Posted on 04/03/2024 8:29:49 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
In a sharp escalation of its drone campaign targeting strategic industries deep inside Russia, Ukraine seems to have fitted Cessna-style light planes with remote controls, packed them with explosives and flown at least one of them more than 600 miles to strike a Russian factory in Yelabuga, 550 miles east of Moscow.
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The Kremlin would have been a better target....................
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I disagree. The Nazis targeted St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Firefighters worked around the clock to keep it from being burnt down, and that strengthened the British resolve more than any speech by Churchill. Symbols are powerful things. Nothing symbolic about a drone factory, but plenty symbolic about hitting so far into the interior, and damaging Russia’s ability to wage war in plain logistical terms.
Several months ago a YouTuber, Mark Felton, mentioned the potential use by Russia of Antonov AN-2s as drones. I’m sure Ukraine has some around as well. They can carry a lot more explosive than a Cessna-style plane.
I believe they were used as drones in one of the wars between two former Soviet ‘republics’.
That was exactly my point!...................😁
“Ukraine seems to have...”
Now that’s quality reporting.
“Nothing symbolic about a drone factory”
The point of attacking the factory was to interrupt Russian drone production. A predictable side effect will be a drain on Russian anti-aircraft resources that will need to be moved to protect this plant and others like it.
Is anyone paying attention to Russia’s crappy air defense?
Your statement implies they have one...I’m not sure that’s true. ;)
The psychological side of it is that it humiliates Putin because he failed to cover his own a@@ yet again. After Crocos, he doesn’t get many more strikes before he’s out.
I don’t believe they thought they needed one that far back from the frontier. They’ll have to rethink that.
Yup-I remember that guy.
Also, the planes that delivered the fatal torpedos at the Bismark were old and flyig so low that the Bismark’s guns could not calibrate low enough to shoot them down
They’re getting billions in military “aid” and all they can afford is a cessna and some explosives? Where’s the rest of the billions?
A while back a teenager landed a Cessna in the Kremlin Red Square
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20609795
Putin is no doubt keenly aware of the fact that Russian leaders rarely live to see retirement.
I get so tired of these “kamikaze drone” stories. It is a guided weapon. There is no human pilot giving his life for the Emperor in memory of the Divine Wind that saved Japan from the Korean fleet.
Every “smart” bomb or guided missile is not kamikaze” !
The technology of turning the A-22 Light Sport plane into a cruise missile is not that difficult. What was hard was putting enough fuel into it for the distance, then getting all that weight plus the “warhead” explosives off the ground.
https://www.aeroprakt.de/index.php/en/models/a-22
“Like all A22’s the UK demo plane retains adequate control response in all three axes at speeds slower than 35 mph yet it can cruise at over 100mph on 15 ltrs/hr with a range of 500 miles.” https://www.pilotmix.com/foxbat-a22
Anyone worry these drone tactics are gonna be taught to folks who would use them in the USA?
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