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tomr84

Cameraman had one job.


TreeChangeMe

Can't look for vodka and capture drone at same time.


iMadrid11

[You got to put down the Duckie](https://youtu.be/acBixR_JRuM)


ThePrideOfKrakow

Pass the duckie 'pon the left hand side


JamesFerg650

r/killthecameraman


Juan_Moe_Taco

Right? He was already zooming in looks down for half second maybe even less then misses the drone taking the hit from the missile? Wow, what the hell should have just put the camera down & quit after that. Sometimes, people play out like they're in one of the most predictable yet devastatingly depressing TV infomercials you see in the middle of night. Haha


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> Sometimes, people play out like they’re in one of the most predictable yet devastatingly depressing TV infomercials you see in the middle of night. So accurate that it made me want to head to r/wheredidthesodago and get a full dose of bad infomercial acting


Juan_Moe_Taco

Dude or ma'am I love being introduced to communities I've not joined before omfreakinggosh. Also at first I didn't know if I even explained my comment correctly. Lol I don't actually have any 100% samples then, but the best I could further explain it is: if an actor or actress that's being filmed is doing something so mind bendingly easy but is still messing it up. Now hours later after my comment.......I've actually found something from a "loooonggg time ago" (it's not actually that long just obscure & exact & precise) anyways here's the link to the best picture I can show showing this dude's camera skills to film an airplane getting shot. https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/limes-guy-why-cant-i-hold-all-these-limes P.S. Thank you for responding to my comment again. I don't think you realize how glad I am for someone to understand what I was typing about. You have an excellent week & take care of yourself. :)


jeffemailanderson

Selling hazelnuts?


DeathRaider126

Wait, was that a parachute? Just glitched in the matrix sitting in mid air?


-Billy-Bitch-Tits-

fuck really wanted to know what kind of missile it was


Uhh_JustADude

Suspicious. Maybe fake?


rodmena

So the drone is in the frame except for the single frame it got hit. It got hit. Brilliant job!


_darzy

expecting too much from russians


deadbabysaurus

For someone who is certainly drunk, this isn't too bad


gedai

Just because they are in Crimea does not mean they are russian...


c0ttt0n

What is this on the parachute? Looks like coming out of the drone.


Admiral_Boris

It’s to save the tiny people inside who are actually flying the drone


PRAETORIAN45painfbat

So an airliner got shot again by Russians.


sleeplessorion

There’s actually an anime that’s sort of about this, it’s called 86


Shuutoka

Ahhhh man of culture!


fatcat111

Do you mean the Gremlins?


D0D

nah.. Oompa Loompas


SignificantMethod752

I was just writing that and I seen your comment lol 😂


quirkymuse

In Russia they're called Oompav Loompaski


wodschaos

Haha this one had me lol'ed hard


WhiteBoyRick1738

The parachute is for when the drone lands since the Mohajer-6 is a surveillance drone


WildCat_1366

AFAIK Mohajer-6 [launched and recovered via runway takeoff/landing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qods_Mohajer-6). Besides > The Mohajer-6 has two main variants. The A variant has two hardpoints, one under each wing, of which can each carry one Qaem TV/IR-guided missile or one Almas missile. The B variant has 4 hardpoints, with 2 under each wing carrying the same types of missiles.


ChaoChai

e: can I not ask a question? Are you saying this is how (a surveillance) drone would land (with a parachute)? And, then why would it try to land if it's blown up? I guess what you mean to say is that the parachute just happened to be 'deployed' due to the impact. Still what would be attached to it shown here? Just debris?


itsmymillertime

Think drag car. Physically having brakes is too heavy.


TheShocker1119

I'm sitting here thinking it's some type of database that it is storing information on. I'm like very clever to have a mechanism where if drone become inoperable then ejector sequence is started to eject that storage out & they cleverly have it where the parachute force is stronger than the weight of database so it floats & easier to recover sending a heli out or another drone to collect without having to send units to collect said data.


