How Zelensky’s Forces Are Using Stealthy Cardboard Drones To Bleed Russian Forces In The Ukraine War
Ukrainian troops have been using Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS) drones that are made out of cardboard. At least 100 of the flat-packed drones are being supplied to Ukraine each month, as per a report by The Australian. These cardboard UAVs allow Ukrainian forces to drop bombs, deliver supplies and undertake vital reconnaissance missions. Watch the video to find out what the Precision Payload Delivery System is?
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00:00 - INTRODUCTION
01:15 - WHAT IS PRECISION PAYLOAD DELIVERY SYSTEM (PPDS)?
02:28 - WHAT MAKES ‘CARDBOARD DRONES’ STEALTHIER?
02:58 - WHAT IS THEIR PRIMARY USE?
05:00 - WHEN WAS PPDS SUPPLIED TO UKRAINE?
06:05 - SIGNIFICANCE OF DRONES IN UKRAINE WAR
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They come in pizza boxes... Assemble yourself... Australia is going to be the IKEA of military tech
@@snippe1346Well if they are working there they are fit for that war.
@@snippe1346 says the boy in his moms basement with tiny penis
So Russia wastes a 10000 dollar anti aircraft rocket to hit a 100 dollar drone - seems like good economics to me. if UA spent the equivalent russian drone budget on these, they could sent a few million of them across the border. picture that, a sky black with cardboard death.
@@FlyingSofa28 $300each This was the idea for Russia to waste a 10000 anti aircraft rocket to shoot them or let those cheap drone do they job up to Russia
Leopard in a Pizza box is next ? 🤣
That settles it... "Origami of Death" is my new metal band name lol
Some stuff here about Australia. I am a Brit and have reason to be grateful for the incredible sacrifice made by Australians in years gone by to fight for our country. To only mention a small part of their contributions, our wartime RAF was full of incredible Australian aircrew who fought and died to defend our country. Many that survived went on to fight for their own country agains the Japanese - these guys get my vote every time. Despite being a relatively small nation, the Australians are providing loads of stuff to Ukraine - well done guys. The whole western world is providing masses of supplies and weapons to Ukraine. Ultimately, however, Ukraine's future is inextricably linked to the willingness of the United States to keep providing equipment and ammunition at the current rate. I just hope they keep it coming.
thank you, "Brit?" I hope not English, cause if so, we will still chuck red balls at you next Summer ;). Have a good one!
Nothing for the 20+ million that Russia sacrificed fighting on our side in WW2?
Right, Name me somebody who wouldn't be thrilled to hear, 'oh and of course the Aussie's are here", Damn straight they are!"
These are brilliant! They have virtually NO radar cross-section, they have a decent payload capacity for their size, and they're SMART! Cheap enough to be basically expendable, since they're just cardboard, glue and rubber bands. Stunning development by the Australians.
It's amazing what people come up in empathy of someone protecting their home from invaders.
I've read some Aussie drones communicate with one another and can "swarm" a target, I hope that version ends up in Ukraine.
@@raylopez99 Wow! That's great! I hope so too.
@@raylopez99 Swarm the victory day parade in Red Square on May 9th. Fireworks show! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦♥
@@handmadehearts 🐷 FeCal & Urina!
Australia has provided Ukraine with 90 Bushmasters, M113's (armoured personelle carriers), M777 howitzers and other artillery systems, drones, munitions, financial aid... we're not just sitting on our hands, not bad for a country not in the EU or NATO.
Yes we have. And training for Ukrainians, in the UK. I suggest people do research on what my country, Australia is doing, helping Ukraine, including humanitarian supplies. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🇺🇦
Australia is the biggest military/humanitarian aid contributor to Ukraine outside NATO. Although Japan may giving us a run for our money with their latest $400m package.
Well done Australia!
Maybe so, but what good is it all doing?
@@EllieMaes-Grandad I'd say these things help Ukraine maintain their seven to one kill ratio in Bakhmut.
Cardboard drones? Now that's what I call going green.
Biodegradable drones, biodegradable targets, nitrogen rich payload, everyone wins - apart from the Russians 😂
Next there will be cardboard tanks. Hoax video. Cardboard is far too heavy. The material used for applications such as this is Balsa
Bums are becoming homeless 😢, their homes have entered the war.
