Category: Military

Drones are changing warfare – four sad and absolutely brutal clips from Ukraine

Absolutely brutal footage of Ukrainian drones dropping munitions on Russian soldiers
Ukrainian 10th Brigade drops grenade on Russians
Another Ukrainian drone drops accurate grenade
Drone attacks Russian troops while they try to evacuate casualty

Cheap, mass-produced drones are already being deployed on a daily basis in the conflict in Ukraine. In the future, we can expect vast improvements in drone technology and munitions. Drone swarms and the tactics and technology to counter them will become common-place on any battlefield.

Not only are they being used to accurately drop explosives, drones can work in spotting roles with other elements such as infantry or artillery.

One of the most startling results of the increased use of drones is the high quality footage they record of their own work – bombs, guns, grenades don’t come with their own cameras to record the after-effects in high definition.

Drones are for the first time recording the sad, lonely and disturbing final moments of soldiers on the battlefield – and these videos are now recorded, edited with music by the soldiers and shared online.

Russians take fire from Ukrainian artillery while crossing pontoon bridge

Russian forces hit by Ukrainian artillery while trying to cross the Dnieper river, Kherson Oblast, 7th September 2022.

Rough translation:

0:00 Crossing Dnepr, big, big river, it’s most narrow fucking part

0:10 It was bombed, bombed today, blyad, hopefully nothing hits it now

0:19 Ah, blyad

0:35 What a fucking jam there? Eh? (as truck stops, probably means traffic jam)

0:42 Oh god, save and protect us on this fucking pontoon bridge

0:47 Look at that hole, hit from rocket (points at something)

1:03 (Someone screams something like “here, here”?) Where here for fuck’s sake?

*Explosion*

1:15 (God have mercy) (where should we run/hide?)

1:17 Blyad

1:23 Fucking 300, blyad

1:50 God have mercy

2:15 Fucking bitch

WWI German soldier describes the brutality of war

“I felt that the culture we boasted so much about is only a very thin lacquer, which chips off the very moment we come in contact with cruel things like war.”

Stephan Kurt Westmann (23 July 1893 – 7 October 1964) was a German soldier and physician.

In the First World War, Westmann served in the German 29th Infantry Division on the Western and Eastern fronts and then as an Air Force surgeon, although unqualified. Completing his medical studies, he became a professor at the University of Berlin, and in the 1930s migrated to England and became a doctor in Harley Street, Westminster. During the Second World War, he was a British medical officer in Scotland, so that in the two World Wars he served on different sides.

In later life, Westmann appeared on BBC television to talk about the First World War from the German point of view and also wrote his memoirs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Westmann