Still Alive After Yet Another FPV Drone Attack
By:Giorgio Provinciali
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Khotyn The worst is over. The car we were traveling in in the Druzhkivka sector of Donetsk Oblast was severely damaged, so much so that it was unusable for a long time.Coming face-to-face with an FPV drone is like staring death in the face. No matter how much you try to avoid it, if it has you in its sights, its almost like playing Russian roulette with the gun almost fully loaded. A reflex, perhaps influenced by the subversive maneuvers learned from spending so much time with the guys at the front, caused our press car to veer off the road on its own, while we both managed to escape.
The car repairs took longer than expected, testing my skills as an engineer under pressure. The incident happened on November 7th, and the car was fully functional only yesterday, December 3rd. Alla Perdei she was once again exceptionally good at keeping her cool and helping with little or nothing. Weve been very lucky considering that two other journalists with their press cars were shot dead by a Russian drone nearby in Kramatorsk, and two more were targeted by an FPV drone in nearby Kostiantynivka.
Anti-drone systems are now less effective becausefiber-optic drones can evade almost all jamming systems, whileso-called detectors still lack the accuracy needed to scan the sky and detect their presence. Radio-frequency drones can be intercepted, and specialized devices designed to disable them can even show live on a monitor what their digital eye is currently seeing. Butagainst a fiber-optic drone, the challenge is greater.Active countermeasures are required: anti-drone drones, light machine guns, shotguns with scattergun ammunition, or new automatic targeting systems based on artificial vision. Among those on the front lines, some have shot down more than one with these devices, because fiber optics protect data transmission from interference but do not shield the drones shell from kinetic weapons.
Physical barriers still exist, designed to make FPV drones fly close to obstacles that can cause them to become blind due to sudden tension or violent vibrations. The access ramparts and anti-drone corridors where weve recorded all our latest reports are specifically designed with bottlenecks, blind spots, and vertical barriers such as canopies.
Following the example set by the Ukrainians in 2022,the Russians are deploying fire-breathing drones capable of dropping napalm on nylon anti-drone nets, which eventually disintegrate, leaving large gaps. Until recently, almost all drones were visually piloted by an operator, but nowthey can autonomously eliminate their targetsonce the coordinates are set and the algorithm controlling their onboard sensors has been trained.
Flashes, smoke, and IR/thermal systems that break up the contrast or limit direct visibility can therefore have a relatively limited impact on these unmanned devices, except in cases of thick, diffuse fog. Thus, the Russians have managed to advance into the Zaporizhia Oblast and, in the past few hours, towards the central sector of Pokrovsk.Ukraine did not have sufficient artillery and counter-battery fire to cover those areas, and they have moved on as we ourselves have done several times, joining convoys precisely at the moments whenthat death-reeling mist had swallowed everything.
However, it is precisely then thatthe Russian air force carpet-bombs cities like the one we escaped from.
It happened yesterday in Sloviansk, hit by nine KAB glide bombs that caused an unknown number of casualties, including at least two children. It occurred in the community of Mezhivska, in Dnipropetrovsk, when a high-tonnage glide bomb struck and destroyed the school where 450 children were studying. This was the sad ending of the central market in nearby Kramatorsk, which was hit twice around five in the evening the day before yesterday. It is the daily reality of Druzhkivka, so much so that spending a night there and escaping unscathed is a truly rare achievement.
A few nights ago, the explosions were so loud and so close that they made our hearts tremble in our chests, so much so that we felt sensations similar to extrasystoles. Isolated, without light, heat, or internet access, one of those nights we decided to remove all our protective gear because it would only prolong our suffering if we were hit. Its horrifying to feel like prey, especially after over a thousand days and nights of witnessing and documenting, as clearly as possible, the effects of this horror.