Actually there's a lot of electricity, fossil fuels, and toxic chemicals used in making cardboard
@@michaelkopischke2255 or foam board
In Australia these drones are affectionately called 'Skippy' as in Skippy the kangaroo!! Oh and their also testing Skippy to deliverr cluster payloads in the outback which Ukraine wants when testing is over!!
That's awesome! Are you able to provide links? I would like to know more about this.
@@n.tfisho6491 there's a Mark Rober video on drones released in the last 2 weeks that might interest you.
@@lylestavast7652 thanks mate 👍 I will have a look
With a little tweaking, I don't see any reason they couldn't deliver cluster munitions of depleted uranium. Can't let the UK take all of the credit for contaminating Ukraine for generations to come.
greate idea to name as skippy
A million bucks isn’t even pocket change in military terms, it’s a penny lost down the back if the sofa. Fantastic value for money. It makes one of Suchomimus’ videos more explainable, where a drone took out a detection/jamming system.
Their neat unless of course they get wet/it rains, windy outside, receives even the slightest puncture or is bent even slightly etc. A single pellet from a pellet gun could render it inoperable 😂. They'll make next to zero impact on the overall ground war. 100 per month shipments they said. They'd need thousands per month to make any substantive impact whatsoever.
@strikehair55 I get you but they are waxed and could be painted with a gel coat after plastic taping to seal the gaps.
These are designed to fly in all conditions and can sustain 50+ uses
@@yzept I'd say that too if I was selling slightly enhanced cardboard. I'm sure it has more increased survivability than basic cardboard. But you can only do so much with a piece of f*cking cardboard that has a baby propeller on it. You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.
@@matthewsheeran Dually noted. I don't mean to suggest they can't get some good use out of them. I just entirely doubt it's survivability for more than one or at most a few sorties/missions per plane before rendered inoperable. I don't see them making it back half or more of the time after going airborne into the thick of things. But I get it's pretty hard to turn down an offer that cheap. If they even manage to achieve some basic forward recon in the immediate area and slowly pushing forward as they use it to creep overhead slightly ahead of them, or using it as a grenade dropper, that can have at least a decent immediate effect for small units. But I think their suggestion of using it to transfer supplies is entirely idiotic, given that it's ceiling height is almost certainly quite low, and 🇷🇺RF troops could simply trail it right back to the unit that sent it up, or the place their transferring supplies to. Seems to be best fit for very small range forward recon operations or a sacrificial lamb of a grenade dropper on longer range missions.
I live in Sydney but got to admit this is a brilliant idea.
It's Fools Day... So Fake News
@@pascalscholten4001 If you are lazy to google it, like you, you will make a fool of yourself like you just did it here Pascal Scholten. You silly goat.
Australia is donating about 100 per month. And they can be flown in the rain because they are waterproof waxed.
If I were defense minister of Ukraine I would be several thousand of these. Then spray paint them black and launch throughout the night attacking Russia trenches and such.
So simple, inexpensive and absolutely brilliant.
It makes you cry to see the whole world is supporting Ukraine. Full of love and respect from Vietnam.
the only countries that really support them are usa and a few ex soviet countries in europe
Except that the whole world isn't. You mean the whole Western World dominated by the United States, multinational corporations, and banking.
😂😂😂
Because they're not muslims. America invaded iraq, syria, Vietnam and Afghanistan no one helped them but why all world is helping Ukraine?
whole world ? lmao.
Ingenius design 🏆 Super cheap Super effektive ✊🇺🇦
Bloody amazing. Top Notch Australia!
As an aeronautical uni student this is an absolutely win for aircraft designers.
You can guarantee being Australians they'd just finished a load of tinnies and were looking at the empty box thinking "Hang on a minute..." 😂
Why not use Balsa or stretched fabric over Balsa sections. This video is a hoax. Cardboard is far too heavy
@@michaelkopischke2255 Your a hoax.
