The drones drop one item, then spend some time taking videos before finishing them off. Are drone operators waiting for help to arrive so they can take down even more people? (like the destruction of Dresden on February 14).
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I've seen quite a number of those videos. In one of them, there was some "behind the scenes" footage of a Russian serviceman preparing those little hand grenade-sized bombs. As far as I can tell, it's just a new technique in the age of drone warfare, and why wouldn't it be?
I did notice that the targets don't seem to notice the drone overhead, which seemed odd. With the zooming and unzooming, it's impossible to tell how high these drones are. Just the other day, I noticed on video from another drone (not of this type) that showed it's altitude as 150m. It doesn't seem unreasonable that a small drone would be not easily casually noticed at this altitude, especially on a battlefield where you have other things on your mind.
I took physics, but I'm way too lazy to time the freefall and calculate the actual altitude. d = 1/2 G t^2 for the not lazy.
Whereas for the lazy, you don't even need to learn physics first
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall?c=GBP&v=g:9.80665!mps2!l,v_0:0!ms,h:150!m
For 150m
Time of fall: 5.531s
Velocity: 54.24 m/s 177.95 ft/s 121.33 mph
But if you have the other parameters it can do the other calcs
The lazy part was declining to measure the time of fall in one of the "bomb drop" videos. And you'll note the 150m came from another type of video. But thanks for the link!
There's a few of those calculators around. I didn't have a source to time or I would have looked