Could be to give Russia a chance to use countermeasures and evaluate their effectiveness + come up with next Gen drone to mitigate current countermeasures

Could be that it is impossible to get a good video from a drone bouncing around in the water and they wanted to make contact with areas that ensure sinking

Could be a test to see how much punishment the drones can take while maintaining combat effectiveness

Could be that it's pure chaos and neither side has a great strategy aside from do/do no explode if possible

Either way, this footage is wild! Give em hell Ukraine!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apparently there is a 3 second lag too, so I bet it's better to turn (left, right, left right) than going straight with that kind of lag if you don't have a clear idea where you want to go.

Also the drone boats have different objectives, so if there us a filming-boat, it seems logic it'd turn a lot.

Armchair general Valmond ar your service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow if it's really that high, then organizing an attack with 10 drones is extremely impressive!

I'd have hoped that the lag would be lower, because Starlink has a lower orbit than geosync satellites. My hunch would've been 100ms one way, for a complete round-trip delay of 0.5s at most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'd bet that after starlink was disabled once mid operation, they'd rather eat a donkey's dick than rely on Musk's ass again.