Darwin’s War | Inside the secret bunker of Ukraine’s ace FPV drone pilot 

I like how you showed a civilian vehicle getting blown up at 4:48 how do you know that was not a war crime and why did you add post effects to it?

there is no honor here

saved from being sent to some emirate is what the Russians did

​@@factsarefactsanddonotlie8397 no it's not a civilian vehicule vladimir, now shut up

War is a racket.

Vaping is cringe. Just smoke real cigarettes.

I get this every time I get on Halo. Last thing I need is for it to happen in real life.

@@touofthehighplains Yeah because cancer is manly.

@Shinshocks555 ew

These drone pilots don’t get taken prisoner when caught. They usually get killed.

Well Darwin's law actually isn't even that. It is not the most adaptable individual who survives, because you're DNA and your environnement lead to only one phenotype for one individual. It is a one shot thing. The multiple attempts at "finding the right solution" (= adapting) happen at species level, not at individual level. The individuals who survive are not the most adaptable, they are those who's phenotype matches the enivronement the best so that the combination of env+genome maximises their reproductive efficiency (for this geneome to be spread as much as possible), with reproductive efficiency roughly seen as a combination of actual fecondity (from attractiveness to partners to reproductive cell efficiency during mating) and survivability from birth to the moment when reproductive opporunities will appear. Which can involve self qualities, as much as parents behaviors, social structures, etc etc. Anything that will maximse a young individual to grown and finally procreate. In Darwin's law it is quite not the individuals who adapt. rather it is mainly the species who adapts, mainly by generating a lot of individuals and exposing them to "environmental testing", filtering those who survive to reproduce, a.k.a the most suited for this precise given environement.

@@pierrew1532 Yes, but that would have been a little long for a final statement

Yesssssss 🎉🎉🎉

Strength doesn't just describe physical strength. If you pass your genes off successfully, that is a strength. You just have a limited literary understanding.

​@@pierrew1532in this analogy the species could be the AFU, not the soldier

What were you waiting for a serenade

that was cold

Literally Dio

​@@gastonnoriega9931Maybe an estimate or something, certainly didnt expect something like "who cares they are disposable." but hes clearly a real warrior.

No i dont because i dont like remembering how much money i spent xD

You can see from his eyes that he is not cold. And why would you love such a thing?

This guy look so young yet,a chain smoker. 😲

Imagine dying by zoomer's hand. I can't imagine worse fate...

​@@user-vu3pe7ui6g OK boomer

rigger 1.0

It's hard watching this cause I know for a fact most those Russians would rather not be in this war and are being forced to fight.

@@Mikesusendsadasdc Yeah I hate that this "cool cyberpunk kid" is being glorified and used for propaganda. We just watched a son, maybe a father get obliterated by a drone scared for his life in a field. I don't care what side he's on. awful stuff

LOL

😆

They use Xbox controllers to pilot drones because they knew it's something they already have muscle memory using.

​@@rather_be_a_catDarwin was using a Radiomaster TX-16 transmitter, it's infinitely more precise than an Xbox controller.

@@kmieciu4ever I mean the military drones in the US.

god thats so true

technology advances

The question is why the Ukrainian have not assembled an army of 10 million drones to use that enders game strategy. My money is on China using their manufacturing capability to take over the world with drones in the next 20 years. Decoys can be as cheap as cardboard and a motor using aerodynamic self stabilization on a calm day or towed.

@@JustGoAndFly where will China get all the computer chips needed to make all these drones? Taiwan's the one making all that stuff.

@@JustGoAndFly there is also the bottleneck on production

Artillery is the big killer though. Drones kills nothing compared to artillery.

They are there at night too! All the time, the horror never stops…!

@@oooooooooo3449 Idk about infantry, but I know drones make up more than 60% of tank kills per month in ukraine atm.

@@oooooooooo3449 Artillery kills, but mainly makes the enemy retreat. Drone pilots are individually the biggest killers in this war. At least on the ukranian side. They are using thousands every single day. There are several hundred pilots like this guy, and there are hundreds of new videos of drone attacks every day.

​@@oooooooooo3449how do you think they scout for fires? They use drones because sending FOs would be a suicide mission.

