[dennisw]

Actually, that’s false. Ukraine has already received some systems capable of defeating drone strikes, they just don’t have enough to cover the whole country. Still better than Russia’s situation, since Russian has zero capable defense systems and a much larger area they need to defend.

Remember when Mathias Rust flew from Finland into Red Square? Was 1987.

On May 28, 1987, West German Private Pilot Mathias Rust managed to make international headlines by flying his Reims Cessna 172P from Helsinki Finland to a spectacular landing in Moscow’s Red Square. His flight was both an amazing achievement, and an immense humiliation to the Soviet War Machine. Indeed, Gorbachev would attempt to use the fallout from this event to purge anti Glasnost and Perestroika elements from the Soviet Military. His success may be gauged by the Anti-Glasnost Coup of August 1991, which in its own way was a last-ditch effort by the Old Guard of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to maintain the old order.

[Boogieman]

Actually, I don’t remember that but it’s pretty funny!

[DesertRhino]

“Remember when Mathias Rust flew from Finland into Red Square? Was 1987.”

His Cessna was seen, a MiG23 intercepted it and identified it as a small sport plane. He was refused permission to engage. It was allowed to proceed. It wasn’t that it wasn’t detected.

Ukraine is about to have the Special Military Operation turn into a war if they aren’t careful.