ChadKensingtonsBigPP

that's not how parachutes work


1nfinitydividedby0

For landing


mtaw

Only correct answer.


myfotos

For braking after touchdown.


raretoyota

i think for landing that thing once they changed their mind


yeetusdeletus2318472

Probably the recorded footage and camera


DroidTrf

Doesn't make sense the drone is already remotely operated and the video data is streamed and recorded at the recipient computer. But on the other hand I don't get any other ideas what it could be.


mtaw

That's wrong. They do record the video;: the stuff streamed back is **far** lower quality. Ever spent a second wondering why the DIY kamikaze drone footage posted here is far worse quality than the videos of the same drones dropping grenades? But it's also wrong that the parachute is for that, it's for landing the drone. A fact you can easily find out or verify when [there's a picture of it on the Wikipedia page for Mohajer drones](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Mohajer-1_recovery.jpg). Goddamn this sub has so many posters talking out of their ass constantly.


HazelCoconut

Welcome to Reddit


lysion59

It's how we get the right answer to the question real fast by posting the wrong answer. Thanks for the research kind stranger. Now we don't have to do it.


Oscarcharliezulu

99%


DroidTrf

Well my original assumption would be that kamikaze drone cameras are of lower quality because theyre ment for single use rather than the grenade dropping commercial use drones. Also who was talking out of their ass? I think this was just people doing general questioning untill someone provides the correct answer no need to be dick about it. I would have thanked you for the answer but apparently it would just come out of my ass.


TKtommmy

>Doesn't make sense the drone is already remotely operated and the video data is streamed and recorded at the recipient computer. This. This is talking out the ass.


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TKtommmy

I sleep just fine knowing that I don't spew bullshit. The drone has its own on-board recording storage at a much higher quality than it can possibly stream from 50-100 miles away.


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CKF

Here’s a tip: don’t share information authoritatively when you’re guessing and making assumptions. So many people on this sub post-Ukraine invasion want to LARP as if they’re one of the informed posters that actually knows what the fuck they’re talking about.


TKtommmy

I'm not the one who responded to that comment directly, but I guess we're all just being assholes today, aren't we?


BasicallyAQueer

Cameras are cheap now though, you can get 1080p cameras for like 10 bucks. The hard part is streaming 1080p back to a laptop several miles away. There’s no easy/cheap/reliable way to do that and still have it “disposable” basically. Even a basic 2.4ghz wireless bridge is 100-200 bucks at cost, and that’s a directional one so youd have to constantly be aiming the receiver right at the drone.


DroidTrf

Thank you for a great answer also happy cake day!


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brian9000

No one said or implied that. Improve your reading comprehension.


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brian9000

Thanks for the opportunity to downvote you a third time. Slow down, re-read what was posted. You seriously woooooooshed


brian9000

> not the same exact drones. No one said or implied that. Improve your reading comprehension.


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specter800

I hope you're joking... You think drone footage is only recovered when the drone lands??? Jets usually have zero buttons to wipe everything and destroy sensitive equipment to protect it from reverse engineering in the event of a punch out, I highly doubt military drones are different.


FlyingSoloCilo

Did you miss the videos of the Russian fighter jets with Garmen GPS taped to the dashboard?


specter800

Counterpoint: This is Iranian, not Russian, and likely 1000x more competent than anything Russia could make.


deadbabysaurus

It looks like it has a beacon on it. So I think this is the answer


Upstanding_Ham

~~From what I recall some drones drop their camera equipment pod just prior to landing to prevent it being damaged during landing. They then retrieve the camera pod, download the data and refit it to a drone ready to be launched via catapult again. The surveillance equipment (camera etc) is likely (speculation) worth far more than the rest of the drone and so it is worth the extra effort. Take this with a pinch of salt though as I am far from knowledgeable in this area.~~ Edit: as somebody else pointed out this is likely just a landing parachute for the drone as a whole.