@@michaelkopischke2255 Psst. Bad news then for you mate, no bloody ‘hoax’, though admittedly I would’ve loved to see a vid of the UA fellas faces when they opened the 1st pack, would’ve caused some comments for damn sure 🤣🤣🤣 From all reports, they’re going great, I think we’ve been sending them over for a coupla months now. Been bloody brilliant against the m#rderous r#ping invaders Go Oz, keep ‘em coming 🎉🙌 Slava Ukraine Indeed 💛💙🇺🇦🇦🇺
watch out for water guns
What an awesome initiative solution with so many benefits (limited radar cross-section, cheap, easy materials to find and produce during wartime conditions, smart hands-off autonomous flight etc!!). Well done Australia! It's so good to see the whole world coming together to defeat evil.
Reminds me of the British Mosquito from WW2 built of wood. Such low-tech is so ingenious 👍
I thought of the Mosquito also; a plywood fighter plane! Come to think of it the US also built concrete cargo ships!
Amazing! Respect from Poland!
Finally, a drone where the box it arrives in is also a drone. I think I’ll order one
Tip of the hat to Aussies and the power of VB.
Well done Australia (speaking as a Pom)
Fly origami birds, you will be little angels for Ukraine! From Perth 🇦🇺
Well done Aussie mates ! This is brill. Keep up the innovations.
Someone give the FliteTest crew a shout , they are absolute experts in building all sizes of foam board planes.
It's Fools Day... So Fake News
@@pascalscholten4001 schoolchildren could build foam board planes, I could add an engine and tell it what to do, someone else can put an armament on it and send it on a mission, watch their channel, they have built some monsters😁
@@pascalscholten4001 try looking at the date the video was posted, not when you watched it
Looks like a FliteTest airframe with ArduPilot.
It looks like their waxcoat brown board
Lawrence Hargrave, the man whose historical works are exhibited in many Aussie museums, will be suitably impressed. And it's so pleasing to see a use for all those pesky Amazon boxes.
WOW no honor in battle what-so- ever
Necessity is the mother of invention . Amazing ….
Wolkenkuckucksheim Zelensky the leader of the fascist regime with its cannon fodder and paper planes.
@@peterwilson5528 Ukraine has an objectively more democratic and liberal system compared to Russia, the latter with its _dictator in perpetuo_ in power for 22 years by poisoning, jailing, and murdering the opposition.
It's Fools Day... So Fake News
@@pascalscholten4001 lol. You waited for 2 days to put this comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@pascalscholten4001 This is actually old news and very real.
Kudos to the designers. I didn't think Australia was doing enough for Ukraine but I was wrong. Slava.
We've given em 90 Bushmasters, M113's (armoured personelle carriers), M777 howitzers and other artillery systems, drones, munitions, financial aid... we're not sitting on our hands, not bad for a country not in Europe, not in the northern hemisphere and not in the EU or NATO.
We do a lot, we just aren't loud about it.🙂
@@dayforit1750 👏👏👏🇦🇺
Biggest military aid outside of NATO, including a lot more than individual countries near NATO, maybe your thinking if Austria lol, they have stayed neutral, despite what is just down the road...
Rain rain go away little drone wants to play 😢
imagine 1000 of these descending upon an airfield or assembly area.
Man, it would certainly give the enemy Fits keeping them up all night trying to figure out what are we going to do about this!
wind, rain, dust, and jammers have entered the chat
@@SincereSentinel They had said that the cardboard was WAX coated - that means Water, etc won't bother it! A pellet? Have you ever used a cardboard backstop for shooting? Cardboard is EXTREMELY strong for it's weight - especially along the length of the corrugations. Those folded over wings would have to be completely sawed off by bullets to actually fail.
And you must emagine a fiew tactical nukes burning up Ukrainian as America has don to Japan
@@SincereSentinel I didn't say it WAS... I was pointing out the FLAWS in your "logic". And if you're in a "Tomato storm" as you say - WHat the hell are you doing wasting time watching KZhead?
The Flying Pizza Box has arrived. These would have been great at Mariupol. Everyone a shoebox full of food, medical supplies, water, ammo and maybe even a few cigars and some chewing gum.
Flat pack drones what an awesome concept.
It's Fools Day... So Fake News
@@pascalscholten4001 lol. Tell that to the people being targeted
The part I find interesting is an RPG-7 warhead is at most 4.5kg, meaning these can carry them to a nearby Orc tank...
