Inside Ukrainian FPV Kamikaze drone unit with ace pilot 'Darwin'

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Go along with Scripps News for an inside look into the Ukrainian FPV (first person view) Kamikaze drone unit. As artillery shells and rockets run short, Ukraine’s military increasingly turns to FPV drones - marking a new leap in the evolution of Ukraine's war with Russia.
We spend a day in the life of Darwin, a 21-year-old ace FPV drone pilot with Ukraine's "Achilles" battalion of the 92nd brigade. Darwin hunts targets including Russian tanks, armored personnel carriers and individual soldiers."
Our international correspondent, Jason Bellini, got rare access, over 20 hours, to Darwin and his team. An upcoming episode of Scripps News’ documentary series, “In Real Life,” will focus on the first-person experiences of Darwin, our “kamikaze kid.”
This short video is a preview of what’s to come: an all-access view of how Darwin and his team manage to take out, in a single day, nearly a dozen Russian targets.
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6 мар 2024

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@scrippsnews 2 месяца назад

More Here: scrippsnews.com/stories/ace-ukrainian-fpv-drone-pilot-darwin-shows-war-s-explosive-evolution/

@ShaleyWanda Месяц назад

With proper hero medications somewhere somewhere ... Ahhh trump. Reaves. Ellis and Cuellar.... Ahhh God's children's presence.... M quit playing our live in protector for his knowings do not have voices over mommy's thoughts or mamaws either in all virtual spaces and life planets or orbits

@Blashmack 2 месяца назад

21-year old vaping drone ace. The world is changing too fast

@faithparker6 2 месяца назад

it's always the people you least suspect

@russellg1473 2 месяца назад

@@faithparker6 as if aces in wwii were not 18 - 30 yo cigarrette smokers. who would you expect?

@jedimindtrix2142 Месяц назад

Same skills. The first game I ever played was Red Baron WW1 fight Sim on MS Dos. I'm 36, grew up playing team fortress classic, counter strike and all kinds of fast paced competitive games all the way up to today's newest games. My hand and eye coordination, compared to people who don't play games is ridiculously high. So when you transfer the skills to stuff like this, it's a natural skill set to transfer. It makes total sense that this is who you would see flying these things lol.

@DDtch6669 Месяц назад

My Uncle who fought for 4 years in Bosnia during the war always told me the best fighters was the silent and mentally stable guy who where the best fighters. Those we usually imagine, big strong beardy ones are the ones that die first because their own stupidity.

@TheEnlightenedMalignancy Месяц назад

I never asked for this 😎

@DerdOn0ner 2 месяца назад

Man’s looking like a Cyberpunk netrunner

@ticiusarakan 2 месяца назад

aga, cybernazi pilot

@ricardomeertens9165 2 месяца назад

Certain groups, such as the Russian Imperial Movement, have been accused of training white supremacists and neo-Nazis from other countries in Europe. The links between these groups and the Russian government, comprising a policy known as managed nationalism, have become particularly noteworthy since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to be pursuing the "denazification" of Ukraine.[1] @@ticiusarakansure russian bot no nazis in russia 😂😂😂😂😂

@TheIDK91 2 месяца назад

@ticiusarakan ruzzian nazis

@SmokingFrogy 2 месяца назад

Go back to sleep Vladimir

@vp6087 2 месяца назад

@@ticiusarakan You are completely true about russian tu-22 pilots killed thouthands of innocent people.

@pawel8365 2 месяца назад

"Video games will never help you in life" they said...

@fademusic1980 Месяц назад

video games have been designed to train for this eventuality for decades. they have used xbox controllers in armored vehicles for something like 15 years now

@judeabrigo278 Месяц назад

only except that the FVP drones don't have the same control scheme as video games, try it for yourself by installing a simulator, honestly Imo getting used to game control scheme hindered me into flying FPV specially in acro as you will need to train your brain unlearn everything about how a game control scheme works.

@jbaked2585 Месяц назад

I relate flying my drones to taking the Xbox outside.

