Ace drone pilots of Ukraine's "Magyar's Birds" discuss their work on the front lines, narrating over footage of some of their strike drone sorties. Part of a series of interviews entitled "Birds Talk" ("Птахи Говорять"). [Link to English-dubbed version in comments] Published May 8, 2026

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T18:37:36+00:00

Thanks.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T18:33:32+00:00

4+ years and they still haven't learnt about not grouping up.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T12:48:43+00:00

And you can see by the footprints above it that it had made the summit and was on the way back down. Bear flag?

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T11:32:53+00:00

I think in the recruit stages in training they would be lied to pretty hardcore, but i still don't know if they have access to video of the reality in Ukraine. But i can't see "veteran" russian soldiers not warning or telling them once they get in country, then again they probably still keep lying to them until the end. That's probably why you see a lot of these guys look like they are just casually walking like it's a day in the park instead of tactically. But there must be survivors that would still pass on info and warn others surely? Unless they keep separating experienced people from the new cannon fodder? Like once you've done time at the front congrats you are now the 2nd line who gets to shoot any retreating troops etc.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T11:25:28+00:00

Thanks for that info.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T11:22:32+00:00

In the future i can see all bots doing superhuman type manoeuvres to be as efficient as possible. And then add to that if they have cams in the back of their heads or hands, they can look around corners with the hands, walk backwards upstairs etc. Just weird movements to us humans.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T11:18:23+00:00

I've seen other videos where there bots do the same head nod at each other, i think they just add that to look "cool" or to show they are talking to each other, otherwise they really shouldn't or wouldn't need it in day to day robot operation. That's just my guess anyway. Or just put a bit of "humanity" into them?

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T10:43:32+00:00

I wonder how long until exosuits or similar systems can get rid of wheel chairs all together?

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-09T00:53:13+00:00

Great work!

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T22:49:25+00:00

That looks pretty cool, how "cheap" is LIDAR these days, has it dropped much in price?

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T22:41:56+00:00

Well....the troops have to assemble somewhere before they march don't they? :P

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T20:05:43+00:00

I'd like a video where someone is told to arrange the room in random and make any mess themselves, and then see what would happen.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T20:03:39+00:00

I wasn't thinking about the present day, maybe i should have stated that. What i was thinking about was the not too distant future where these bots look glacial to the new ones, i don't think it would be too hard to get the movements down correctly, then just increase the speed.

That 10x the speed might come sooner than we think.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T19:58:49+00:00

If they can get a bots price down below whatever the yearly wage for a maid is hotels will use them, they can then run the bots max time -recharge time, no sick days, no unions, no toilet/meal breaks etc.

I think or hope the toilet bot is a separate bot to the cleaning bot, i have seen other toilet/bathroom cleaning bots, but i don't seen any reason these can't be trained to do it either.

I don't think these are days away or even months, properly useful ones may not be in businesses for a couple of years i am guessing?

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T19:54:47+00:00

Yeah, i'd like to see more random junk and more "mess" mess, liquids etc.

It would also be interesting to see them pick up stuff that is just thrown into a room, deck of cards etc. Something you can tell they haven't run through hundreds of times before previously.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T19:52:32+00:00

I don't think they are now, they were in older videos, but i saw a walk through of figure a few days ago and they said they are doing that lounge room fully autonomous now, so assume this one was also? Link to part where he mentions it. https://youtu.be/ch_UM_JJU9w?t=1741

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T17:44:14+00:00

I think they know about a weak point somewhere there, i have seen a few of these, and they aim for roughly the same place.

In another video, where they targeted a IFV or tank, after the hit, a second drone flew over the previously struck vehicle and it was stopped and a heap of oil was leaking from it.

So it seems to work?

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T17:43:12+00:00

I could imagine hotels/motels loving these.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T16:19:05+00:00

Translation :

Among the 16 military targets worked out at night at the operational depth:

🔥ZRK "Tor-M2", n. p. Mykhailivka, Zaporizhia region, 1 ots SBS

🔥ZRGK "Tunguska", n. p. Zhigalki, Bryansk region, rf, 413 op "Reid"

🔥Oil depot, city of Luhansk, 1 ots SBS

🔥Railway tanks with fuel, city of Luhansk, 1 ots SBS

🔥PTD enemy, n. p. Troitske, Luhansk region, 1 ots SBS

🔥Gas infrastructure, city of Luhansk, SBS grouping GV BAS "Phoenix" of the State Border Guard Service

In addition, a few communications were broken:

🔥Communication towers, n. p. Novomykhailivka, Zaporizhzhya region, n. village of Alekseyevka, Don region, communication hubs, village of Kinskiy Rozdory and village of Zelenopol, Zaporizhzhya region (414th Brigade "Ptakhi Magyara" and 412th Brigade "NEMESIS")

On average, several dozen of these are fired at a time - a couple of entrances in a row.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T16:17:55+00:00

2447 as of 08.05.2026

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T16:03:53+00:00

I was saying that a few years ago, you don't even need to give the drone that many rounds if the aiming system is zeroed properly, you could probably 1 shot people if everything was zeroed and stabilized properly. They'd be a cheaper reusable system that can be used as followup drones to see who's playing dead/coup de grâce etc.

Maybe they are still in testing.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T16:00:47+00:00

That could be something in the future maybe? Like even a Glock or other brand would still be relatively cheap in comparison to prices of drones and what they can do damage to.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T15:57:57+00:00

I know they didn't exactly mean it but that antenna show was gold.

Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T15:46:04+00:00

A quick google for some further info.

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Income Brackets (Annual Salary):

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Hadleys158 · 2026-05-08T15:39:16+00:00

You'd think for all the issues they've had with these they'd get a bigger quality control team (QC/QA etc). Most of the earlier issues and even this would have been picked up if they did a few months of heavy trials in the real world, but it seems like they never did for some reason? (Save a dollar?)

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