> Paper kamikaze
Exactly my thoughts too
Javelin warhead is just 2kg
120 km is not so short range! They could have been used, but weren't available, during the Azov Steel siege. Delivery of 5 Kg each would be amazing, medicine, protein rations, water treatment and other kits, imagine 10 of those arriving each day for a few days.
So ... the Azov Nazis could live to fight another day? Do you fly a flag with a swastika or black sun in your front yard too?
with hand written replies and a home function, it creates a secure network as well?
We, In Australia, have a long history of using cardboard to build war planes. The Mosquito for example... Straya is cool... SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦 ♥️ 🇦🇺
The Mosquito was built of balsa and birch and pioneered autoclaves wood composite construction which is now widely used in small boat construction. They had the lowest loss rate and highest airspeed of any WW 2 bomber.
Birch ply, balsa and spruce ! A little bit of Ash and Douglas fir…..not so sure about the cardboard but hey like you say. SLAVA UKRAINE 🇬🇧❤🇦🇺❤🇺🇦
@@MrTreacletime yeah I was taking a poetic liberty... the Mozzie is a particular favourite of mine.
@@rolfehorne1624 the Mozzie has been my love 💓 since I was a small boy reading Biggles 📚 💙
@@MrTreacletime Sitka spruce, western red cedar and UF109 but no Doug Fir. Specific gravity is too high.
So proud we can help Ukraine with this innovative drone 👍😆 AUS💛UKR #SlavaUkraini 💙💛
If we send them enough, maybe this conflict can continue until Ukraine is completely turned to rubble. Providing they have enough pensioners to send to the front.
@@dogzdigital Russia will collapse and Putin will be fertilizer before then 👍😆 Only a facist moron would be pro-Putin in Australia... 😩
If it was 1st April I’d think it was a joke. This is amazing. Why is something this unique and brilliant broadcast to the enemy? A few weeks and China and Iran will be manufacturing them.
It is a matter of time before they get their hands on one or two and reverse engineer them. But - Russia lacks the electronics. And China is not keen to get embroiled in this war.
Not as good as how the Aussies do it tho, I watched a report about these guys not long ago and they are affectionately known as skippies as in Skippy the kangaroo. Ya see kangaroos have hidden pouches where their babies are born and raised close to mumma hidden inside her pouch and that's what these drones are made for to hide the payload. And also, creators have been busy testing Skippy to carry multiple cluster payloads which Ukraine want badly but they will have to wait until testing is over to get the upgrades!!
Why is it being broadcast? ... simple, you are talking about politicians. People that never know how to keep their gums from flapping.
No , the idea was any country can order them direct from australia only cost $300 each They just send some to advertise they product
@@Allannah_Of_Rome where was the report please AG ?
Award and war winning development! Awesome Aussie ingenuity in the fight for freedom! 🇺🇦💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙🇨🇦
Brilliant idea and excellent partnership. Kudos to Australia and Glory to Ukraine.
Imagine your drone arriving by drone in a box that doubles as a drone.
I knew the Russian Army was called a paper tiger but this just rubs salt in the wound.
and something to wipe with !
Replying to Jorge de los Reyes Thanks for the chuckle Having read your comment I had a good laugh Thank you so much Greetings from South Africa
Fun fact: During WW2 American fighter aircraft used external fuel drop-tanks made out of cardboard.
Yes, the Chinese used bamboo and paper hot air balloons, and the Japanese used silk and bamboo man carrying kites.
Fun fact: IT cell is a new sarkari job
They made inflatable ones too
Gypsum, not cardboard
@@jantschierschky3461 multilayer paper and plastic. US and Brits used them. One use only.
Hell, just start making the old paper and wood planes from ww1 drone style . Cheap effective and stylish death for Russian orcs
Good show..mate..God bless Australia and the folks of down under...yours very truly Alfonso Cantu USMC
Imagine your aero project in physic college is actually top grade military equipment This operation is insane
Cheap,stealthy,and multipurpose. This is exactly the type of drone Ukraine needs right now.
i was wondering when they'd make their appearance. Extremely cheap to build, and the flat pack is a great way to ship them. One box with the engines, batteries, radios etc and a bunch of air frames. I used to build RC planes from cardboard, as it was pretty much free, balsa cost me money.
