Translation (Russian voice, presumably frontline soldier):
"This is some kind of Artificial Intelligence. It detects a man and spits a shaped charge directly in his face, melting it right off. 'White' and 'Frenchman' [both presumably callsigns] from the 2nd platoon both told me that many guys were cut down by this weapon, and nobody knows what to do."
(There is no evidence the weapons actually use face-recognition AI other than the Russian comment, but I thought it noteworthy to translate).
Source: GeneReddit123
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what the actual fuck
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The question was when. I though the time will come sooner. This also raises 1000 ethical questions and concerns.
I mean, is it any difference that using a gun? I mean ethics wise.
It seems more likely to me that the drone had the shaped charge and it was set off from getting shot.
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I doubt the effectiveness at that range. Probably was meant to be used on a tank but it couldn’t find one and decided some target was better than no target. These drones often times do not have enough spool or battery to return to the operator. If this drone flew on top of a tank and then detonated, whole different story. But shaped charges don’t like air. Thats what cope cages are for. I am going to sleep now so anyone who disagrees with me will have to astral project into my dream scape to do so.
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Small nitpick. Shaped charge is not molten copper stream. It’s a deformed superplastic copper sheet. It’s akin of a thin copper spear moving at mach fuck while being hot as fuck instead of a stream of molten metal
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Isn’t this a repost?
Perfect. The old version wasn’t nearly deadly enough.
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Ooof. Thats gnarly as fuck
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Not a new concept believe it or not (for armored targets at least). CBU-105 cluster bombs have bomblets that spin during decent and fire a shaped charge when a heat target enters their view.
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This is a repost, and also a shaped charge isn’t a molten copper at all, it’s solid, just gets compressed into a stream by the explosion
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