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Footage of World's First Drone Dogfight (twitter.com/osinttechnical)
22 points by agomez314 on Feb 20, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments


Yearly at FliteFest, an RC airplane festival put on by FliteTest, we hold a dogfight/combat with hundreds of airplanes. The only difference is no munitions (excluding pesky LiPo fires)

https://youtu.be/_NFBpoD6jcw?si=YwPuus0qeq8xgj4I


I do not consider ramming to be a dogfighting tactic.


Indeed this is footage, but this is far from the world's first. Fun watch.


This is the first one that I’ve seen involving a fixed wing craft.


There have probably been a few we haven't seen. A better title might be 'first recorded footage.'


There have probably been a few recordings we haven’t seen.


Unquestionably. And?


And: “first recorded footage” might not be an accurate title either.


No, it might not. But as I said, it "might" be. Clearly accurate would be "recorded dogfight footage," even more accurate might be "recorded dogfight footage with a fixed wing craft." As another poster mentions though[1], I'm not even sure this qualifies as dog-fighting since one craft rams another. It seems like more of a kamikaze attack. The grandparent comment only states "fixed wing," but includes no suggestions or improvements. They also make the argument with what is effectively "In my experience..." which is rather poor evidence, as it fails to leave out the near infinite other possible experiences people have. Maybe they meant to say "Out of the 1000s of videos I've seen of UAVs fighting, this is the only one with a fixed wing craft," but they left that part out.

The only plausible explanation I have for the original title is clickbait.

Criticism is easy; constructive criticism is harder.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39454199


not the first, not even the fiftieth I've seen this conflict. first one I've seen Ukraine win though. with all the losing, taking down one drone is a big success for the Nazis.


Take your nonsense elsewhere, this is not a place for alt-truth. Nothing is black and white but in this conflict it's clear which side is the evil one.




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