Wouldn't suprise me if the Russians tried using an actual bird as a Drone and strap a bomb onto it like they tried using Dogs as Suicide Bombers against German tanks in early years of the war on the Eastern Front, the experiment totally failed because the dogs would run back to its trainer.
good boy !!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
The dogs were trained to crawl under tanks with a bomb strapped on them, the trouble was that they were trained with Russian tanks as the target. When the dogs were released in a battle against attacking Germans, they headed straight to the Russian tanks blowing them to pieces!
@@knightowl3577 Considering how Russia is behaving in this war: Sounds pretty typical.
@@knightowl3577 I guess you never train a dog before. Or you have a wild imagination. Even if the dog idea works, you need lots of dogs. Training is not like a computer, there is no guarantee that all dogs will learn it. Also, a bomb would be remotely detonated, who cares if they come back or not.
They may be made from FOAMBOARD rather than cardboard. Foamboad is stronger and has no corrugations like cardboard. Notice the white edges, those are typical of foamboard. It's very cheap material too.
It will indeed be a stealth as cardboards don't reflect on radars.. maybe they can also create bombs made of those undetectable materials 🤔
Plastic and composites are probably used. Even metal, will create an essentially negligible radar cross section. Small drones it doesn't matter. Iranian drones fall into this category.
Поражать картонными осколками? 😁
@@user-gc5nx3vk5r White phosphorus, thermobaric mixture, the like. The reverse shake and bake. Yanks used to flush out the enemy with WP and frag with HE Frag. Now Ukrainians chase enemies into holes with HE Frag and finishes them off with thermobarics, hole in one ready-made mass grave. My advice is to return to your families as men, and not to become dog food. Surrendering gets you 3 hot meals and a nice bunk bed for as long as you need it.
also wrap a bomb in layers of paper/cardboard
@@raypitts4880 A metal object wrapped in cardboard is still visible for radar systems.
Ingenious use of simplicity. they wont see this coming.
amazing. they looks exactly like the plane models i build as a kid in the late 70s. My planes only were gliders…
Imagine the comment section if this was Russian military news
It's a good feeling to see democracies helping Ukraine .People ! never forget those who are siding with Evil Empire in these times of crisis.
Simply, simply lovely.
The innovation in the Ukraine war is just insane😮. Carry a few magazines or drop a couple of grenades - hmmm, I wonder which the Ukrainians will choose 😂😂😂
These cardboard drones are great. I love them. 👍🏼👍🏼
With a starting price of $670?? Hell's bells - you couldn't even get an infantryman's rifle for that much!! As for practicality; many years ago I bought a kit for a basic radio-control trainer aircraft, made by a company called Stanley's. Believe it or not, apart from a couple of hardwood engine bearers, some small pieces of 3/32" ply, and shaped balsa leading edge, the rest of it was made of pieces cut out of the cardboard box! The box was what's called tri-ply - two outer skins of brown paper, with a corrugated brown paper layer in the middle - and once given a very light coat of paint, it was light, incredibly tough and crash resistant. And it flew very well, too.
This is brilliant! As cheap as can be and the cardboard won't reflect radar. The only issue could be flying in the rain but I am guessing the Aussies have considered that and coated the cardboard to be moisture resistant. This solution highlights a major problem with some of the U.S. military UAVs - extremely expensive due to being more hi-tech than possibly required. One time use weapons should be a cheap as possible.
It said they are wax coated.
Wax coating for waterproofing has been around for centuries & was used before plastic became available to make rain coats 👍
Indeed, sometimes too much thought and design can go into certain devices. It was known that the USA spent millions of dollars researching and developing an impliment that would write upsidedown in a capsule in the early days of space flight. The Russians apparently used a pencil.......
The engine/electric motor and battery along with the propeller will reflect radar plenty. unless these drones are powered by rubber bands.
@@flamingfrancis 1. Fisher did it on his own money. 2. Soviets ended up buying his pens as well, because they were way better-writing and safer, than wax pencils (and graphite pencils could short out the switches via graphite dust). 3. Space agencies weren't the only buyers of those pens - they've been reasonably popular in many places.
