The SSU showed a new video of Operation "Spiderweb": the path of one of the FPV drones from takeoff to hitting an aircraft

So my understanding is these drones were operating autonomously, meaning they were not teleoperated through an RC connection. If this is true this is a really nice engineering success. Finding the base can be done from preprogrammed flight paths.

But then the drone needs to reliably detect the planes. That is not easy as you would have little previous data of the base and probably also of the planes, at least in their russian air force paintings. My understanding is that the planes are quite rare and are also not operated by Ukraine so quite a challenge. The drone also needs to distinguish planes that haven't been hit and planes that are already burning/damaged. Probably having training data on this specifically for the planes is even harder. Maybe one could make a generic burning object detector? Then for navigating the drone it needs to combine these infos into a map that's good for 3d navigation and precise enough to point to the weak points at the wings.

And all of that needs to be reliable enough so that it doesn't pose an overly risk for the civilian areas. And you basically have no way of really testing it out beforehand and doing development iterations.

Really well done from a technical point of view.

The first bit of the video is sped up right?