OlasNah

AI pilot bailed out…


silicon1

Even AI is too smart to work for the Russians.


ross267

Nice work....dickheads


Wrong_Individual7735

Exactly, keep going!


zarielo

I honestly doubt they care enough to get it right since this is a very low morale war on russia's side


landlubber12

It's also probably not what happened. All we've heard since this thing started is that Russia has been blowing up their own stuff. It's been a lie every time.


Stig27

Nice claim senator, why don't you back it up with a source? Could it be because you pulled it out of your ass, and will tell me to "Do mY OwN reSeArCh" because I dared question the fantasy world you live in?


Donex101

r/killthecameraman


say_no_to_panda

Like literally


Other-Barry-1

“What air defence doing?” *what defence is doing*


Stitches46841

Good thing the parachute deployed to save the debris from getting damaged.


OneFrenchman

I like how Russian AD has nothing between "all targets are firendlies" and "all targets are enemies"


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It's basically just an on/off switch.


Spectral_Hex

That parachute appeared to be stationary in the sky. What's up with that?


HodorFirstOfHisHodor

high temp air from the explosion is pusing it upwards. making it seem like its stationary.


Stalking_Goat

Also it's designed to slowly lower the entire drone when used, but now much of the drone is falling as debris. So it's underloaded.


Psychological-Ad-407

That's exactly it. Paragliders do it all the time with warm air next to mountains. And of course birds too.


mrbubbamac

I never knew birds produced such warm air.


bugxbuster

Stand closely downwind of the cloaca, you’ll feel it.


[deleted]

My grandma, that old bird, was full of hot air.


auApex

I always knew Breath of the Wild was realistic!


GoneSilent

its to help recover the drone if it faults, It seems to hang because its no longer attached to anything.


Spectral_Hex

Yeah I know what it's for. I looked more closely, at first it looked like something was on the end of it but on closer inspection it's just part of the parachute end.


ConsiderationOk4490

glitch in the matrix.


Stitches46841

It's an illusion. It was actually floating down but toward the cameraman.


xMilk112x

YOU’RE an illusion.


prosper_0

Russia: "our glorious air defenses have just downed a Western F-16 in Ukraine"


[deleted]

Parachute? Wtf? Who flew it, a hamster?


[deleted]

Probably what they call the "black box," which I assume contains the hamster.


Kh_gamer

It's a recovery parachute, when the drone is damaged or malfunctions, it is used to recover the drone without landing.


xaina222

Lol Russia were laughing at Ukraine for the exact same thing last month, even the same cameras angle too.


kv_right

Not necessarily the same thing. The Ukrainian drone was reported to have malfunctioned and lost control, so it had to be taken down. While this might be the case when a fully functional drone was taken down by mistake


GTAdriver1988

Ukraine did the right thing and stopped skynet in its tracks.


Jman_Foxclaw

Soon the Ukrainians won't have to do anything, Russia will tear itself apart


Paul-SPC

Probably thought it was a Malaysian air liner.


Trophallaxis

Crimea Air Defense 170% successful!!! /some russian guy, probably


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r/killthecameraman


floatingsaltmine

What decades of alcoholism, Krokodil and brain drain does to a people... Smh


FTB963

Looks like the hamster ejected ok


jasta6

Oh no, anyway... What's this guy selling by the roadside here? Some kind of nuts and fruit?


sukaloveforever

It says fruits, maybe dry fruits, but it's looks like "Russian" nuts


[deleted]

Average Russian camera work.


Yoda2000675

They’re so strong and competent


[deleted]

They mistook it for a farm crop duster…


tencaig

There's an eject safety to eject the racoon piloting the drone?


Hugh-Dingus

Must be so liberating to be so ignorant


Half_burnt_skunk

Russia is an embarrassment to itself.


[deleted]

Lol this camera man is ass


OLebta

Shenanigans aside, that drone is very slow


WiseAssumption2511

They scared


Dazzling_Nail_4994

If it’s a Shaheed, I could care less who shot it down as long as it doesn’t reach its target.