Because they are foam or cardboard, they can take a hit in the airframe and stay flying as long as the mechanicals or electronics aren't hit. They are usually put together with HOT GLUE although almost any glue that doesn't dissolve foam will work. If equipped with a camera, they can be excellent reconnaissance planes and land easily on a grassy field. Then they can be relaunched with a new battery within a minute.
Is this the big military aid?😊😅😢😢😂
@@yaqob3275 Hey, if it can reliably deliver 3kg of boom per drone on muscovite positions...
@@caav56 Is this the upgrade to the himars from last failed ones?! Looks like russian has buried the hype of the himars...🤫✌️👅👏🤣😆😂🙂
@@yaqob3275 I haven't see the Russian propaganda that you are referring to but there is a big difference between losing a piece of military equipment in a war (a "special military operation" to you) and a weapons system "failure". There are plenty more Himars in the pipeline. Vlad ,the would be tsar, wouldn't be broadcasting about Himars systems if they weren't being effective in thwarting his invasion plans. Slava Ukraine!
@@jjhpor Sorry 😎 , propaganda is a new word used by the common westerners today because they are losing the war with Russia lol As for himars...where are they...? Russia seems to be swallowing bakhmut according to NATO boss in CNN lol. Kharkov and Kherson which Russia still occupies large parts of it lol. NATO boss said NATO doesn't have enough ammos 😆😂. I don't need CNN or russian TV to tell me that 😆😂 last time I heard himars hit Poland 😆😂 own goal 😆😂 So, where are the himars?
Cardboard drones, Paper planes, anything effective against enemy is a win win.
A smaller country, thinking smart instead of expensive. Brilliant. I wonder what the RCS is (no doubt a secret but I’m still curious :D)? 5kg of explosive and shrapnel is no joke if it lands next to you in a trench but it sounds like these are mostly being used for ISR. Can’t wait to see some video of orcs having a bad day, nevertheless.
If the latest reports are correct, these cardboard drones just destroyed 4 SU-30, 1 Mig-29, 1 S-300 anti-aircraft system, and 1 Pantsir anti-aircraft system.
Brilliant! Slava Ukraine.
Well done Australia. This is just the sort of innovation that Ukraine needs but for all of their war material requirements in their efforts to DEFEAT rUSSIA. Victory to Ukraine.
The traditional material for fixing practically anything in Oz is fencing wire. No need here - cardboard, rubber bands and a couple of fistfuls of electronica and batteries get the job done. Nice work. Hardly any RCS. Only the batteries and electronic gear to reflect radar. Lots of the gear can be from recovered drones and recycled. Well done.
As teenagers in the late 70s , my brother and I flew ' control line ' model aircraft in the backyard and local park in Bundaberg / Australia . Its surprising what can be made to fly with a big enough engine and a wing of some description , even made from cardboard . Modelling from special craft cardboard is now very common as seen on youtube , so these drones are a very cheap and logical step , hasn't this new tech changed the game bigtime . Now if someone can tell me just how Russia is a member of the U.N. and not been expelled etc .....
to counter, how is the usa never held accountable for all the wars they started and the millions of civilians they killed. you don't question that. all the might of usa influence on the world. for 70 years now we all are watching movies where the russians are always the bad guys, always drunk and have always few huge moles on their face. i was the same until i decided to look behind that curtain and the true face kame to light
If they lined the engine and electronics bay with light weight radar absorptive foam it truly would be stealth.....
There's a KZhead channel of a group of guys that has been making cardboard RC model air-planes for ages and no doubt much cheaper than commercially available models like these. Probably less sophisticated, but because of the significantly lower cost more suitable for one kamikaze applications?
I saw a drone dropping a cup of coffee to Ukrainian trenches and the Ukrainian who took it was sooooo happy but had a strange look on his face too. Soo, it might have been this cardbord bird. Australians have mastered the future of delivery warfare! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Now is the time for engineers in the world to test their inventions. Please keep it up. Good job Australians. 👏👏👏👏👏💪💪💪💪💪💪
Russia is getting their ass kicked with cardboard 😂😂😂😂
CARDBOARD WAR😄
I wonder what else could be useful made out of cardboard?
A good idea, kudos Oz. But I'm a little confused by the text at 2:49. "... radar usually detects objects that use electric motors, batteries, and propellers...". I don't see where the vid describes the propulsion system. I'd be surprised if it used rubber bands, so I would guess it would be "... electric motors, batteries, and propellers...", and a bit less stealthy. Can anyone tell me what its propulsion system is?