THANKS TO ALL WHO BACK US IN THESE HARD TIMES
在又一次FPV無人機攻擊後依然活著
作者: Giorgio Provinciali
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霍廷最壞的情況已經過去了。我們在頓涅茨克州德魯日基夫卡地區乘坐的汽車嚴重受損，以至於很長一段時間無法使用。麵對FPV無人機就如同直麵死亡。無論你如何努力避開它，如果它將你鎖定，簡直就像是在玩子彈滿載的俄羅斯輪盤賭。或許是受到在前線與士兵們相處良久所學到的顛覆性機動的影響，我的反應使我們的新聞車自行偏離了道路，而我們都成功逃脫了。
（圖：在事故發生後的瞬間，由阿拉的身體攝像機拍攝的靜態視頻捕捉到了我版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：我們將必要視為美德，借助微不足道的工具自助版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
汽車修理耗時比預期更長，考驗了我在壓力下的工程師技能。事故發生在11月7日，直到昨天，即12月3日，汽車才完全恢複功能。阿拉佩爾代再次在保持冷靜和盡力幫助方麵表現得非常出色。考慮到其他兩名記者及其新聞車在克拉馬托爾斯克附近被俄羅斯無人機擊斃，另外兩人則在附近的科斯季安丁夫卡遭到FPV無人機的襲擊，我們實在是非常幸運。
（圖：我們車修複完成前的最後時刻版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（圖：用老式方法測試冷卻係統漏水版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
反無人機係統現在效果不如從前，因為光纖無人機幾乎能躲避所有幹擾係統，而所謂的探測器仍缺乏掃描天空和探測無人機存在所需的準確性。射頻無人機可以被攔截，專門設計用來使其失效的設備甚至可以在監視器上實時顯示它們的數字視野。但反光纖無人機，挑戰更大。需要主動反製措施：反無人機無人機、輕機槍、散彈槍以及基於人工視覺的新型自動瞄準係統。在前線，有些人已經用這些設備擊落了不止一架無人機，因為光纖技術保護數據傳輸免受幹擾，但並未能保護無人機的外殼免受動能武器的破壞。
（圖：我錄製了這段鏡頭，以便通過圖片和自己的聲音提供戰場評估版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
物理障礙仍然存在，旨在使FPV無人機在靠近障礙物飛行時，這些障礙物可能由於突如其來的張力或劇烈震動而導致無人機失明。我們錄製了所有最新報告的通道城牆和反無人機走廊是專門設計的，有瓶頸、盲點和天篷等垂直障礙物。
效仿烏克蘭人在2022年的做法，俄羅斯人現在部署能噴火的無人機，能夠向尼龍反無人機網投放汽油彈，最終導致其解體，留下大洞。直到最近，幾乎所有無人機都是由操作者視覺操控的，但現在一旦設定了坐標且訓練了控製其機載傳感器的算法，它們就可以自主主消滅目標。
（圖：Alla從德魯日基夫卡一側進入克拉馬托爾斯克的畫麵，我們在那裏拍攝的視頻截圖版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
閃光、煙霧以及破壞對比度或限製直接可見度的紅外/熱成像係統，因此對這些無人設備的影響相對有限，除非是在厚重而彌漫的霧中。因此，俄羅斯成功向紮波羅熱州推進，並在過去幾個小時內向波克羅夫斯克的中央區域移動。烏克蘭沒有足夠的火炮和反炮火來覆蓋這些區域，他們的行動與我們幾次一樣，正是在那死寂纏繞的迷霧吞沒一切之際，加入了車隊。
（圖：我在烏克蘭頓涅茨克斯洛維揚斯克區的反無人機走廊附近????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
然而，正是在那時，俄羅斯空軍對我們逃離的城市進行了地毯式轟炸。
昨天，斯洛維揚斯克遭到九枚KAB滑翔炸彈的襲擊，造成了人數不詳的傷亡，包括至少兩名兒童。襲擊發生在第聶伯羅彼得羅夫斯克的梅日希夫斯卡社區，高噸位的滑翔炸彈襲擊並摧毀了450名兒童正在上學的學校。這是附近克拉馬托爾斯克中央市場的悲慘結局，前天傍晚約五點時該市場遭到兩次襲擊。這是德魯日基夫卡的日常現實，以至於在那裏過夜並毫發無傷的逃離是實屬罕見的成就。
幾天前，爆炸聲如此巨大且接近，以至於讓我們的心髒在胸腔中顫抖，甚至就像是出現了心外感一樣。在孤立無援、沒有光線、熱源或互聯網的一個夜晚，我們決定卸下所有防護裝備，因為假如被擊中，這隻會延長我們的痛苦。感到自己像獵物一樣令人恐懼，尤其是在超過一千多天的時間裏，盡可能清晰地目睹和記錄這種恐怖的影響之後。
（圖：我在頓涅茨克的奧列克桑德裏夫卡????????版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