I've actually seen an interesting video by Lindybeige about PTSD in historical warriors and later soldiers and in it he claimed that societies in which grieving together and processing emotions together isn't seen as unmanly there was a way lower rate of psychological battle scarring. Which makes sense considering modern research on processing traumatic events.

I don't agree. He is a journalist, so he is expected to ask questions that viewers have. I think that is a difficult part of being a journalist, you sometimes have to ask dumb, challenging or inappropriate questions and let the person being interviewed handle it. Same with asking about technical details of the weapons, the interviewer is expected to ask a little bit about the capabilities of the weapons even though of course he doensn't want to reveal secrets. It's then the soldiers job to say 'classified'. Of course there is a balance on how to handle these questions and how many times you can ask the soldier do you see the faces of your dead enemies at night? It does feel inappropriate and cringe.

Completely agree with you on this. It really started to grate and isn't helpful to those out in the field. His mind needs to be on his job, not thinking about these sort of questions

@@joostdriesens3984just because dumb civis want to know “does he have ptsd” “do you see the faces” and all the other obvious shocking questions, doesn’t mean the journalist has to be as brain dead. But most will be for views.

@@joostdriesens3984 Yeah but I honestly don't give a S about journalistic integrity when it could result in one soldier thinking a bit too much and becoming combat ineffective. The privilege of the press should come AFTER survival.

No, not in combat but. Afterwards it is.

Not as f'd up as killing a man no? You dont just get to ignore the life you have ended like it you werent responsible

@@TuriGamerlmao right tf is OP on

He seems pretty chill to me

That's what the drugs do.

I think hes just tired man

Imagine that in your country everyone is being killed - civilians, women, children - what will your feelings be?

I think it's just the lighting in the bunker combined with the lighting they're using for filming. You'll notice the reporter's eyes are also super dilated.

@@churblefurbles But what do they fight for? The Russians in Ukraine arent fighting for their homeland - Russia was never invaded by Ukraine.

@@z0h33y Man, I'm debating wherever or not to get into a back and fourth with you based on wherever or not you're reasonable or unreasonable but your knowledge of Ukrainian & Russian people is very alarming. This war isn't black and white as Western Media outlets cover it, the Russians & Ukrainian's often share family in these regions / the towns in Ukraine are filled with Russian families of generations / there are many post Soviet families established after liberating Ukraine post Second World War. The history of the Russians & Ukrainian's goes back thousands of years, it is a complicated history. Additionally, Ukrainian land has been used to invade Russia multiple times throughout the last few hundred years, by foreign powers. This is undisputed historical knowledge, so it is no surprise that Russia reacted with Ukrainian's attempts to join NATO through dating back to the cancellation of the Minsk Agreements.

@@dustywoood It is black and white. The Russians are invading another country. It does not matter whatever Putin history lesson 5,000 years ago. "There are many post Soviet families establisted after liberating Ukraine post WW2", yes and theres also many Ukrainian families who were destroyed by Soviet Russia during Holodomor. In fact, if you look at the history of massacres done by the Soviets in Ukraine, the Soviets were not friendly towards Ukraine (look up Vinnytsia Massacre). So this idea that Ukraine and Russia are friendly and have a nice relationship in the past, is wrong. And this whole idea of, "well hundreds of years ago that Ukrainian land was used to invade Russia by foreign powers", does not matter. Ukraine was never planning to invade Russia. Ukraine invading Russia would be like if Canada tried to invade the USA, its not going to happen. Next you will tell me that Poland was also liberated by Russia in the past.

@@churblefurblesyour not well I formed. Apparently you do t no how Russians think.

@dustywoood Actually it’s black and white. You seems to be heavily brainwashed by Russian propaganda. If NATO would attack Russia from Ukraine-why they are not attacking Russia when war already started? Why NATO is not sending their best weapons? You logic is false and can’t stand any argument-like every Russian propaganda.

Init that's just shoved a pipe right up most militarys years training in everything and smoked it in a second by nothing more than effectively a few hundred quid kids toy. It's probably quite angering to some folk that who train hard and then this happens modern warfare is scary

That may have been the case at the start of the conflict. now they're sending rookies and convicts.

