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1 posted on 07/18/2025 10:12:20 PM PDT by ganeemead
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To: ganeemead

The Russians launch roughly 800 Shahed drone copies at Ukraine pretty much every day.

Ukraine shoots down all but 5% to 15% of them.

That means about 40 to 120 Shahed drone copies can go where they are intended to go daily.

The Shahed type drones carry a warhead:

“Warhead weight 52 kg (115 lb) and 90 kg (200 lb) options”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

Kiev has about 320 square miles, so that is about one targeted 115/200 lb. drone warhead per 2.5 (320/120) square miles per day.

If one also includes the shot down drones that explode on Kiev, that might amount about one 115/200 lb. drone warhead (targeted/free fall) per square mile of Kiev per day.


2 posted on 07/18/2025 10:34:00 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ganeemead

less than 1000 drones. china is laughing.

striker drones would be the hardware manufacturing equivalent of a motorcycle.

china produced 19m+ motorcycles last year.
and they weren’t trying.

the winner of the next war will be the one who can produce the most drones.
and our manufacturing base is sorely lacking.


6 posted on 07/18/2025 11:50:34 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: ganeemead

You’re back. The only pro-Russia spammer on this site. We didn’t miss you at all.


13 posted on 07/19/2025 2:24:46 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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Did Ukraine lose their human shield, General Kellogg? I heard he spent last week in Kiev.


20 posted on 07/19/2025 4:17:10 AM PDT by BobL
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This can’t be, western MSM has long said Russia is running out of men, arms and missiles! Washing machine chips, shovels, Ghost of Kiev, ….Fools.

Russia manufactures weapons at a 7 to 1 ratio to the West. They have $75 trillion in natural resources, in need of nothing, energy, food, commodities, and most of all manufacturing facilities…all operating 24/7.

The EU has little of value, most everything is imported….little/ none commodities, energy, metals, ….and Germany’s seven auto plants ( shut down) will takes years to build weapons.


26 posted on 07/19/2025 6:37:53 AM PDT by delta7
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