Somebody didn't hear about the anti-retreat forces.

Seems like a reasonable addition? The average person’s conception of a drone delivering something is probably an Amazon drone or something like it, even if they’ve never seen one in person. The point being made was that the drones required to deliver an e-bike to an active war zone would be much beefier.

In fairness, some of the weapons they have been strapping to their drones are also pretty heavy.

A drone can be shot down, a drone can malfunction and crash, a drone can be jammed or otherwise electronically interfered and crash, a drone can structurally fail due to quality control issues or previously unidentified damage from prior rough handling in a warzone and crash.

It's a lot better if any of those happen to a eBike, than if it happens to a person who's literally hanging below a drone flying at even just a hundred meters altitude.

Also a eBike can be folded into much more aerodynamics-friendly shapes and sizes to maximize the drone's range further, a human, not so much lol

The lighter ones can be 25-30 lbs.

The article says that one drone was shot down and one crashed under the weight of the ebike.

A soldier will be significantly heavier than an ebike. And you can risk them being shot down less than just the bike

specific power & specific energy capacity of lithium ion batteries

Why didn't the eagles simply drop Frodo an e-bike?

Like storing your bike in your pocket in Pokemon.

Yeah it's been kind of crazy how when it comes to the Ukraine war people seem to not only have zero issue posting straight-up gore on major websites, but also completely neglect to add trigger warnings. Society always cared about these things before but the rules get exempted specifically for this conflict. It could be merely because both sides here have good surveillance technology and a desire to demoralize each via information war but it also feels like a biased exception on the part of my fellow westerners sharing this stuff where there'd normally be a bunch of people reporting and censoring it. Like oh, they're Russians and Russians are always our nemeses, so it's OK because it's personal for us. Or some shit like that. As if that somehow changes or invalidates the hard facts of alienation and trauma.

That list really was hard to read.

That we still pour hot things on enemies, idk why, that made me feel nauseous. Like, we're the same brutal sadistic species as we were centuries ago. Nothing really changed.

To complete the story:

He apparently hit a landmine on the way and survived that, too, finishing the trip on a second delivered e-bike.