He didn't want to be a soldier or do this. He was in medical school. He had to drop out in order to help his country. He is saving many of his countrymen from getting blown up. I don't think any of them are looking at this skilled drone operator with jealousy or anger. And the Russians, most of them not well trained, are doing the same thing with their own drones. Pretty sure any soldier, old school trained or not, understands and adapts to whatever new tools are going to keep them alive. And "Hot pockets"....pretty sure not in a Ukrainian war bunker. It's a moot point to be jealous or angry over. Really

goes both ways tho, remember that

Its also going to be the shortest service ever if he actually had to fight in peer to peer combat

Yes you would have certain death with no escape

@@gastonnoriega9931 huh?

I saw something saying this guy has already killed more than 100 people

​@@Vengeful_Zx в день!

Does that surprise you? There are now hundreds of thousands of civilian victims in Ukraine - what are you talking about? The guy defends his country, his family, his loved ones. And the fact that the Russians are bombing, for example, Kharkiv with 1000-kg warheads does not surprise you? We did not start this war, but the West and Russia guaranteed us security in exchange for nuclear weapons - so where?

It's the next generation of warfare. There are probably highly classified bookshelves filled with papers on this subject in the depths of the American Pentagon. Watching theories, and which academics get proven right or wrong is probably shattering the foundations of military, logistical, and tactical theory for decades to come. Their medals will literally be the fact that an entire branch of the military dedicated to drone warfare in every country around the world will be deemed a sign of a modern military force. Their careers will be picked over for decades to come in order to analyze and optimize their strategies. These folks will get more than medals after this is all done, they'll have careers and be regarded as legends.

That's kinda the same no? I'm not a native English speaker, but to me "fittest" means "that fit the best".

@@karolean8342 Us native speakers often mis-quote , often saying 'strongest'; this correction made here emphasises 'the most suitable'

@@andrewboddy2791modern English also bastardized the definition of fit to be athletic. Whereas the definition of fit so simply the best fit. Darwin is not going to use fit to describe a bird with a pointier beak lol. It’s just best fit for the situation.

@@nhatho1723wait til you learn words can have more than one meaning🤯

⁠@@andrewboddy2791well you clearly don’t live in the states bc no1 says “survival of the strongest”🤣 even auto correct goes to fittest

I think you and I have a very diffrent concept of peak performance. He is a coward hiding in the dark with a joystick nothing to be proud of, not a war hero and will never be not even amoung hes owns comrades belive me those clowns are hated on both side and when captured and they often are, they are tortured to death, they know what areas those drones are comming from just like detecting motar fire. Rember the russians have Intel drones like the RQ-4 war hawk and the A10 warthog survalince combat drones sitting 40.000 feet above and beyond detecting even a Mouse in the high grass

The vanguard of the modern soldier.

NO, this is what COWARDS look like!

Paintball bro spotted

@@austinjavins8362 used to be not much anymore

Me too. I saw them using my exact model of drone 2 years ago to drop grenades. Now they are using it as suicide FPV killer drones. It's surreal. A lot of death.

Yeaaaaaa same. Still gonna fly though

Thank you for your future service. 🙏🏽✌🏽

This is propaganda, glad you see through it.

@@wintertimeblues😂 says the pro Russian you’re a joke 🎉

@@thomaslane344 you dont need to be on any side to see it as propaganda

@@thomaslane344 so being anti war means being Russian? Wow I think you need to find a dictionary or take a class so you stop confusing everything that goes wrong with Russians. Gremlins are not Russians. Bad luck, is not the Russians. The lady who cut you off in traffic is not a Putin puppet. Sometimes people disagree with you, that does not mean they are government actors. But hey I guess my currency should be devalued, the us should invade from the other side, and we should just start WWIII! Isn't that what you really want?

@@dedecekshoubami3752 what wrong image is being pictured here exactly? This seems like a pretty accurate frontline report regarding the duties of a FPV pilot.

When you are flying a FPV, you still have to be close to the front. It’s not exactly danger-free, the other side might have same setup that you have, it becomes some kind of chess in the end, every time you take off you risk of being exposed your location.

@@DanielOcean-xn1ts That's how dumbed down they have these people. They think this guy is working from home. SMH and over 100 people liked the comment. Where did all the smart people go?

@@DanielOcean-xn1ts you don't have sense of humor...

