[DaBigNob]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

4. FPV drone hits russian soldier trying to hide in an outside toilet.

I love the music in this one! LOL very well done!

[scorpion9]

Originally Posted by DoktorDoris ↗

i think the flashing is just an interaction between the LED light, which is flashing too fast to notice, in order to save power, and the frame rate of the camera. in the same way supercars' headlights would flash sometimes on Top Gear.

Here, id like to quickly mention an interesting fact.
LED lights emit light as long as electricity flows through them. If you power your home/street lights etc with LED lights, then those lights will all flicker because our homes use alternating current. This means that the current in your LED lights drops to zero many times per second and they turn off. This is an unintentional type of flickering.
This can be very dangerous in industrial or garage settings when using power tools. You could look at a spinning saw blade and see it standing completely still.

What you are describing is an intentional flickering, to save power. Flashlights and cars use direct current from battery and in these cases, LED lights would not normal flicker. If they do, then its intentional.

RE: about car head lights flashing. I'm not so sure about it being the case of saving power though. I don't know much about cars, but it seems like an impractical use case since cars have alternators to provide continuous power most of the time. Car headlights flickering can often be a deliberate/faulty software controlled self leveling headlight calibration thing. There are some pulse modulated lights as well, but i don't know how common those are.


RE: why use pulsing lights when clearing trenches etc? Well, as others have already said, it's disorienting and makes perceiving movement more difficult. It also wont allow your eyes to adjust to either light nor dark. If the light is always on, your eyes will get used to the light within seconds. It the lights are off, the defender who has been in the dark for a while has the advantage since his eyes have adjusted to the dark.

[OmniJackal]

Those are ultra blonkers and they give even the hardest of core gamers epilepsy. Epilepsy solders are more easierer to shoot in the face.

[Roosta]

Good post, Very scientific

IMO, There's no tactical advantage with a flickering light, I fully understand what you're trying to suggest but, I still stand by what I said, a flickering light is so easy to spot rather than a constant beam & to be within operational effective range if what you're trying to suggest is true, say 10 to 15 meters in the daytime as per the video footage, you would be able to hear someone approaching quicker than you spot the light & it has any effect on you before you engage the encroaching target, if what you say is true.
I would go in heavy, grenade first, then breach under covering fire. !
Fucken stop to put my strobe light on which is mounted on my lid, helmet & wherever I look because of where it's located, that I could temporarily disorient my own team members if I turn to ask them something or direct them to do something or converse with them in any way, so it can work both ways if what you say is true, that is in a combat zone.
Maybe he was trying that specific tactic in this situation without thinking it through, as IF this was a good idea, Why Oh Why haven't we seen this being adopted as Standard Operating Procedure since the start of poo tins 3 day SMO, as I've been here from day 1 & this is the first time that I have seen this on the field, so it's not something that's being used as a specialized tactic on a daily basis as we would have seen it earlier in the hundreds of trench & foxhole clearing videos.

[obliterate800]

A lot of the guys that we see getting killed - both Ruskies and Ukes - are in their mid-40s. Some even older. That’s my age.

I was recently digging to prepare for some French drain work, and was a couple of feet deep in damp soil, pulling out rocks, removing roots, and this setting reminded me of the soldiers dying in the muddy trenches in the steppes of Ukraine, and it was chilling. One moment a guy in some town in Russia is having dinner with his family, the next moment he’s trying to hide in a foxhole while hearing the buzz of the drone that will blow his legs off and leave him dying in a no-man’s-land in Ukraine. Fucked up shit. I still can’t wrap my head around this war.

[obliterate800]

Originally Posted by Roosta ↗

A bunch of Farmers & Shop Keepers NOT only holding the invaders, but mounting incursion operations within russia

Don’t forget the billions of dollars, the intelligence and the years of training the Ukrainians got from the USA (and others). It takes a lot of preparation to beat a superior army. It’s a reality of war.

[Roosta]

They started with fuck all & held off the orcs on their own while the bureaucratic bullshit took its course & the munitions started to flow & the training took place & only then after 3 months of basic, if you were lucky, then you would be sent to reenforce the untrained who held the line.

An incredible feat considering the odds !

[AmigoBandar]

Originally Posted by obliterate800 ↗

Don’t forget the billions of dollars, the intelligence and the years of training the Ukrainians got from the USA (and others).

Don't forget the tech. Have no doubt video gaming gave the defenders an edge.

[William May]

Originally Posted by obliterate800 ↗

A lot of the guys that we see getting killed - both Ruskies and Ukes - are in their mid-40s. Some even older. That’s my age.

I was recently digging to prepare for some French drain work, and was a couple of feet deep in damp soil, pulling out rocks, removing roots, and this setting reminded me of the soldiers dying in the muddy trenches in the steppes of Ukraine, and it was chilling. One moment a guy in some town in Russia is having dinner with his family, the next moment he’s trying to hide in a foxhole while hearing the buzz of the drone that will blow his legs off and leave him dying in a no-man’s-land in Ukraine. Fucked up shit. I still can’t wrap my head around this war.

It IS horrific, and I frequently feel badly for the Russian who lose a leg and just die on camera. Did they dream of this being their end when they were 8 years old?

But then I realize why they are even there, and that they could be at home right now, but they aren't. NO ONE invited them to Ukraine. The war could end for them in 5 minutes, if they would only load up their trucks and head back to Moscow. That is ALL they would have to do, and the bloodshed would end instantly.

So the question becomes, "How long until they come to their senses and stop attacking Ukraine?"
Only Putin can answer THAT one.

[DoktorDoris]

Originally Posted by Roosta ↗

Still easier to spot.

Most tactical lights have a strobe feature to attract attention of evacuation parties & also indicate to aircraft your exact position if your down range & they are dropping ordinance or using 20mm ie in a Close Air Support Roll.
Strobes are sometimes miss used by individuals because they don't have any other light source & walking up on a trench with foxholes everywhere with a strobe light going berserk isn't a very well thought out way to engage or clear any obstacles as a combatant only need point his weapon in the direction of the covered doorway, entry point & disoriented or not, you / he / they, would still be able to get a few rounds off, however, if a grenade or flash bang is used, that's a much better way to "Disorient" your intended target or clear the obstacle as you would defiantly disorient your target & quite possibly kill or injure them, so in my view, it's more bang for your buck without ringing the doorbell with a strobing light !

In the end it's a very debatable topic BUT I would suggest that a grenade sort shit out rather than a questionable light source.

We need to get one of these lights, take it apart, use a scope to check its duty cycle frequency, then do the math with common frame rates. After that, we can compare those results with what we saw in the video. and of course also compare the actual rate of it in strobe mode, against the film.