Description
Inside a Russian army drone laboratory: repairs, a custom-built sixteen-propeller drone and an interview with the serviceman working behind the scenes of the Russia–Ukraine war.
I'm Patrick Lancaster (https://yourbizecard.com/c/patrick-lancaster) . In this frontline report, I go inside an underground workshop that a Russian serviceman, callsign Optimist, identifies as being in the Sumy region. He shows me damaged drones being repaired, equipment being modified and an unusual heavy-lift drone assembled from several aircraft.
We discuss delivering provisions to soldiers, fibre-optic drones, batteries and how much equipment the workshop can prepare. Then I ask Optimist a different question: how does he think the war will end? He also speaks about his military service, the future and missing home.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Inside the underground drone laboratory
01:25 Meet Optimist
01:47 Repairing and modifying drones
02:37 The custom-built heavy-lift drone
03:34 Delivering provisions to soldiers
04:23 Fibre-optic drones and batteries
05:14 How many drones can the workshop prepare?
05:26 How will the war end?
06:38 My closing assessment
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