Except he's in a bunker in a war zone only a couple km's from the enemy

​​@@yesdude3914 gotta do what it takes to avoid hackers/doxers and get the best ping to win...

No, he does. "Survival of the fittest" literally means "Survival of the most adaptable". Fit does not only mean "in good physical shape" in English. #TheMoreYouKnow

He is a biology student

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@@Luggruff It actually means "survival of the best dressed."

There wasn't any indication the reporter didn't understand it. He said "survival of the fittest" which is what the original Darwin said

Underground bunker it is

Shotgun

conflict is when your parents fight in the kitchen, this is a real war dude

7:58

But nah the laugh destroyed me 🤣🤣🤣

@@KijCiWOkoSuko me destroy the fact that this can easy happen to us also . this is no game dude , u cant just respawn and run again ^^ .. it game over

By the way what Darwin answered literally means "feeling of completing my duty" or something like that, the word "accomplishment" has a slightly different meaning

Campers in COD be like

Wow this is fascinating! I have so many questions for you. Do guy honestly think Ukraine can be victorious over Russia? Why?

​@@jeffclark2675 chances dont matter, if you feel you may die or be enslaved, you fight.

Hi Julie, what does making drones entail?

More info please 🙏

@@geomagstabilizers7807yeah because Russia wants to enslave the citizens of Ukraine? I’ve never heard that one, especially since Putin said repeatedly he didn’t want to invade, but because UKRAINE kept violating the Minsk agreements, (even the prime minister of Germany said “the Minsk agreements were pretty much just to buy time for Ukraine to arm up,”) so they had no interest in peace negotiations. Putin has sued for peace talks repeatedly, except America and Britain told Ukraine not to talk to Russia, so who is the war-hungry population? And Ukraine is kidnapping citizens off the street and forcing them to the front line, yet Russia has 8 times the population, but you think Ukraine is going to be a problem? Russia is trying NOT to wipe Ukraine off the map, if they wanted to run through the country they could’ve a year ago.

I wondering how he will adapt if his toys disappears and he will be forced run in the forest to adapt🤦‍♂

@@geraldasgipas5919 The same could be said about snipers or pilots. So what?

That's literally what Darwin meant.

Whats the set up? i'm starting with BetaFPV

Тако желе да привуку кијевске тинејџере из диско клубова у рат.

Has some real Dio "How many breads have you eaten in your life?" energy

Сву дрогу плаћају американци, а он сам нема појма колико је кафа штетна.

Yeah, when I saw his goggles I pretty much remembered the Netrunners from Cyberpunk 2020 or 2077

@@viniciusmelo8010 with the vape smoke too.

@@viniciusmelo8010 I do this for fun on the daily. You mean I could get paid for this??

@@wonderbread6100 If you man the kamikaze drones into russian tanks...yeah!

@@viniciusmelo8010not to nerd out but in cyberpunk, he would be referred to as a rigger!

That sounds like such a vibe

Darwin California

@@JackFromWyoming imagine defending a country that wants to destroy a nearby democracy, and then turn around and claim those aiding in defense are consumed by propaganda

😊

@@JackFromWyoming I love propaganda

They showed his face. There will be a hit squad out as soon as the war ends.

You can be shure the footage was reviewed before release.

@TheKobiDror It's not about the footage. It's about the reporters being there in the first place.

When they are going through 40 drones a day the media attention is worth it. I hope congress can get their act together.

@@edwardmitchell6581 You should stop funding foreign wars and invading countries. People hate the US primarily for this reason.

Than stop doing nothing and start helping Ukraine the way you can

One could've said the same thing the first time ranged wepons were created and you didn't have to engage in melee combat anymore. That's just another evolution of warfare, the same as many others during the thousands of years of humanity's history. Just cope with it

It's him

@@bilyyj Violetta looks very much like a young woman.

15:27 ​@@bilyyj

Only 5 a week, she’s lazy

I think its a side hustle. She probably still has her normal job

Terry Pratchett wrote a novel like that called “Only You can Save Mankind” and later Ernest Cline (“Ready Player One” did a novel called “Armada” with a similar theme. Robin Williams had a movie called “Toys” like that. And of course there’s “The Last Starfighter” and “Enders Game”. But now we have AI so it will probably be robots killing people in full autonomous mode.

please read Ender's Game. You will not be disappointed. They made a movie out of it with Harrison Ford, but it doesn't do the book justice.