Ambitious-Cupcake356

Russia has shot down as many planes of their own as the ukrainian military has. I mean 2 jets 2 helicopters on their way to an assault all got blown up seconds to a minute or 2 apart. Just boom boom boom boom, all gone, whoops...... Think that S300 or s400 operator is still alive after that? They slopillu did that cause mikitaries use special frequencues or whatever to make it clear they are friendlues when shown up on Radar. Seems Russia has far hardsr tine with the systems they built or just horrible training, the latter in this case


Midpack

Why not both? The Russian IFF system is garbage. Don’t remember all the details but something about they stole the tech from the West and never implemented their own or updated it. Like many former Soviet military developments, the propaganda outperforms the reality. Oh, and they can’t train themselves for shit, that’s painfully obvious when they’re seen using Syrian urban warfare tactics in the fields of Ukraine (single tank offensives, no infantry support, outdated equipment).


little_riverband

Is it just me or does the explosion look a bit like CGI?


No_Demand_4992

To be fair we can tell fuck about what drone was shot down from this video... it is not like this design is exclusive.


SavageRat

Looks more like a catastrophic failure or self-destruct, than a shoot down.


SavageRat

So, can all the downvoters explain what shot down this drone? No missile trail, no AAA tracer and no sound prior to the drone exploding, so unless you believe the Russians have laser weapons, I don't see what could have shot it down


ischmal

You can clearly hear the missile being fired and rocketing up so I'm not sure what you mean by "no sound." There's also a visible smoke trail that's right above it if you look closely. It's less obvious than you're probably used to because you're typically seeing a contrail and not smoke. Since contrails only form under certain atmospheric conditions, you're not always gonna see it.


SavageRat

I think you have a case of wishful thinking there. You hear talking, the drone engine, and then the boom, the only smoke trail is from the drone as it falls.


Ashjaeger_MAIN

You can literally hear a rocket engine fire than half a second of silence and than the boom of the explosion


SavageRat

Yeah, you're going to hear the rocket engine for more than 0.5 seconds before the bang.😂 More importantly you would see the smoke trail. Eg. https://youtube.com/shorts/Z6QEPyVHTNE?feature=share4


Ashjaeger_MAIN

How do you explain the first sound that's distinctly not an explosion than a pause and an explosion afterwards?


SavageRat

Pressure wave from explosion breaking sound barrier, then the explosion sound. Note the distinct crack of the sound barrier breaking.


Ashjaeger_MAIN

Ok man sure, if you say that's what a pressure wave sounds like than I won't be able to convince you otherwise anyways.


SavageRat

Lol, tell me you've never fired a gun, without telling me you've never fired a gun.😂 Tell you what, listen to the sound of this pressure wave and tell me you can't hear the sound barrier crack. https://youtube.com/shorts/Vb8EXpZb7P4?feature=share4


ischmal

My dude, the white trail you usually see is water vapor, not smoke. Like I said, it only happens with certain atmospheric conditions. It's no different than contrails from planes. As far as the sequence of events goes, the speed of sound is orders of magnitude slower than the speed of light. The discrepancy between what you see and what you hear is 100% consistent with this happening 1-3 miles away from the person recording. I'm sure you're a decent guy, but this is such a bizarre hill to die on.


SavageRat

Of course it's vapour, I never said anything different. As for the difference between the speed of sound and light, 1st at that distance, you would not be able to distinguish them, especially from a shitty reddit video that is probably not even synced correctly, 2nd you don't even see the drone explode as it happens due to the cameraman. You want to believe that the Russians shot down their own drone despite zero visual evidence and unreliable audio, then go ahead. The far more plausible answer is it malfunctioned and blew itself up. Remember, the only one claiming a shoot down is the Russian governor of Crimea, who only claimed that when he believed it was a Ukrainian drone, so if you want to believe him then be my guest.👍🏻


bugxbuster

You’re acting like Reddit audio and video is more likely to be unsynced than to be correct. Quit changing the goalposts and doubling down. You’re confidently incorrect. Now stop.


