Still Alive After Yet Another FPV Drone Attack
Still Alive After Yet Another FPV Drone Attack
By: Giorgio Provinciali
Live from Ukraine
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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, it’s 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. We’ve 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 because fiber-optic drones can evade almost all jamming systems, while so-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. But against 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 drone’s 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 we’ve 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 now they can autonomously eliminate their targets once 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 when that death-reeling mist had swallowed everything.
However, it is precisely then that the 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. It’s 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无人机攻击后依然活着
作者: Giorgio Provinciali
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霍廷 — 最坏的情况已经过去了。我们在顿涅茨克州德鲁日基夫卡地区乘坐的汽车严重受损，以至于很长一段时间无法使用。面对FPV无人机就如同直面死亡。无论你如何努力避开它，如果它将你锁定，简直就像是在玩子弹满载的俄罗斯轮盘赌。或许是受到在前线与士兵们相处良久所学到的颠覆性机动的影响，我的反应使我们的新闻车自行偏离了道路，而我们都成功逃脱了。
（图：在事故发生后的瞬间，由阿拉的身体摄像机拍摄的静态视频捕捉到了我——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（图：我们将必要视为美德，借助微不足道的工具自助——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
汽车修理耗时比预期更长，考验了我在压力下的工程师技能。事故发生在11月7日，直到昨天，即12月3日，汽车才完全恢复功能。阿拉·佩尔代再次在保持冷静和尽力帮助方面表现得非常出色。考虑到其他两名记者及其新闻车在克拉马托尔斯克附近被俄罗斯无人机击毙，另外两人则在附近的科斯季安丁夫卡遭到FPV无人机的袭击，我们实在是非常幸运。
（图：我们车修复完成前的最后时刻——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
（图：用老式方法测试冷却系统漏水——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
反无人机系统现在效果不如从前，因为光纤无人机几乎能躲避所有干扰系统，而所谓的探测器仍缺乏扫描天空和探测无人机存在所需的准确性。射频无人机可以被拦截，专门设计用来使其失效的设备甚至可以在监视器上实时显示它们的数字视野。但反光纤无人机，挑战更大。需要主动反制措施：反无人机无人机、轻机枪、散弹枪以及基于人工视觉的新型自动瞄准系统。在前线，有些人已经用这些设备击落了不止一架无人机，因为光纤技术保护数据传输免受干扰，但并未能保护无人机的外壳免受动能武器的破坏。
（图：我录制了这段镜头，以便通过图片和自己的声音提供战场评估——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
物理障碍仍然存在，旨在使FPV无人机在靠近障碍物飞行时，这些障碍物可能由于突如其来的张力或剧烈震动而导致无人机“失明”。我们录制了所有最新报告的通道城墙和反无人机走廊是专门设计的，有瓶颈、盲点和天篷等垂直障碍物。
效仿乌克兰人在2022年的做法，俄罗斯人现在部署能喷火的无人机，能够向尼龙反无人机网投放汽油弹，最终导致其解体，留下大洞。直到最近，几乎所有无人机都是由操作者视觉操控的，但现在一旦设定了坐标且训练了控制其机载传感器的算法，它们就可以自主主消灭目标。
（图：Alla从德鲁日基夫卡一侧进入克拉马托尔斯克的画面，我们在那里拍摄的视频截图——版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
闪光、烟雾以及破坏对比度或限制直接可见度的红外/热成像系统，因此对这些无人设备的影响相对有限，除非是在厚重而弥漫的雾中。因此，俄罗斯成功向扎波罗热州推进，并在过去几个小时内向波克罗夫斯克的中央区域移动。乌克兰没有足够的火炮和反炮火来覆盖这些区域，他们的行动与我们几次一样，正是在那死寂缠绕的迷雾吞没一切之际，加入了车队。
（图：我在乌克兰顿涅茨克斯洛维扬斯克区的反无人机走廊附近 — 版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
然而，正是在那时，俄罗斯空军对我们逃离的城市进行了地毯式轰炸。
昨天，斯洛维扬斯克遭到九枚KAB滑翔炸弹的袭击，造成了人数不详的伤亡，包括至少两名儿童。袭击发生在第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克的梅日希夫斯卡社区，高吨位的滑翔炸弹袭击并摧毁了450名儿童正在上学的学校。这是附近克拉马托尔斯克中央市场的悲惨结局，前天傍晚约五点时该市场遭到两次袭击。这是德鲁日基夫卡的日常现实，以至于在那里过夜并毫发无伤的逃离是实属罕见的成就。
几天前，爆炸声如此巨大且接近，以至于让我们的心脏在胸腔中颤抖，甚至就像是出现了心外感一样。在孤立无援、没有光线、热源或互联网的一个夜晚，我们决定卸下所有防护装备，因为假如被击中，这只会延长我们的痛苦。感到自己像猎物一样令人恐惧，尤其是在超过一千多天的时间里，尽可能清晰地目睹和记录这种恐怖的影响之后。
（图：我在顿涅茨克的奥列克桑德里夫卡 — 版权所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
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