You don't need millions of pilots. The process of getting to location can be fairly easily automated. You basically pass control for the last minute or two of flight to the person who is better at hitting specific targets. Strikes every 2 minutes instead of a 15-20 minute cadence this group is at while leaving operators in the loop.

I pray there’s a leaderboard somewhere

​@@BigTomJeffof course there won't be. It's a war😂.

cyberpunk2024 Ukraine DLC

I'm sure Eastern Ukrainians were enjoying their lives before their language and voice were silenced as well. What about the kids on a beach who were attacked by Ukranian artillery?

​@@SongsAboutHappiness You ever ask why the SVR and Russian military would send artillery into residential eastern Ukraine to launch attacks on Ukrainian forces?

@@SongsAboutHappiness Ah the usual whataboutism again by the Kremlin friends and contrarians.

@@SongsAboutHappiness pathetic kremlin bot

@@tdov7622 ^ukrat

that and he's basically a kid! 20 yo is crazy

This is normal competitive gamer behavior your just seen it translated to real life and weaponized.

Still be guys kicking in the door to said bunker. I can't imagine what they would do to a captured drone pilot

I said the same thing 11 years ago

You never told anyone that, stop lying.

Behind those 1000 are those who bring them into positions, who launch the drones outside the bunker, who provide communication, surveillance, jammers, who protect them all. But the biggest job still on those who in front of them in trenches and those who more likely will be targeted by drones (and not only) from the opposite side.

The next stage is AI piloting so there’s no limit to how many drones can be seeking targets at once.

"Ice Man" is pretty cold.

Is it? Russia will find him eventually, and they are unlikely to be filled with forgiveness.

@@muhcharonaohh shiver me timbers

​@muhcharona eh the Russians have lost a lot more than the ukranians, I would say yall have more to fear than them.

@@muhcharonaomg I shidded my pants in fear!!

Ukrainians don’t have a choice

i was thinking the same thing. they show this girls face, give a name, occupation and city where she lives. absolute braindead levels of opsec.

they probably asked for permission, plus the russians don't have the resources to manhunt any ordinary person or they would have to go after millions of people who help the cause.

Maybe it's propaganda​@@spqr49

Chernivtsi is way in the rear.

you're right. This should be on a need to know basis... and ALL enemies do not need to know (about the people, their details and locations etc., simply never). Edited: Typo edited.

uhmm

That is a real possibility. I've seen the slaughterbots video 🙂

@@Stinger32 go check it out if you're not familiar with what im referring to. its a possible scenario laid out by a fella that was worried about the tech heading in this direction before it had done so.

We are there we just don’t know

Everything the defense industry is currently selling and developing is all automated to a degree if not 100% then it has automation in some other way. Guns with ai, dog robots with bombs, boats that drive themselves, drones with bombs that are ai driven that can bomb another drone.

no one wins in war

@@rumbleb2654 It would be so much more simple if that were actually true.

@@orion3253 How would it be simpler if no one won? Then what you end up with an endless cold war??????????? Besides the quote doesn't mean no one wins the battles............................... It refers to people, equipment, money, morale, etc. Find me a modern war where we gained any more of those things than we lost....

that steady hand that he use to fly drone now could had been on the operating table saving lives... the cruelty of war...

Точняк, как и сейчас маски носят, черепа, ,, Призрак,, просто ребята играют войнушку,, а кто на передовой, там кровь и боль, с обоих сторон

are all low key warfighters

nice compare a fkn video game to war, nice one nerd

@@rickvermeulen3678 Kind of my point... noticing out how sick those games really are, gamifying something so real and horrible.

LOL.................................................................................................................

Enough to inspire you to volunteer to the front lines?

@@John_shepardthat’s the only other solution? They are saying they are inspired by resistance to an aggressor criminal nation.

Triggered orc comment section 😂

US sends paper and outdated equipment. Ukraine sends cannon fodder. Nice deal, ukrotards LOL

These keyboard warriors think it's a game. It's all fcked

If these operators fall into enemy prison. Very nasty things happen to them.