Just a bunch of MacGyver's, the Ukrainians. Amazing people; innovative, creative, tough, determined, and just so beautiful. Slava Ukraine. 🇨🇦
Because they're of Aussie🦘🦘🦘🦘 manufacture, do these fly inverted? That would definitely confuse the orcs. Stay Frosty, Aussies!🌻🌻🔱🔱Slava Ukraini!🔱🔱🌻🌻
They just make short hops. *Tough times never last but tough people do, Slava Ukraine.*
Thanks cobber... Slava Ukraini
Very eco friendly and on mass could reap rewards...
If you consider death a reward, anything to keep the killing ongoing.
@@dogzdigital and doing nothing.?
@@susanpotter9720 If the west wasn't supporting this conflict, it probably wouldn't have happened in the first place, it definitely would have ended in negotiations a long time ago and many lives would have been saved.
"smell that ? Pizza !, smells like, like Victory" Cardboard and C4. Oooops a Daisy.
Finally the actual cardboard army 😂
Super product. Are you open to suggestions? Those stumpy rectangular wings could be improved for ~$0 by adding winglets. That would improve lift capability and/or range.
They could be as simple as some extra cardboard held on by rubber bands.
How big is the electronics package for these drones? How big is the battery and the motor? What kind of processor does it have (hopefully more than an Arduino)? If you increase the battery and motor size, what is the practical limit to the cardboard airframe/payload size?
Proud of the Australian contribution.
This is pretty awesome. Would happily buy civilian versions of the kits as an educational tool.
Proud My country Australia 🇦🇺 a big supporter of the Ukraine 🇺🇦👍🏴☠️
Guess I was building military grade UAVs back when I was starting my RC Hobby xD
It is very good idea. It is cheaper than a artillery shell. But it can reach far long distance than 155 mm artillery shell. Very cost efficient and have much better flexibility in the field with less logistic support. way better than heavy towed artillery.
Inflatable HIMARS decoys, cardboard drones, RPG-headed toy-drones - at times I consider this war being surreal. On the other hand - the ingenuity of mankind is something to be proud of. It's just a shame that it often enough needs wars to make this ingenuity really shine.
Funny the rate of fire from HIMARS has dropped while the rate of air launched glide bombs with 500 kg warheads has increased. Russia has hundreds of thousands if not several million, dumb gravity dropped bombs now being fitted with fins and wings or Range Extender Kits.
@@michaelkopischke2255 cheap and abundant 500 kg warheads are scary.
@@michaelkopischke2255 Funny that you're lying. Funny and not surprising. You should ask those people in Melitopol, Mariupol, Berdyansk, Toretsk and Volnovakha if they recognize a drop in HIMARS. You would be surprised, I bet...
@@19SaD82 You should also ask the Ukrainian Airforce's latest statements on why they are finding it difficult to intercept glide bombs launched by Su 35s flying inside Russian air space hitting Sumy Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Slaviyansk, Liman, Nikolopol. Zaporizhia, The Russians have outsourced those range extender kits, ( rather simple, sheet metal or fibre glass fins strapped on ) to Iran. China, and North Korea . These should be turning up in large numbers. We first saw these glide bombs being used by Pakistan against Indian military outposts in Kashmir, and the Indian S-300s didn't intercept them neither did the Israeli Spyder systems, No heat signature and very low radar return. The bombs are also silent. 500 kg makes a very big bang. Unless those Su 35s are shot down by F-16s firing AMRAAMS these glide bombs will be creating much trouble for Ukraine.
@@michaelkopischke2255 So what? How's Russia doing with intercepting JDAM's and JDAM-ER's? You still don't understand it, do you? Russia hitting civilian areas doesn't help them winning this war. It cements the will of ukrainian people to kill every russian soldier on ukrainian soil. Look at Kharkiv at the beginning of the war. Mostly pro-russian in it's ideology. Then Russia came and started to strike and bomb Kharkiv. And then? And then the former pro-russian ukrainian people started to kill russian oldiers. With joy. Russia is too dumb to realize that it already lost the war. One of the reasons: Exactly this. If you don't understand this for yourself, than you're as stupid as Russia. Or call it brainwashed if you would like to look at yourself as being intelligent. I don't care. the outcome is the same: You're blind to what is happening. Right before your eyes.