@AlgorhythmKid Месяц назад

@@judeabrigo278Well said. The first time I flew, which was acro, I thought maybe something was broken. Then I just realised, it was extremely difficult. Very big learning curve. Not all can do it. If you get your head around it, it's like riding a bike though.

@Greg99rock Месяц назад

fab 3000 is smiling at your wifi connection

@ArchonLicht 2 месяца назад

It's funny that in russian and ukrainian we say "survival of the strongest" while in the west it's "survival of the fittest", which does mean the most adapted already. Here the translator translated "survival of the fittest" from eng to "survival of the strongest" in ukr, and then Darwin corrected it to "the most adaptable" thus basically fixing the translation problem.

@Eelis0 2 месяца назад

It's interesting that you bring up adaptation. Last month Foreign Affairs magazine published an article titled: "Russia’s Adaptation Advantage - Early in the War, Moscow Struggled to Shift Gears-but Now It’s Outlearning Kyiv".

@janeymers7154 Месяц назад

yeas, and besides he also corrected the common misconception about darwins famous theory. Pretty smart guy.

@Hamdad Месяц назад

It's also a more correct quotation of Darwin.

@Polychromophilia Месяц назад

@@janeymers7154he was a medical student, after all.

@RusRecon007 Месяц назад

@@Eelis0 We have a proverb that describes our mentality. Russians harness for a long time, but travel quickly.

@tacticlol 2 месяца назад

Hitting the vape cinched the scene 😂

@DanBaker108 Месяц назад

Try smoking hash and drinking whisky on the front lines in Syria lol

@mesiroy1234 23 дня назад

This jourlist is oreety crazy And nuts in one kost bombed frontline

@kiwi-freedom5113 2 месяца назад

It’s like ghost in the shell stuff. Crazy use of headsets and drones. Effective too

@obsidianjane4413 Месяц назад

GITS is set in 2029... Six years from now.

@kiwi-freedom5113 Месяц назад

@@obsidianjane4413 wow, good point. As always sci-fi is pretty spot on!

@Eupolemos Месяц назад

He's dealing out awards, lol

@DavidFPV360 Месяц назад

I fly fpv freestyle quads as a hobby and it's just crazy to see what people (have to) do with them

@ZachTNT Месяц назад

Same. I’m a big freestyle flyer but imagine if you did this as a hobby then got drafted to fly fpv artillery drones. Kinda scary to think about.

@MANTA_FPV Месяц назад

Since i started flying many years ago, i always thought hopefully no one ever comes to the idea to use them for something bad. Well here we are…. And yes i understand these guys and i would do the same to protect my family, but i don’t like the fact. Now that its popular to the world imagine what could come next….. imagine a swarm of these attacking superbowl stadium…. if you know how to fly them, no one can stop them. And the result will be it gets totally banned for normal people 😢

@ZachTNT Месяц назад

@@MANTA_FPV jeez that’s such a good point. When you start thinking about how dangerous these can actually get it starts to justify why stuff like remote ID is important even though most people are against it.

@LouisLeXVIII Месяц назад

Same, I literally know the model of goggles he's using

@derpinbird1180 Месяц назад

@@ZachTNT If that happens you would otherwise be looking at infantry so id still consider it a win

@paulvalery9778 2 месяца назад

That’s so cyberpunk

@honeybadgeractual5734 Месяц назад

13 years ago i told my room mate that FPV drone kamikazi was the artillery of the future.

@Paolo040 9 дней назад

Not comparable to artillery but surely with many advantages

@ItsJoKeZ 2 месяца назад

I think his name is darwin because he is handing out the "darwinism" award

@primeleverage2266 2 месяца назад

The best comment 😂 so Far

@NeostormXLMAX Месяц назад

He literally pointed it out, its adaptation

@paradieshenne 2 месяца назад

3:40 my biology teacher would be proud of this!

@ImmoTheBest 2 месяца назад

Thanx for the report! Stay safe!

@chaverenren981 Месяц назад

This kid is unbelievably badass. Huge respect.

@alonatrammell6093 2 месяца назад

He's so smart . Amazing

@samnater 2 месяца назад

Awesome coverage! Already knew about the drones a while ago but you covered the topic excellently for someone unaware and got in really close! Great work!