Yeah, it's totally a one sided conflict, nothing like.... Oh.... Wait.... I don't know..... Cancelling the Minisk agreements in order to arm Ukraine with Western equipment? Yeah, that's not provocative in anyway... Let's just install military equipment on Russia's border like that wouldn't provoke a response or anything....

They don't feel ashamed since a long time

I think in general, unhinged uniformed peope in unmarked vans force people like that into fighting. Only not as drone operators, typically.

You mean Biden and Boris Johnson? Nah, you clearly have no idea about the World, it is the circles behind them that wanted and made this happen.

America forced him* Nuland forced him*

the survivors will be counted at the end...

for russians, they'd have a poor boring life... for them it's a best adventure of their lifetime, I guess it's in their culture and education, cult of war and cruelty. obviously they shoulda stayed at home, now no mercy...

africa is worse than war

My thoughts exactly.

Grotesque journalists like this guy do not help. The coup in 2014 started this conflict; anyone with a heart and a brain knows you don't forget killing your own citizens.

sure, so russians can get home

$400-$500 per FPV. This is the average price in Ukraine.

​@@Alex_K52still way cheaper than anything else that flies and explodes.

@@Alex_K52 They make FPV drones as low as $250 in China, imagine the warfare in the not so distant future.

@@user-zn5hz7re7r Wow... Yeah, they're effective right now. We'll see what kind of defense we get against them.

@@Alex_K52 Directional jammers or buckshot. Hard part is aiming the jammer / shotgun at the drone. Jammers placed in a high volume can target a range however.

Yeah, it would be like getting blown up by a giant bug.

...and they are

definitely, imagine hearing that incessant buzzing sound, not knowing it would be coming for you. Id tremble in anxiety

forget

Веома дрогиран, наркоману.

Bro gamers do this job 10 times better than a doctor

​@@chrisderidder4087 he's hyped for Ukraine.. little does he know..

The drone pilot crossed a line when he laughed after killing a man. RU-vid crossed a line showing us this disgusting content without any PSA warnings attached. But as long as it furthers the agenda it's fine. Imagine if the tables turned and we had a Russian kid here laughing about killing someone. The comments would be very different, the video wouldn't even be allowed to exist, so F this entire thing all together

20:08 Yes like this question like why man.

Honestly crazy, if even 10% of the drones manufactured daily hits the target, that's 275 enemy casualties minimum daily just from drones

and most don't work against Russian EW and are made of carboard, lol that you listen to Kiev propaganda

It's diy replacement for artillery, clown. And they need 10x of that to even match Russia

@@sinfulgraceif they were made of cardboard russians wouldn’t have such a hard time getting any land 😂

I donate to Sternenko who sends 200 to 500 drones everyday to the front. I think overall accuracy is probably a little higher than 10% but no where near 50%. Considering the cost of the drones being less than $400usd it's money well spent. Compare that to damage done its way more effective even at 10% than any weapon. Of course he sends long range, thermal, and heavy lift drones too but even their cost is still below $1k. BTW each drone series has a name that you see at the bottom of the screen that refers to who they were made for(as in the volunteer group or what they want the series to be named). I saw 4 different ones for them. 92nd is a top tier unit and if they get them from several groups then they are a top operating group.

Because it's not a game.

@@informitas0117it is imagine a war fight like this only drone operator against drone operator Ppl sitting inside playing video games tryna take out the other group playing video games (but this video game brings fatal consequences)

fpv isnt a game 💀 we fly actual quads too

@@c4ssowary it literally is he’s playing like it’s cod getting hit markers.

@@c4ssowary what do you think quadcopters with cameras are cameras?

During the interview he said that without the war he would now probably be on third year of medical school.

This is too far from over, not every cool kid gonna make it

​@@AntonKobaat least they lived and died fighting for their lives, family and home. They fought for something much greater than themselves. You could live up to a hundred but could you say the same that you fought for something greater than yourself?

Let's be honest, he's kind of a psycho

@@vladgarcia4487 they're our heroes, the thing is normal life might never come. Or you know you can never get that war out of you, even when it's over

As soon as ruSSia stops its invasion then the ruSSian invasion of Ukraine will stop.