It works though, although it doesn’t give you crosshairs on a screen to ID a position like some more purpose built ISTAR kit does, you could position the drone directly above your lead target vehicle & the rear plot on your map and work out the bearing line they’re fixed along and away you go.
It’s a slight modification of how you’d use something like a Desert Hawk or more specialist bit of kit to give you a grid.
Off the shelf kit is pretty damn good and with a bit of imagination, as we’re seeing in this conflict, pretty damn effective.
Some of the anti-regime groups in Syria were fitting explosive devices and flying them over airbase fences and into the control surfaces of Russian jets parked up.
I have yet to see a proper artillery barrage being used against a tank column
What i suspect is being done is the drones are being used as a fac and getting the route fed back to the ground assault troops. They then get to an ambush point, and use a missile or rpgs to destroy a single vehicle with little to no collateral damage
Saves re tarmaccing the road next montj after the Russia army has done one.
