I wonder where all these smart guys are who told me countless times since the beginning of this war that Russia has a maximum of 6 months left for any meaningful attacks because then their weapon stockpiles are more or less depleated ....

Select_Ingenuity_146

Russia had "massed" a bunch of equipment and heavy armor (which is exceedingly rate for Russia now) to try a summer offensive that isn't just motorbikes and meatwaves. It has been absolutely obliterated by Ukrainian artillery and drones so Russia is pissed. Putin was hoping to grab some more land before he has no choice but to find an end to this war.

Blackintosh

Is the Pentagon supplying Moscow with drones?

manniesalado

All we can do is hope Trumps steps back up to Putin with another real response.

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