Seems like this particular base had zero security forces to watch their planes.
What’s interesting to me is it seems like they were using a ‘chain’ of drones. One goes in and another is watching as BDA, then that one goes on it’s mission, while the next is doing BDA, etc.
That’s pretty brilliant. I wonder how many operators they were using per base.
Yeah! So they use the one drone to destroy something and the next drone is looking to see what damage was done. If the damage is consistent with what they want, that drone then will go onto it’s next target. If the attack wasn’t substantial damage, then the drone can augment that previous mission to achieve that desired result.
That’s honestly fucking awesome. It’s straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, but fucking real.
Seems like this particular base had zero security forces to watch their planes.
What’s interesting to me is it seems like they were using a ‘chain’ of drones. One goes in and another is watching as BDA, then that one goes on it’s mission, while the next is doing BDA, etc.
That’s pretty brilliant. I wonder how many operators they were using per base.
BDA is damage assessment? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_damage_assessment
Yeah! So they use the one drone to destroy something and the next drone is looking to see what damage was done. If the damage is consistent with what they want, that drone then will go onto it’s next target. If the attack wasn’t substantial damage, then the drone can augment that previous mission to achieve that desired result.
That’s honestly fucking awesome. It’s straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, but fucking real.