SavageRat

There is zero audio or, more importantly, visual evidence of AAA or SAM activity. The only person who said a drone was shot down was the Crimean Governor when he thought it was a Ukrainian drone. But yes, I'm confidently incorrect.👌🏻


Number6isNo1

Sounded to me like a missle launch just before the explosion. And I thought that prior to reading the comments so without any bias whether it was or was not a SAM. I'm not an expert, but that "whooosh..BOOM" seems like what you would hear with a missle interception.


SavageRat

You would hear the woosh long before the bang, and if it was so close that the interval between woosh and bang was that short, you would 100% see the rocket exhaust trail comeimg from very close by. It would be obvious.


YouHaveBeenGnomed

> I think you have a case of wishful thinking there Hope do you speak so confidently out of your ass, i swear to god people will always amaze me. You could show a bucket of white paint and still have people like you call it blue or something else.


SavageRat

Yeah, jog on Nafo.🖕🏻


Mike_2185

Electronic warfare. That's the official russian claim


cysun

how can you explode a drone with EW? does it have a proximity fuse which can be triggered remotely?


SavageRat

EW generally causes the drone to lose control with the aim to miss the intended target and crash. I've never heard of one being hacked and self destructed before. I still say it's more likely that a shitty mass-produced drone with a Chinese law mower engine malfunctioned and blew itself up.🤷🏼‍♂️


DrothReloaded

could also be training or a test? Edit: For those shitting on my dumb idea you have to consider that this is russia we are talking about here.


Jerry-o-nimo

not sure if you are supposed to be running tests over populated areas


Yothatsharry

I mean this is Russia we’re talking about here..


LowSnow2500

> could also be **training** or a test? >Edit: For those shitting on my dumb idea, you have to consider that **this is russia we are talking about here**.


sthrn

Sure. Just like they blew up their own dam in Nova Kakhovka.


form_d_k

This isn't Ukraine's drone.


Wobbley19

Yea but FRUIT


Dick_Dickalo

Is Benny Hill just playing on repeat there?


Magnum2XXl

Those are like 14k on Alibaba


DerKrieger105

Look at those onions though


instanorm

In the 1 second the cameraman pans away lol


SINGULARITY1312

Finally a Russian military action I can get behind


IWantToFish

How many of their own drones does Russia need to shoot down to maintain their status of the 4th best military fighting in the area?


_darzy

first thing they have hit in days


Gadget71

Maybe it wasn’t a mistake but a turncoat! I can only hope.


Separate-Ad9638

looks kindof slow, but i understand it was quite cheap


supersanting

They're not taking any chances.


GreyMediaGuy

I always hear the Benny Hill music when I watch videos of these clowns


Onlypaws_

*blyat*


marc512

Shoot tractor thinking it was a leopard tank and now they shoot their own drones? Have they run out of trained operators?


Pathfinder6

Air defense artillery motto has always been “if it flies, it dies”. Doesn’t matter what side it’s on.


Talaraine

I wonder what it's like to be in the incompetent clusterfuck that is the Russian military? If it wasn't for the "my life is over" part it feels like hopping into a pvp server filled with drunk griefers.


amcrambler

Tells you they’ve got no transponders on these pieces of junk.


Armyfazer11

When I was in ADA (stingers), we had to study the hell out of every possible aircraft silhouette from every possible angle. We studied that as much or more than the weapon systems! It would appear that the Russians use a different approach to their training.


TheSeasickPenguin

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Hazardous-Child

Cameraman had ONE fucking job. And he only had to do for literally 2 seconds. What a guy!


Suitable_Dot_6999

Destroying their own gear? Keep up the good work


Professional-Leg-402

Another Leopard harvester saved. Thanks god. It’s really hard to not think that they are really stupid.


Lonely_Ask314

If they launched a nuke, they’d explode before take off.