So the Russians are being defeated by flying Amazon boxes lol
That's thinking out of the pizza box. Necessity is the mother of invention, and Ukraine needs us all to help save lives and democracy.
Some might scoff at these drones, but the only thing that matters is that they do the job
Amazing innovation and eco-friendly.
Innovation? LOL this thing is easy to manufucture. Russia has 5 times more drones than Ukraine.
Perfekt 👍
I can't wait to get my hands on one when they hit the open market, which they will.
Aussie made and supplied. Enjoy and free Ukraine. Aussie Aussie Aussie. We are with Ukraine 🇦🇺🇺🇦🤘✌️ Slava Ukraini Heroiam Slava
Brilliant. I’ve lived in Indian Springs, Nevada for several years. That is across the street from Creech AFB, home of the Predator. These are big, insanely expensive machines and I couldn’t see using them to drop grenades on people. I’m pretty sure I could take one out with a deer rifle, if it got close enough to drop a grenade on me.
You wouldn't hear it coming. I fly drones and my drone can't be heard when it is 70 metres away. I think it would easily drop a grenade on you before you even knew it was there. Especially when you are in a war zone with many other noises to mask it.
A very Aussie device, perfect for stealth hunting in the outback.
I'm kinda surprised they aren't just buying up a bunch of hobby parts and foam board and weaponizing Flite Test style designs. Or maybe they are and foam core manufacturers just aren't putting out press releases.
As a prepper, I've always fantasized about something exactly like this for small group "compound" self-defense. Very cool.
Get a life.
Very proud of Australia 🇦🇺 🦘 and admire both the GPS & set and forget technology of the drone. But to show the people involved, faces and company names may not be a good idea during a war.
Theyre bound to have found or shot down examples,so they'll hardly be secret
The more ruskies know about Aus, the less likely they are to try & mess with Aus.
One of them is the deputy prime minister, 2nd in command, Richard Marles. He's not worried lol
A justified pride in being Australian. Australia could also develop cardboard boomerangs to be used by the Ukrainians ? 10,000 advancing Ukrainians could launch these boomerangs to clobber the Russians. Then the Ukrainians could use cardboard Atlatl thrown spears, 10,000 of these cardboard spears hurled with deadly accuracy would skewer Russian troops as the Ukrainians advanced. The surviving Russians could be finished off with cardboard clubs. " And thats just the story of Homewood. When the rains tumble down in July " 🤣🤣🤣
@@_Sammy_J The less Aussies no about Ruskies the more likely they are to mess with them. The Aussies knew very little about the Turks in Gallipoli, the Japanese at Darwin, the North Koreans, the Vietnamese and the Afghans. They eventually found out 🤣🤣
that sounds ok, cheap and easy to build and effective… not costly but helpful.
What to say besides it´s a genius design. I can´t stop smiling when learning about it. Everything seems so right including the price ✨🎈🎶🥳 Let´s hope that greed does not destroy this fantastic drone. Damn it Aussies, you really are "Super duper" Good 🤣😂 ❤ from Sweden. Ps, I hope your order books are so full that you have big problems and severe headaches. Ds.
In the 1980s the RAAF developed a cardboard heli box to air-deliver supplies. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 from 🇦🇺
This sounds like better than russian military equipment lol Although it was reported russians had the worst military equipment, the cardboard story changed my mind😊😅😮😢😂
Wax cardboard are resistant to cold, rain, humidity etc.. It's used in frozen food shipment, it's pretty amazing how those thin box can hold 20kg and maintain it's strength in refrigerated container
The design ist aerodynamically highly interesting. This drone has no rudder and no elevator, only ailerons. It means it is not self stable in the air. It requires active position control via ailerons. Also curve flights are only possible in this way. For elevation there is only the possibility to vary the propeller thrust, to get faster or slower to get more or less lift. I would have used a Canard design if I had to design such a throw away drone. Rudder is not necessary, only a vertical stabilizer in order to avoid sideways flight (if not intended). If you want sideways flight control you need a rudder or a V head or tail unit.