The new position
Sucks ass.
Firstly it is extremely small and had only 2 bed spots, while we always with 3 people. No piloting place, for the controller, charges, the drone. Very low celling - never can be in full height. My back wasn't happy about it.
Secondly it was next to a road, asphalt one. Which os always crawled with the fpvs.
Anyway, we dug a little bit to have some space. Received the equipment, set the antenna and were combat ready.
On the good sides the position was closer to the base. So few km less to walk. Also it was somewhat higher above the sea level which gave us just perfect radio connection. Even though we had to fly longer to our recon zone, we were kind good.
I believe we were flying only for 16 hours. At the evening of the second day a fpv started lurking just above us, found the antenna and destroyed it.
Fuuck, not again.
The night was quiet, they delivered to us another antenna. At the morning we started setting up the new antenna, there were not much trees in our cable range.
When we were sitting next to our entrance the first artillery shot landed just nearby. We got lucky VERY much. We. jumped inside.
The shelling continued, they targeted us directly. Our recon drones literally found the 2 arty which were shooting us.
I was watching the streams from the recon drones, seeing that the shots fired and then in like 20 seconds - receiving them.
They were out of reach for our drones unfortunately, so they had clear ride.
Total 10 shells fired and 3 fpvs arrived. 2 of them hit the antenna again, and one seemed to hit the roof or something. Fortunately no direct hit from the shells and the didn't find the entrance.
We were considering different things, run there or there. If the drones would be opening the entrance we would be dead. And we couldn't leave coz the arty would just shell us. We survived the day.
The night was quiet.
At the morning the command ordered to continue the setup so we could work. Crazy.
Our most experienced guy went outside first(he also was our morning pilot), to check what's left from the trees after the shelling. We two followed him after few minutes carrying the equip.
We hear an FPV, an explosion. It hit our guy, we ran to him with the medkits, it broke his right leg, 2 shells in the back, 1 in the ass. He is yelling from the pain and incapable to move. We are in kinda open place where an fpv can enter not only from above, but also from a side.
I hear another fpv buzzling. I know it goes to finish the deal. We are all together, it will just kill all of us.
I grab the guy by his legs, the broken one included, and just drag through the bushes so the fpv don't have clear line of sight.
He yells, in hell of a pain, in the bushes we put him on his legs the broken one also and started running-half carrying him, deeper, where we will not be seen.
We managed to hide, the fpv lurked around and hit randomly on low battery.
He is yelling and bleeding, we don't know yet if he is dying or not. Now we are in an yellow zone, but cut from our dugout, we run not towards it but from it.
We checked his injures and body fully. No massive bleedings and he could breath fully.
We didn't have radio with us, it is generally on a wall in the dugout with external antenna.
I left the other guy to mend the injures and run back to the dugout to report.
Fortunately an NRK (our unmanned ground "cars" was close by and empty. I was told that it will be near us in 20 minutes and we must to put the injured onto it.
This is sucks. Coz if a fpv finds it it is guaranteed death.
I got some equipment, my weapon and run back.
We finished with the first aid and I asked the guy if he wants us to put him in the NRK. He was clearly understanding the risk. He said yes, coz the pain from the broken leg was hell.
The nrk arrived in the worst possible place: where he was hit. So we needed to return him back. 2 mavics(recon drones) were scouting preventing us to move. I asked the command via radio to clear the skies. They said that the mavics are ours and they went higher so we stop hearing them.
We started carrying the guy, he was leaning to my shoulder and I was half carrying him. Like 60 meters.
Pain, yell.
We put him onto the nrk and it started the evacuation very fast, through the mud roads in the fields. I heard his yell for like 500 meters. I stayed with the AK, covering against the drones to the point I lost the sight with the nrk.
Then I run to the digout and we just lay down exhausted.
The other guy who afraid of fpvs were in a big stress, but still did what he could.
The NRK evacuated successfully and in like 1 hour he was on the surgery table already.
Alive, with his leg still attached to him. Later with some things, but still.
Hell.